Sentences with phrase «headteachers need»

This isn't simply a repetition of education secretary Nicky Morgan's mantra that excellent headteachers need to go to challenging schools.

Headteachers need to actively encourage efficient techniques such as whole - class feedback and self - or peer - assessment, to ensure their staff feel empowered to use these assessment approaches, Sherrington advised.

Headteachers need to ensure there is space and time for these interactions to occur.

«Headteachers need to feel reassured not only that this is allowed but that it's essential.

The research hasn't pleased everyone, however, and teaching unions have shot back, saying headteachers need to make it a «primary aim» not to fire anyone when improving a school.

«Teachers and headteachers need to be able to concentrate on the roles that they are best equipped to perform, roles that they trained for, roles that made them want to become teachers in the first place.

Speaking at the Institute of School Business Leadership (ISBL) conference in Cardiff's City Hall, the education secretary said: «Teachers and headteachers need to be able to concentrate on the roles that they are best equipped to perform, roles that they trained for, roles that made them want to become teachers in the first place.

The letter signed by 31 state headteachers says: «The Conservative party tells us that it believes that to ensure a high - quality education for all pupils, headteachers need to have control over how they run their school.

Not exact matches

We also need to give headteachers back control over discipline in their schools.

Participants took part in a real - time electronic poll which explored their views on a series of issues relating to their profession: Among the results were: over three quarters of BME teachers considered themselves to be ambitious, yet stated they are being held back by racial discrimination, and the attitude of senior colleagues; nearly two - thirds (62 %) of BME teachers felt their school or college was not seriously committed to addressing their professional development needs and aspirations; 63 % of BME teachers said their employers were not committed to ensuring their mental and physical wellbeing at work, with workload cited as the single most negative factor impacting on their wellbeing; the vast majority of BME teachers felt the Government does not respect and value teachers and does not understand the day to day realities of teaching (99 %); three quarters of BME teachers said they were not confident that their headteacher will make professional and fair decisions regarding their future pay.

Half of headteachers said the pressure on schools to provide help to ethnic minority pupils has increased in the last year and 65 % stated that current resources were insufficient to meet this need.

«In a context of unmanageable and unsustainable levels of teacher workload, the Government will need to demonstrate that its proposals will bring downward pressure on the workload and bureaucratic burdens placed on primary teachers and headteachers and enable them to focus on their core responsibilities for teaching and leading teaching and learning.»

«There needs to be publication of headteachers» pay and rewards, proper scrutiny by local authorities and a detailed review of the system by the School Teachers» Review Body.

John Tomsett, Headteacher of Huntington School in York, commented on the need for more flexibility: «A third of our 100 + teachers are part - timers.

A MAT will need to fill only one pre-eminent leadership position of executive headteacher or chief executive.

But probably his most controversial point was that this infrastructure removes the need for governing bodies and headteachers.

Headteacher Jane Johnson explains the need to work closely with parents so they understand what is expected of them, what is going on in the classroom and how they can support their child's learning at home.

You will need to insert the photo and name of your own headteacher on slides 11 and 12!

When I took over as Headteacher the school was on a 3 year downward trend - something needed to change.

Among the honoured include: CEO at Burnt Mill Academy Trust, Helena Mills (CBE) for services to education; Margaret Sumner (OBE), headteacher based in Tottenham for services to special educational needs and disabilities; and Barnsley headteacher, Julie Anne Allen (MBE), for her services to education.

You will need to be led by an outstanding headteacher with at least three years» experience and outstanding senior and middle leaders with capacity to support others.

Headteachers will be seriously looking at what is good value for money and worth having in schools, with effective schemes of work and the use of technology being ever - more important as schools also need to balance reduction with staying relevant to today's society.»

Applicants will receive a bespoke programme, including briefings relating to the UK's education system and the international education market, business training and advice on public relations, marketing and sales, access to BESA's research database, market intelligence reports on education industry suppliers» market confidence and sales and briefing sessions with headteachers and curriculum subject experts to gain insights on schools» resourcing needs.

