Specialising Your Career Pathway: Teacher to Middle Leader

NITE's free professional development series offers short, impactful sessions led by experienced educators to support the professional growth of teachers and school leaders.

This session will focus on how to lead on small scale development projects in school, in order to get noticed as a potential middle leader.

After considering ways in which you can get involved with driving school improvement, we will cover a variety of systems for effective project management and discuss how to successfully implement change in your department or phase. We will analyse examples of development projects of various scales and consider how effective they are in meeting their aims.

The session will culminate with a discussion of the key actions attendees could take now to prepare themselves for leadership.

It is suitable for:

Trainee teachers - ECTs - recently qualified teachers - teachers with 1-3 years’ experience

Facilitator: Katie Jump

Katie is a module lead on the MA in Education for NITE. She currently teaches on the Expert Teaching pathway and supervises those completing action research projects for their MA. After a successful career in Primary Education, Katie moved into Higher Education and Initial Teacher Training in 2015. Since then, she has taught undergraduates and postgraduates across a range of courses including SCITT courses, PGCE with QTS qualifications and NITE’s Master’s degree in Education. Katie also writes articles on issues in Primary Education for the Chartered College of Teachers.

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