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Heightened expectations, stronger leadership and ambition
High expectations, high quality leadership and confident, ambitious schools
Good leadership is critical to a successful school. Success comes from aiming high with the clear vision, ethos and communication that good leadership brings. We will act to support high quality school leadership and inspired, ambitious school communities.
Excellence standard to set new levels for ambition and inspection
HMIE has:
- established a new 6 point Quality Indicator scale which institutes a new excellence standard and is being used in school inspections
- defined the key characteristics of excellent schools and will publish these in early 2006
Leadership development, supported by the Hunter Foundation, to foster talent
We are:
- establishing a broad programme of leadership development, to give access to world class thinking on school leadership and to share experiences of school leadership from around the world
- enhancing leadership development opportunities for senior school and local authority staff by continuing support for Columba 1400 and potential pilot projects with local authorities
- establishing mentoring and coaching programmes with the Scottish Leadership Foundation for leaders and potential leaders
Schools of Ambition programme to bring about transformation
We have:
- selected the first 20 Schools of Ambition, to bring about a step change in ambition and achievement, with others to follow
Standard for Headship and selection procedures to ensure all headteachers are prepared for school leadership
We have:
- revised the Standard for Headship to reflect shared leadership priorities in education
We are:
- establishing new routes to achieve the Standard for Headship and have issued a formal consultation
- consulting on more rigorous headteacher appointment procedures
Revitalised Initial Teacher Education ( ITE)
We have:
- published the report of the review of ITE and the Ministerial response outlining clear challenges for universities and local authorities
Enhanced Continuing Professional Development ( CPD) to support confident, able teachers
We have:
- supported the National CPD Co-ordinator by establishing a dedicated team
We are:
- delivering CPD opportunities by developing the framework for teachers during the early years of their career to build on the success of the induction scheme
- promoting further the chartered teacher programme by exploring the potential of a development module to help teachers make informed career choices before joining the programme or at other stages in their career
- promoting opportunities for joint training for teachers, social workers, community learning/development workers and health workers as part of our plans to revitalise ITE
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