Subject Leadership and School Improvement

Hugh Busher, Alma Harris

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2000
• Print ISBN: 9780761966210, 9780761966203
• eBook ISBN: 9781446237205
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Pedagogía
• Subtopic: Administración de la educación

Curriculum and subject leadership in schools has recently gained substantial attention from both researchers and policy-makers. The Teacher Training Agency (TTA) has reinforced the importance of subject leadership in school improvement, proposing a new measure of such leadership competence through the creation of national subject leader standards (NPQSL).

Subject Leadership and School Improvement reflects critically on the work of subject and curriculum leaders especially in schools in England and Wales, that is, those within the policy framework of The National Curriculum and the Teacher Training Agency. The book debates the functions of subject leaders in primary and secondary schools, using current research-based conceptual frameworks, and considers how they can bring about improvement and change with their colleagues in their subject areas. It emphasizes what is particular about leading and managing the middle realm of education organizations, showing how structural, cultural and individual imperatives and perspectives interact with each other in the professional practice of being a subject leader.

The book is of interest not only to subject leaders and curriculum co-ordinators, to help them reflect rigorously on their practice, but also to those responsible for supervising them, such as headteachers and school governors, as well as for those accountable to them. It will be a useful text for serving teachers undertaking higher degrees programmes or programmes for gaining national standards qualifications, the National Professional Qualification for Headteachers (NPQH) as much as for the NPQSL (National Professional Qualification for Subject Leaders) when it is implemented.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Series Editor’s Preface
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction
• Part I Strategic Direction and Development of the Subject Area
• 2 Managing Change within the Subject Area
• 3 Managing Federal and Confederate Departments Christine Wise
• 4 Leading and Co-ordinating Diffuse Subject Areas
• Part II Teaching and Learning
• 5 Being a Curriculum Leader: Helping Colleagues to Improve Learning Christine Wise
• 6 Improving Teaching and Learning within the Subject Area
• 7 Developing Professional Networks: Working with Parents and Communities to Enhance Students’ Learning
• Part III Leading and Managing Staff
• 8 The Subject Leader as a Middle Manager
• 9 Cultures of Leadership and Professional Autonomy: Managing Self, Developing Others
• 10 Professional Development and Action Research
• Part IV Efficient and Effective Deployment of Staff and Resources
• 11 Planning Development and Resource Utilisation to Improve Students’ Learning
• 12 Working with Support and Supply Staff to Improve School Performance
• 13 Subject Leadership and School Improvement
• References
• Index