Hugh Busher & Alma Harris 
Subject Leadership and School Improvement [EPUB ebook] 

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.

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Introduction

PART ONE: STRATEGIC DIRECTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF A SUBJECT AREA

Managing Change within the Subject Area

Managing Federal and Confederate Departments in Schools

Leading and Co-ordinating Diffuse Subject Areas

PART TWO: TEACHING AND LEARNING

Being a Curriculum Leader

Helping Colleagues to Improve Learning

Improving Teaching and Learning within the Subject Area

Developing Professional Networks

Working with Parents and Communities to Enhance Students′ Learning

PART THREE: LEADING AND MANAGING STAFF

The Subject Leader as a Middle Manager

Cultures of Leadership and Professional Autonomy

Managing Self, Developing Others

Professional Development and Action Enquiry

PART FOUR: EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE DEPLOYMENT OF STAFF AND RESOURCES

Planning Development and Resource Utilization to Improve Students′ Learning

Working with Support and Supply Staff to Improve School Performance

Subject Leadership and School Improvement

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Alma Harris is Professor of Educational Leadership at the Institute of Educational Leadership, University of Malaya, Malaysia. Since September 2012, she has been the Director of the Institute of Educational Leadership at the University of Malaya (UM). In 2010–2012 she was a senior policy adviser to the Welsh Government. Professor Harris holds visiting professorial posts at Moscow Higher School of Economics, Nottingham Business School, University of Wales and the University of Southampton. She is currently Past President of the International Congress for School Effectiveness and School Improvement. Professor Harris has published many books including Distributed Leadership Matters (2013), and Uplifting Leadership (2014) with Andy Hargreaves and Alan Boyle.