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Developing the Role of Subject Leaders in Riga Secondary Schools

Developing the Role of Subject Leaders in Riga Secondary Schools. Signe Neimane, Daina Kupca, Agnis Gleizups. Research questions. What are the ways to become a subject leader? What competences do subject leaders have and what are needed? What are the key areas of subject leadership?.

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Developing the Role of Subject Leaders in Riga Secondary Schools

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  1. Developing the Role of Subject Leaders in Riga Secondary Schools Signe Neimane, Daina Kupca, Agnis Gleizups

  2. Research questions • What are the ways to become a subject leader? • What competences do subject leaders have and what are needed? • What are the key areas of subject leadership?

  3. Data were collected from • 145 subject leaders (questionnaire) • 4 focus groups (interviews)

  4. Subject leaders – who are they? • ‘Subject leaders provide professional leadership and management for a subject to secure high quality teaching, effective use of resources and improved standard of learning and achieving for all pupils’ • National Standards for Subject Leaders, 1998

  5. Nature and scope of a Subject leader’s role • Strategic direction and development of the subject • Teaching and learning • Leading and managing staff • Efficient and effective deployment of staff and resources (TTA, 1998)

  6. Subject leaders: • Lead a team of particular subject • Cooperate with school administration • Organise meetings and discussions about innovations in teaching and learning • Work as mentors and peer mentors • Consult, monitor, evaluate and analyse • Organise different events for students From interviews with focus groups

  7. What kind of knowledge, competences and skills should subject leaders have?

  8. What kind of professional development do subject leaders need?

  9. Departments: • Evaluate curriculum worked out by teachers • Discuss year plans of teachers • Provide link between subjects • Analyse students’ learning success • Organise experience exchange • Evaluate teaching and learning materials From interviews with focus groups

  10. Recommendations • Standard for subject leaders should be developed • Guidelines for effective work of subject departments • Special professional development programme for subject leaders, including supervisions and problem solving seminars • Reduction of teaching hours for subject leaders: 50% teaching, 50% work of a subject leader

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