In particular, governing boards need to be made more fully aware of the standards, especially for recruitment and performance management, and those headteachers who are anxious about what the aspirational character of the standards will mean need to be reassured and helped to understand the purpose and context.

Keates added: «A coherent Government — wide strategy is needed which secures effective downward pressure to the workload and working hours which are driving teachers and headteachers out of the profession.»

It was clear that for some school business managers there is a sense of vulnerability and acknowledgement that they need to increase awareness of what they do beyond the headteacher to the governing body and teaching staff.

Marcus Sutcliffe, managing director of Elite Systems, discusses how modular construction can meet the need for school expansion Britain is currently experiencing a distinct shortage of school places, and headteachers and local authorities around the country are looking for ways to accommodate additional intake — without breaking the bank.

The most controversial point that Fielder will be making is that this infrastructure removes the need for governing bodies and headteachers.

The great comprehensive school headteacher knows that a «one size fits all» model of secondary education will never deliver the range of success that their youngsters need.

Many of the challenges faced by headteachers and senior staff today revolve around the need to satisfy a growing number of requirements that may not be met through the national curriculum.

This ensures that the needs of all pupils are fulfilled, as assistant headteacher for inclusion, Natalie Franklin - Hackett, elucidates.

It could encourage parents to visit the school their child has been accepted to and speak to the headteacher, class teacher, and SENCO if their child has any additional needs.

Jayne Mullane, headteacher at Mersey Vale Primary School in Stockport, remarks: «We need to listen to parents to find out what information they want to receive.

Blaming a lack of improvement in the worst - performing areas of the country on a «lack of political will», Sir Michael will say there is «urgent need» for a London challenge - style approach by MPs, council bosses and headteachers «to raise secondary school standards in towns across the north and midlands».

Not only will you have an exodus of headteachers, but you will have mass resignations from governing bodies, at the very time when schools need experienced people who ask the important question: why?

Alison Beane, the executive headteacher of the Solent Academies Trust, which is a group of three special needs schools in Portsmouth, was co-opted at the last election in October.

A Kent headteacher has told parents they will need to pay for their child to be part of the school's sports team due to budget cuts.

Alan, my Headteacher speaks regularly about the need for college assessment to be accurate and reliable.

The headteachers of 250 state schools in West Sussex wrote to the prime minister Theresa May in October last year to say they needed # 20 million in emergency funding.

You will need to have support from your headteacher or relevant member of SLT to apply.

Schools Minister Nick Gibb said: «We trust headteachers to make decisions about the right teaching staff they need for their schools — that is why we have made it easier for state - funded schools to employ teachers who have a broader range of qualifications, experience and skills.

Simon Knight, deputy headteacher at Frank Wise School in Banbury, Oxfordshire, said the recommendations so far do not «appear to fully consider those pupils with the most complex needs.

Teachers need to notify their headteacher that they wish to be assessed against the standards and the outcome of performance management reviews will be used to make this assessment.

It looks like a busy five years for Nicky Morgan: 500 new free schools, an extra 17,500 maths and physics teachers needed, new headteachers for schools «requiring improvement», and the academisation of failing and coasting secondary schools.

We need to find more than 2,000 new headteachers every year just to stand still.

Ahead of a speech to headteachers at the NAHT union's annual conference in Liverpool, she warned that the government «is making it impossible for our schools to keep the leadership they need».

Schools Week understands the eight regional schools commissioners (RSCs) are in talks over improved access to specialists who will «offer specific advice when they need it», following criticism that certain parts of the education system are not represented on the headteacher boards.

Simon Knight, deputy headteacher at the Frank Wise special school in Oxfordshire, said he thought it was «coincidental» that the review of assessment of pupils with lower attainment by special school headteacher Diane Rochford had been announced during the passage of the bill, and said alternative and special needs provision should also be «part of the debate».

He said headteachers might need to ask a premium of # 500 a year for activities at a school which go «above and beyond» the core business of lessons and staff.

David Pedwell, executive headteacher of Bryn Celyn and Oakfield Primary Schools in Cardiff, told BBC Radio Wales that «no - one disputes the fact that we need to improve standards».