In this course you will learn about key aspects of starting out as a pastoral leader in a secondary setting - ranging from how to lead your team all the way through to how to tackle behaviour and attendance for your students.
Have you just been appointed a new Head of Year? Taken the role of Head of House? Or been made Pastoral Leader? ...then this is the course for you!
This course is designed to take the panic and fear out of taking on your first pastoral role. It is created based on my own recollections of becoming a Head of Year for the first time...and my quick realisation that I felt like I had no idea what I was doing!
In the course you will cover key aspects of starting out in the pastoral role, whilst keeping it focused on finding your feet and establishing yourself with your year group.
What will you cover on this course?
In this course there are 6 modules:
1) Course overview and welcome including more information about me and my journey into pastoral care.
2) Being a pastoral leader including exploring key attributes of great pastoral leaders, how to manage workload and the impact you can have.
3) Getting to know your students including tried and tested strategies to understand them better, how to work with others in school to get the most from students, and key indicators to help you know how to target support for your students.
4) Leading your team including how to get to know your tutors, how to establish yourself with your team and how to run meetings effectively.
5) Working across school including building networks within your organisation, and strategies for working with other professionals in your school.
6) An introduction to understanding attendance and behaviour including key strategies for improving behaviour and attendance, national information about both and benefits of improved attendance and behaviour.
Please note: units are subject to change depending on requests from those on the course.