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Helpful time investments for HoDs at this time of year:
1. Make an at-a-glance sheet of which teachers teach which groups, including split classes.
2. Print the timetable for the department: 1 copy for the office wall and 1 for the back of your planner. It's *really* helpful
Helpful time investments for HoDs at this time of year:
1. Make an at-a-glance sheet of which teachers teach which groups, including split classes.
2. Print the timetable for the department: 1 copy for the office wall and 1 for the back of your planner. It's *really* helpful
3. Beg, borrow or steal a whiteboard for the office. A3 paper on wall will do at a push. Put a list of key dates for the term on it. Parent's evenings, meetings, data entries, deadlines. Wipe them away as you get them done. It will quickly become a touchstone, so get it right!
4. Write your own version of that list, for when things need to be done across the year. Do the electronically so you can easily update it next year. @GarryLittlewood is the genius behind our one, so take a close look at this:
5. Create email folders for anything 'operational' that relates to the whole school and the dept. For eg: electronic copy of the timetable and instructions from academic deputy head can go in Dept, latest Covid control update in whole school. Easy reference point later.
6. Focus on operational issues for a couple weeks, Get the systems, routines etc right, and reduce barriers to your team teaching well, day to day. Chase up any maintenance that the site team hasn't got to over the summer. Then get into the strategic, developmental stuff.
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