Developing Middle Leadership Skills Through Virtual Training

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About Incyte International Limited:

Incyte International was formed over 15 years ago to help and support schools. We have since built a significant reputation for providing high quality support to schools in the UK and overseas. We have over 100 accredited high-quality consultants providing a wide range of specialist support services enabling us to cover all aspects of school improvement for early years, primary, secondary, special schools, and FE. This body of consultants includes former HMI, current inspectors in the UK and the Middle East, contract consultants with the DfE, headteachers and subject specialists. We pride ourselves on providing support through a collegiate approach using high quality mentoring and coaching skills to ensure personnel in schools gather the skills needed to operate successful schools.

The directors’ have significant experience in organisational improvement worldwide and are well respected by key people in the field of lifelong learning.

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CAROLINE MCKEE

Caroline Mckee has significant experience in education in a range of countries including the Middle East. She has led training in all of these countries and fully understands their contexts. She is an experienced lead inspector and has been involved in over 300 inspections in England. As a consultant, she has worked as a school improvement partner supporting schools to improve and helped an IB school in Dubai to be identified as the first IB school to gain an outstanding grade.

Caroline Mckee has significant experience in education in a range of countries including the Middle East. She has led training in all of these countries and fully understands their contexts. She is an experienced lead inspector and has been involved in over 300 inspections in England. As a consultant, she has worked as a school improvement partner supporting schools to improve and helped an IB school in Dubai to be identified as the first IB school to gain an outstanding grade.

Caroline has a deep interest in developing middle leaders as they are the engine room and key drivers for all schools. Crucial to the role are skills in self-evaluation, effective monitoring and ensuring that there is a key focus on developing the teaching skills of their staff. She is experienced in a grass roots approach to developing teaching and learning in schools, and her work is to empower the learner whether that be student, teacher, or leader. She is skilled in developing leaders’ abilities to get the best out of their staff using emotional intelligence, knowledge, patience, and good humour.

Programme Overview

 

Topic
Middle leadership skills
Delivery Model An eight-hour blended, programme, comprising of four, 2-hour sessions over 5 weeks of virtual F2F training and inter-sessional tasks and post-course application/reflection
Cost
  • AED 1260 per delegate including VAT
  • Booking Deadline: Wednesday 31st March 2021
  • Discounts available for group school bookings of five or more delegates

 

Dates & Times*
Face to Face Online sessions 8-hour programme breakdown
All F2F sessions will take place at 3.00pm to 5:00pm via Zoom for two hours

  • Session 1: Wednesday 14th April 2021
  • Session 2: Wednesday 21st April 2021
  • Session 3: Wednesday 28th April 2021
  • Session 4: Wednesday 5th May 2021
  • 8 hours online facilitation
  • inter-sessional tasks and post-course application/reflection. Amount of time needed will not exceed 4 hours but will vary upon delegates’ time schedules for lesson observations.
* Times are Dubai Time – 3:00 to 5:00pm

 

Programme Details:
Session 1

Exploring the difference between leadership and management

  • What is it that effective leaders do?
  • Knowing yourself and understanding your strengths and weaker attributes

Understanding the school context and how that impacts on your leadership

Developing the attributes needed for good leaders

  • Fostering teamwork
  • Motivating others, managing meetings, setting examples

Overcoming issues within your own context and managing up and down
Session 2

Effective monitoring

  • Exploring the aspects that need monitoring
  • Understanding your internal and external data

The importance of effective and honest self-evaluation

  • How to triangulate evidence
  • Exploring the effectiveness of teaching and learning within your department
  • Ensuring consistency of judgements

Interim activities, joint work scrutiny and reflection on leadership styles and planning personal targets for improvement.
Session 3

Effective lesson observations, protocol, and behaviours.

  • Use of videos to ensure accurate observations and to practice a professional dialogue with a colleague
  • Managing difficult conversations
  • How to have an effective professional dialogue

Interim activities to include joint lesson observations and delivering professional dialogues.
Session 4

Data analysis and using this to drive departmental improvement

  • Assessment and how this will drive the curriculum, teaching and learning
  • Ensuring that assessment informs the progress that your students make
  • The different forms of assessment

Final reflection and action planning for your next steps

 

Who Should Attend?
  • Secondary phase middle and aspiring middle leaders
  • Subject or phase co-ordinators
Intended Outcomes
  • A clearer view of how to evaluate accurately
  • An understanding of the type of evidence that middle leaders need to demonstrate effectiveness.
  • A clearer understanding of how to monitor and evaluate effectively.
  • An understanding of the importance of validation when securing judgements about performance.
  • Effective lesson observation skills and an understanding of how to have high quality professional discussions to improve teaching and learning
  • A stronger strategy to identify underachievement amongst groups of pupils.
  • A clearer view of how innovative leadership can help to move the school forwards.

 

Aims of this Course:

To give middle leaders the confidence to take their staff with them on the road to excellence through skilful use of personal traits and a better understanding of their own strengths and the barriers that they face.

 

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Testimonials

“The buzz that you created with your fantastic coaching and advice is very much alive. Happy to have had this experience and I’m looking forward to the next visit.”

Ajman Academy

 

“I want to say thank you. I had an excellent experience with both trainers and appreciate your guidance and professionalism. You really helped us to focus and prioritize our actions of the next academic year.”

Shona Tait, Deputy Head, PYP Coordinator

 

“We were reflecting with the Grade Level Leaders, House Leaders and Leaders of Learning today on the success of the program. It was routinely mentioned as a big high for people. You were instrumental in making that happen, thank you!”

Brad Augustine, ISHMC Vietnam