Subject Leadership - Information Monitoring

New to leading a subject in a school or setting and unsure where to start? This pack walks you through how to rapidly gather information about your subject so you can plan to make relevant changes and improvements. Designed to be time-efficient and work around your classroom commitments, this pack supports busy subject leaders who have no current insight about their subject to quickly get a handle on it. It’s also useful if you are mentoring or supporting a colleagues new to subject leadership.

This full pack talks you through where to begin if you’ve just started a subject leadership role or if you’re new to a setting or subject. It’s designed to assume you’re starting with very limited knowledge of the subject you lead and will guide you through the initial monitoring process so you can find out the picture of your subject quickly, including its strengths and weaknesses.

With fully editable templates, the pack’s Initial Information Exploration Checklist looks at how to monitor step-by-step and is broken down into how you can investigate the following areas:
Documentation, such as the SIP, SEF, curriculum policy and curriculum statement
Professional dialogue, such as pupil and staff voice, and meeting with other leaders
Monitoring intent through long- and medium-term planning scrutiny
Monitoring implementation through learning walks, learning environments and resourcing
Monitoring impact through book looks and work scrutiny.

Editable, ready-made monitoring templates are included in the purchase for all of the above areas.

While on paper, this may seem overwhelming, these areas have been specifically broken down so you can cover the subject with the broad-brush approach, find out the initial information, triangulate it and use it to form a subject action plan. Not only that, but we’ve included considerations of when and how you can monitor and fit this around your teaching commitments, saving you time and supporting your workload.

Suitable for new subject leaders or subject leaders who are new to a setting or a subject will find this pack to be extremely useful, as would anyone who’s got subject leadership responsibility but is unsure of the picture of their subject and wants a starting point. Heads, SLT and curriculum leaders can also use this pack and share it with subject leaders so they can quickly get up to speed.

This pack is available for £12.50 on our website Honeyguide SLS.

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