This course will provide you with information to help you to spot the signs and symptoms of poor mental health in your colleagues, give examples of helpful conversations about mental health, consider reasonable adjustments you can make to support colleagues in their recovery and learn about useful resources/support services you can signpost your colleagues to for further help.

In this course, Matt Bromley shares practical ways for teachers to manage their workload in order to promote good health and wellbeing.  One in 10 teachers left the profession in 2016.  Of these, an increasing proportion left the profession for other jobs rather than retiring, suggesting working conditions not age was driving them out of the classroom.  Although there are myriad reasons why teachers quit the profession, topping the table in nearly every survey is teacher workload. So, how can teachers manage their time more effectively and ensure they strike a healthy work life balance, in order to protect their health and wellbeing?  This online course offers some tangible tips teachers can put into immediate practice.  As well as being useful for individual CPD, this course could form the basis of in-school 1-2-1 coaching for prospective members of SLT.

Day to day management is often about being reactive rather than proactive, dealing with issues as they arise.  However, there are ways of being better prepared for the unexpected and of creating the conditions within which unforeseen crises are minimised or mitigated. This course is perfect for Subject Leaders and Heads of Department leading any discipline and is ideal for those new to the role and those just seeking their first middle leadership position.  It is a practical course, anchored in the day-to-day reality of running a department.  It follows a focused, logical sequence, and is full of real-life learning.

This course explores what successful employer engagement looks like in practice in FE settings and offers suggestions for engaging with employers to create effective, long-lasting partnerships for the benefit of learners. This course is practical and interactive: it offers activities and recommendations to explore with colleagues in college, so delegates can develop a cohesive and holistic framework supporting impactful employer engagement in their organisation. 

This is a playback of a past live webinar.  Aimed at middle and senior leaders who are keen to support the wellbeing of their team, this webinar will explore four simple ideas that will help you to lead with empathy and compassion and look after the wellbeing of your incredible teams during these… interesting… times.

There is no right or wrong time to apply for your first subject leader role, nor a tick-list of experiences you must acquire prior to applying.  Sometimes, you just know you’re ready; often, you don’t know until you try.  But when you contemplate taking that leap, there are many things you can do to prepare.

This course is perfect for Subject Leaders and Heads of Department leading any discipline and is ideal for those new to the role and those just seeking their first middle leadership position.  It is a practical course, anchored in the day-to-day reality of running a department.  It follows a focused, logical sequence, and is full of real-life learning.  

 

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This is a recording of a past webinar, Pooky explore 5 simple ideas for engaging with parents and carers whose personal experiences of schools mean that they are fearful or untrusting of school and are less likely to engage. There is no quick win, but these simple ideas which don't need to cost anything to implement have worked well in many schools.”

This is a playback of a past live webinar. During this webinar, Pooky explored some simple steps to take us a little closer to meeting the mental health needs of every member of our school or college community.