Target audience: Aspiring middle leaders and middle leaders already undertaking the roles within the school context.

The National Middle Leaders Development Programme promotes highly effective leadership through self-evaluation and reflection, exploring the relationships between leadership, successful schools and the wider community.

As part of the professional learning continuum participants will through this programme:  

• develop understanding of the role 

• further develop their understanding of the national reform agenda

• develop their practice within the formal leadership standards

• prepare for effective engagement with bespoke elements of specialised knowledge and skills.

All participants who are accepted onto the programme:

• Lead on the development, implementation and review of a Leadership Experience Task.

• All participants attend and make a contribution towards participating in nearly all the modules of the programme.

• All participants review their own leadership and develop the aspects they identify themselves for improvement, in line with Professional Standards for Teaching and Leadership.

Event details:

This development programme will consist of:

• Module 1 - What is effective Middle Leadership in the current context? – to include standards, National Mission, Schools as Learning Organisations.

• Module 2 - Leading Pedagogy, delivering effective teaching and learning – to include effective monitoring practices and analysis of monitoring outcomes. Accountability, roles and responsibilities of self and others.

• Module 3 - Management; strategies, structures and systems. To include planning for improvement and management of resources both financial and human.

• Module 4 - Achieving more through effective collaboration. To include wellbeing and effective engagement of and working with all stakeholders and external agencies.

• Module 5 - Evaluation and Impact. Participants present to peer group of how they have developed as a leader and how their actions demonstrate impact on standards.

In addition, each participant will undertake a leadership experience task utilising the most recent research findings in developing their leadership skills.

Registration will be through a national booking system, which will distribute completed forms to the respective region in which the participant is employed. This centralising of registration will allow national data to be collected and the most appropriate arrangements put in place for each cohort.

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Closing date 13/10/2023

Janet Waldron Interim Lead for Middle Leader Development waldronj11@hwbcymru.net

Rob Phillips Interim Lead for Leadership phillipsr145@hwbcymru.net

Hazel Faulkner Business Support Officer hazel.faulkner@partneriaeth.cymru