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The Seven Deadly Demons of Deputy Headship

Michael Edwards

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Working in schools with like-minded colleagues and young people is the best job in the world. However, there is enough tension, anxiety and hard work in the role of senior leader, without fending off attacks from the tiresome adversaries discussed in these pages.

Whether you are a career deputy or have your sights set on Headship, this short book will help you identify and defeat some of those demons that battle with us in our capacity as senior leaders.

Magpie some of the ideas and fend off The Wrecker, The Wretch, The Mangler, The Curdler, The Challenger, The Nobbler and The Gorgon.

You have been appointed. You have proved your worth as an excellent teacher; you have made the presentation to governors and the local authority, and completed whatever in-tray task you were assigned at the interview and your references speak highly of your qualities.

Deep breath!

Now believe in it. If you are like 99% of newly appointed leaders there is some part of you that thinks you got in more by luck than skill, that if they really knew about your insecurities and doubts, if they had seen that particularly galling meeting with Parent A, or that mistake you made with curriculum report B, then they probably wouldn’t have appointed you. This is not the case!

A Head looks to appoint a Deputy who will support them in their role, someone they can work closely with and who has potential to grow their school. Most importantly he/she will want you as a partner. It is like marriage without the washing up.

This short book has been written from the heart in order to support you on your appointment. It doesn’t tell you how to write a department budget, or how to produce a top notch school development plan, there are plenty of books out there to help with that. It identifies some of those major demons which lurk in staff rooms, offices and the processes that encompass school leadership. It enriches the armour of newly appointed leaders and replenishes that of more established colleagues who I hope will also find something of interest in its pages.

After all why reinvent the wheel?

Language: English

Pages: 84

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Strawberry Pirate Ltd

Release: February 26, 2013

The Seven Deadly Demons of Deputy Headship

Michael Edwards

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Working in schools with like-minded colleagues and young people is the best job in the world. However, there is enough tension, anxiety and hard work in the role of senior leader, without fending off attacks from the tiresome adversaries discussed in these pages.

Whether you are a career deputy or have your sights set on Headship, this short book will help you identify and defeat some of those demons that battle with us in our capacity as senior leaders.

Magpie some of the ideas and fend off The Wrecker, The Wretch, The Mangler, The Curdler, The Challenger, The Nobbler and The Gorgon.

You have been appointed. You have proved your worth as an excellent teacher; you have made the presentation to governors and the local authority, and completed whatever in-tray task you were assigned at the interview and your references speak highly of your qualities.

Deep breath!

Now believe in it. If you are like 99% of newly appointed leaders there is some part of you that thinks you got in more by luck than skill, that if they really knew about your insecurities and doubts, if they had seen that particularly galling meeting with Parent A, or that mistake you made with curriculum report B, then they probably wouldn’t have appointed you. This is not the case!

A Head looks to appoint a Deputy who will support them in their role, someone they can work closely with and who has potential to grow their school. Most importantly he/she will want you as a partner. It is like marriage without the washing up.

This short book has been written from the heart in order to support you on your appointment. It doesn’t tell you how to write a department budget, or how to produce a top notch school development plan, there are plenty of books out there to help with that. It identifies some of those major demons which lurk in staff rooms, offices and the processes that encompass school leadership. It enriches the armour of newly appointed leaders and replenishes that of more established colleagues who I hope will also find something of interest in its pages.

After all why reinvent the wheel?

Language: English

Pages: 84

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: Strawberry Pirate Ltd

Release: February 26, 2013

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