Welcome, to Infinite Education Career Advice for Teachers
We offer advice and support for teachers to plan and prepare for career progression You can explore our guidance on how to write a cover letter, prepare for your interview and find out how to teach a good demo lesson.
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Career progression
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Although there are two traditional routes through middle leadership to senior leadership: head of department and pastoral, the Teaching School Alliances and the MAT system has created many new and innovative roles and routes into senior leadership, the SLE being one of these.
In an age of performance tables and Ofsted inspections, teachers and leaders at all levels need to demonstrate excellent student progress, particularly in exam classes. If you are responsible for a class, a department or a faculty, career advancement will be determined to a large degree on your ability demonstrate strong student progress in your area of responsibility.
As well as demonstrating that you can achieve excellent student progress, you also need to be able to convince a Headteacher that you are ready to take on any new role that you are applying for. Many teachers and middle leaders only start to think about this when they want to apply for jobs. They then find that they are not able to demonstrate that they have the skills, qualities and experience needed to convince a Headteacher to appoint them.
Key points
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Start planning for your next job well in advance
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Look at the job adverts for the type of positions you might want to apply for, look through the person specifications and identify which criteria you already meet and which ones you don’t. Plan how you are going to be able to meet the criteria by the time you start to apply for jobs
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Take on unpaid leadership responsibilities. Although this will increase your workload, you will be able to demonstrate leadership experience if you are applying for any middle leader role
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Think carefully about how you will continue your professional development, which courses will help you prepare for your next role?
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Applying for jobs and being good at interviews comes with practice. Apply for jobs with the intention of using them as practice, reflect and develop your application and interview skills. So, by the time your ideal job is advertised you are ready for it
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