How to Be a Phenomenal Head of Year!

How to Be a Phenomenal Head of Year!
Author: Josh Leenen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2019-07-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9781086000313

Part instruction manual, part personal coach, part self-help guide, this book will give you the confidence to realise your ambitions and potential in your role as Head of Year. Are you a new Head of Year and looking for practical advice and tips to help you hit the ground running?Worried about your new job and need a little reassurance?Full of ideas and keen to make plans for your school? The author of How to be a Phenomenal Head of Year sets out clear and practical advice to support you in your challenging job, moving you quickly and clearly through the basics of your role and guiding you to become a phenomenal Head of Year.This book offers reassurance and comfort as well as practical suggestions for things like how to have conversations with parents or how to manage your work-life balance.This book coaches and inspires you to reflect on your own practice and school environment and work proactively, positively and with confidence. The writer encourages you to find your own path, reflect on your values and vision, and supports you with practical advice and lots of tips for success. This book offers support and reassurance with the difficulties you might encounter in your role as Head of Year. What do I do if my department isn't supportive of my new role? How do I work effectively with families? How do I have difficult conversations? What can I do for a pupil who is struggling? The book supports you with these questions and many more by:demystifying areas often seen as intimidating or complex, Building your confidence in your ability and skills,Outlining strategies for dealing with common issues, Directly addressing your anxieties,Encouraging your personal and professional reflection.You can read this practical book from cover to cover or dip into it whenever you want support or advice. Complete the reflections as you go to help you thrive as a phenomenal Head of Year and enjoy this helpful and encouraging companion as you excel in your new role. 'I wish I'd read this before starting my job!''This book would have made my interview much easier... and the first few months - come to think of it.''A great start to my life as a pastoral leader: thank you!'

How to Be a Head of Year

How to Be a Head of Year
Author: Josh E Leenen
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2021-10-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781692817077

Part instruction manual, part personal coach, part self-help guide, this book will give you the confidence to realise your ambitions and potential in your role as Head of Year. Are you a new Head of Year and looking for practical advice and tips to help you hit the ground running?Worried about your new job and need a little reassurance?Full of ideas and keen to make plans for your school? The author of How to be a Phenomenal Head of Year sets out clear and practical advice to support you in your challenging job, moving you quickly and clearly through the basics of your role and guiding you to become a phenomenal Head of Year. This book offers reassurance and comfort as well as practical suggestions for things like how to have conversations with parents or how to manage your work-life balance. This book coaches and inspires you to reflect on your own practice and school environment and work proactively, positively and with confidence. The writer encourages you to find your own path, reflect on your values and vision, and supports you with practical advice and lots of tips for success. This book offers support and reassurance with the difficulties you might encounter in your role as Head of Year. What do I do if my department isn't supportive of my new role? How do I work effectively with families? How do I have difficult conversations? What can I do for a pupil who is struggling? This book supports you with these questions and many more by: - demystifying areas often seen as intimidating or complex, - Building your confidence in your ability and skills, - Outlining strategies for dealing with common issues, - Directly addressing your anxieties, Encouraging your personal and professional reflection. You can read this practical book from cover to cover or dip into it whenever you want support or advice. Complete the reflections as you go to help you thrive as a phenomenal Head of Year and enjoy this helpful and encouraging companion as you excel in your new role. 'I wish I'd read this before starting my job!' 'This book would have made my interview much easier... and the first few months - come to think of it.''A great start to my life as a pastoral leader: thank you!'

Succeeding as a Head of Year

Succeeding as a Head of Year
Author: Jon Tait
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2020-01-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1472963393

'Brimming with useful ideas from start to finish... As usual, Jon's knowledge, wisdom and passion for all things education shine through. A brilliant read.' - Pete Jackson, Assistant Headteacher, @PeteJackson32 Looking to develop your skills so you can be successful as a head of year? Striving to get into pastoral leadership as a middle leader? Then Succeeding as a Head of Year is the ultimate guide for you! Adopting an easy-to-follow, chronological approach, Jon Tait takes you through everything you need to know to be an outstanding head of year: · Applying for your first post · Navigating interviews · Leading a team of form tutors · Managing student behaviour · Working with parents · Supporting specific year groups With tips on finding the right post and sailing through the interview process and advice on day-to-day practice and challenges, this is the ideal compendium for navigating this role. Written by an experienced pastoral leader and including case studies with aspiring, current and former middle leaders, this book is filled with practical, honest and open guidance to help you succeed as a head of year.

The Head of Year's Handbook

The Head of Year's Handbook
Author: Michael Power
Publisher:
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2020-06-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1913063240

The Head of Year's Handbook is the companion to one of the most rewarding yet challenging roles within a school. It looks in depth at what a head of year does on a day-to-day basis, the challenges you will face, and provides strategies and ideas to improve student outcomes and improve your own leadership ability. The book is suitable for those just starting out as a head of year or those who have been in the role for a number of years and need some inspiration or up-to-date strategies. It takes into account current issues facing your students, and often society as a whole, including cyberbullying, resilience and mental health, dealing with major traumatic events, while also helping you to build your leadership and management skills. Most importantly the text focuses on student well-being and engagement, your own work-life balance, and the need to celebrate achievement.

Succeeding as a Head of Year

Succeeding as a Head of Year
Author: Jon Tait
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2020-01-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1472963385

Looking to develop your skills so you can be successful as a head of year? Striving to get into pastoral leadership as a middle leader? Then Succeeding as a Head of Year is the ultimate guide for you! Adopting an easy-to-follow, chronological approach, Jon Tait takes you through everything you need to know to be an outstanding head of year, from applying for your first post to leading a team of form tutors, managing behaviour, working with parents and supporting specific year groups. With tips on finding the right post and sailing through the interview process and advice on day-to-day practice and challenges, this is the ideal compendium for navigating this role. Written by an experienced pastoral leader and including 60-second vlogs and case studies with aspiring, current and former middle leaders, this book is filled with practical, honest and open guidance to help you succeed as a head of year.

