Subject co-ordination and leadership in school
After you pass your NQT year, you’re eligable to be given command/control over one or more of the school subjects and become a subject coordinator. Essentially leading the school’s approach on the chosen subject, monitoring the assessment of it across school, enhancing teaching and learning and of course sorting out that subject’s resources for everyone...
As I work in a small school, I have 3 subjects to coordinate this year: Science (which I have been helping out with for the past year, but now its solely my domain!), Computing and I share Geography coordination with another teacher in school.
Science is a core subject so that is obviously going to be my main focus (and hopefully the focus of my performance managment meetings this year). I’ve joined lots of science newsletters, science coordinator facebook groups and have been researching science assessment to hopefully present a new science policy to the staff in a couple of weeks time.
Computing is going to be harder for me to coordinate, manily as our small school only has 8 working laptops in the whole school, and few other resources that add to the 2014 curriculum, making teaching computing very tricky. And as an added complexity, I don’t actually teach computing, my job share teaches computing for our class! :S
Either way it’s going to be an interesting year learning about how to coordinate subjects in school! Gonna have to get reading up on subject leadership I think...