Full Description
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.
Contents
1. Great year leadership 2. Pastoral care 3. Student wellbeing 4. Tackling behaviour and engaging learners 5. Raising aspirations 6. Driving attendance 7. Celebrating achievement 8. Safeguarding - everybody's responsibility 9. Bullying and cyberbullying 10. Dealing with major events 11. Working to drive progress 12. Tackling disadvantage 13. Parental engagement 14. Leading from the middle 15. Vision and ethos 16. Managing yourself 17. Managing your team 18. Managing workload 19. Developing leaders of the future