The Head of Year's Handbook

The Head of Year's Handbook
Author: Michael Power
Publisher: Practical Teaching
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Educational counseling
ISBN: 9781913063214

Is it possible to achieve a good work-life balance as a head of year while still being effective and offering the best pastoral care for your students that you can? This book shows you how. The Head of Year's Handbook is the companion to one of the most rewarding yet challenging roles within a school. It looks in depth at what a head of year does on a day-to-day basis, the challenges you will face, and provides strategies and ideas to improve student outcomes and improve your own leadership ability. The book is suitable for those just starting out as a head of year or those who have been in the role for a number of years and need some inspiration or up-to-date strategies. It takes into account current issues facing your students, and often society as a whole, including cyberbullying, resilience and mental health, dealing with major traumatic events, while also helping you to build your leadership and management skills. Most importantly the text focuses on student well-being and engagement, your own work-life balance, and the need to celebrate achievement.

The Last Lecture

The Last Lecture
Author: Randy Pausch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Cancer
ISBN: 9780340978504

The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.

Teacher Toolkit

Teacher Toolkit
Author: Ross Morrison McGill
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2015-10-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1472910869

'This is a book by a teacher still in the classroom after 20 years. Want to know how to survive? Read this book; it's fizzing with ideas.' Ty Goddard, Co-founder of the Education Foundation A compendium of teaching strategies, ideas and advice, which aims to motivate, comfort, amuse and above all reduce your workload, by bestselling author Ross Morrison McGill, aka @TeacherToolkit. Teacher Toolkit is a must-read for newly qualified and early career teachers and will support you through your first five years in the primary or secondary classroom. It is packed with advice, tips and ideas for all aspects of teaching practice, from lesson planning to marking and assessment, behaviour management and differentiation. Ross believes that becoming a teacher is one of the best decisions you will ever make, but after more than two decades in the classroom, he knows that it is not an easy journey! He shares countless anecdotes from his own experience, from disastrous observations to marking in the broom cupboard, and offers a wealth of strategies to help you become a true Vitruvian teacher: one who is resilient, intelligent, innovative, collaborative and aspirational. Complete with a bespoke Five Minute Plan in every chapter, photocopiable templates, QR codes, a detachable bookmark and beautiful illustrations by renowned artist Polly Nor, Teacher Toolkit is everything you need to ensure you are the best teacher you can be, whatever the new policy or framework. Ross is the bestselling author of Mark. Plan. Teach., Just Great Teaching and 100 Ideas for Secondary Teachers: Outstanding Lessons. Vitruvian teaching will help you survive your first five years: Year 1: Be resilient (surviving your NQT year) Year 2: Be intelligent (refining your teaching) Year 3: Be innovative (taking risks) Year 4: Be collaborative (working with others) Year 5: Be aspirational (moving towards middle leadership) Start working towards Vitruvian today.

The Making of a Manager

The Making of a Manager
Author: Julie Zhuo
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2019-03-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0735219567

Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller! Congratulations, you're a manager! After you pop the champagne, accept the shiny new title, and step into this thrilling next chapter of your career, the truth descends like a fog: you don't really know what you're doing. That's exactly how Julie Zhuo felt when she became a rookie manager at the age of 25. She stared at a long list of logistics--from hiring to firing, from meeting to messaging, from planning to pitching--and faced a thousand questions and uncertainties. How was she supposed to spin teamwork into value? How could she be a good steward of her reports' careers? What was the secret to leading with confidence in new and unexpected situations? Now, having managed dozens of teams spanning tens to hundreds of people, Julie knows the most important lesson of all: great managers are made, not born. If you care enough to be reading this, then you care enough to be a great manager. The Making of a Manager is a modern field guide packed everyday examples and transformative insights, including: * How to tell a great manager from an average manager (illustrations included) * When you should look past an awkward interview and hire someone anyway * How to build trust with your reports through not being a boss * Where to look when you lose faith and lack the answers Whether you're new to the job, a veteran leader, or looking to be promoted, this is the handbook you need to be the kind of manager you wish you had.

The Professor Is In

The Professor Is In
Author: Karen Kelsky
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2015-08-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0553419420

The definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post-docs and anyone else eager to get tenure or turn their Ph.D. into their ideal job Each year tens of thousands of students will, after years of hard work and enormous amounts of money, earn their Ph.D. And each year only a small percentage of them will land a job that justifies and rewards their investment. For every comfortably tenured professor or well-paid former academic, there are countless underpaid and overworked adjuncts, and many more who simply give up in frustration. Those who do make it share an important asset that separates them from the pack: they have a plan. They understand exactly what they need to do to set themselves up for success. They know what really moves the needle in academic job searches, how to avoid the all-too-common mistakes that sink so many of their peers, and how to decide when to point their Ph.D. toward other, non-academic options. Karen Kelsky has made it her mission to help readers join the select few who get the most out of their Ph.D. As a former tenured professor and department head who oversaw numerous academic job searches, she knows from experience exactly what gets an academic applicant a job. And as the creator of the popular and widely respected advice site The Professor is In, she has helped countless Ph.D.’s turn themselves into stronger applicants and land their dream careers. Now, for the first time ever, Karen has poured all her best advice into a single handy guide that addresses the most important issues facing any Ph.D., including: -When, where, and what to publish -Writing a foolproof grant application -Cultivating references and crafting the perfect CV -Acing the job talk and campus interview -Avoiding the adjunct trap -Making the leap to nonacademic work, when the time is right The Professor Is In addresses all of these issues, and many more.