Leadership

School Leadership 2010 To 2016: Characteristics And Trends

This DfE report builds on the statistics presented in the annual School Workforce Census by looking at the characteristics and trends of teachers in leadership roles in state-funded schools. Leadership Briefing (141)

The report examines the number of teachers in each leadership role and how this has changed over time; compares the characteristics of teachers in leadership roles with those of classroom teacher is and considers how these have changed over time; and explores progression to leadership and how this is affected by the characteristics of gender, ethnicity and region, and then once there how well these leaders are retained.

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By one popular estimate, 65% of children entering primary school today will ultimately end up working in… […] job types that don’t yet exist” (WEF 2016).In his 2006 ‘TED Talk’, Sir Ken Robinson observes that children; “starting school this year will be retiring in 2065. Nobody has a clue […] what the world will look like in five years’ time. And yet we’re meant to be educating them for it. So the unpredictability, I think, is extraordinary.”  (Robinson, 2006).The traditional response of policy makers to emergent challenge tends to be two-fold: (i) structural or systemic change; and/or, (2) short-term policy goals (Ilott et al., 2016 with Norris and Adam, 2017). These responses are understandable in the context of the UK political cycle that “naturally tends towards short-term activity” (Ilott et al., 2016:8) and the reality of education policy makers having a limited number of ‘levers’ to achieve change (Parliament. House of Commons, 2010, p.4).Ilott et al. (2016) and the National College for Teaching & Leadership (undated) remind us that many of the recent structural changes to education in England and Wales (including, but not limited to, the content and delivery of the National Curriculum, and professional standards for teachers) were often short-to-medium term solutions to long-term challenges.If were we to attempt to design an education system that would preempt the challenges of the future, the only resource available to us is our understanding of ‘now’, projected forward. History demonstrates that this resource will always be insufficient for the task: even the best-informed projection will be wrong, to a greater or lesser degree.For example, in 1964, the writer Arthur C. Clarke predicted with alarming accuracy the online world of 2014, and changes to employment.  However, Clark also predicted with equal confidence the universal delegation of manual work to trained chimpanzees (Middleton, 2013).So, what is the alternative to attempting to build a ‘future-proofed’ educational system that will fail to accurately predict real-world change?The best evidence we have suggests that the most effective support that we can give to young people to meet the challenges of tomorrow is to embed pedagogies and practice that could be described as ‘future-aware’.‘Future-aware’ pedagogies support young people to develop the mindset, capacities and characteristics required to meet new challenges as they arise, and on their own terms.In the following section, I suggest effective responses to the challenge of developing ‘future-aware’ pedagogies. 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Inclusion

Future Proofing Teaching & Learning

17 Apr 2018