Early Headship Coaching Offer (EHCO)
Programme Overview:
Our Early Headship Coaching Offer (EHCO) provides new headteachers within their first 5 years of headship with personalised support to help them solve problems relevant in their school context.
Curriculum:
The 12-month EHCO is tailored to your needs and the content covered will depend on your school's specific challenges. It is structured around the persistent problems of school leadership. You will select from these topics and personalise the course to support areas you want to develop expertise in. You will select three persistent problems over the duration of the course:
- School culture: Establishing a professional and supportive school culture and encouraging staff to contribute.
- Learning and development: Ensuring effective approaches to professional learning and development.
- Curriculum: Organising and teaching the curriculum.
- Behaviour: Attending to pupil behaviour and wider circumstances.
- School improvement: Analysing and diagnosing problems, planning and implementing strategies for continuous educational improvement.
- Administration: Managing an efficient and effective organisation.
How you will learn:
Content is shared via workbooks on Ambition Institute's development platform. Participants will access one workbook for each persistent problem selected.
The workbook shares an expert edit, to build on the expertise developed in the NPQ Headship. Participants will use this knowledge building to focus and define a context-specific problem.
This course focusses on development opportunities for you. Your context specific problem will be developed through one-to-one coaching sessions with an experienced headteacher. You will be able to shadow this headteacher, engaging in a range of activities which will help you better understand your problem and possible solutions. You will also have regular peer-group discussions with other headteachers via online conferencing, to work through work-related dilemmas.
Eligibility:
You can take advantage of the Early Headship Coaching Offer at the same time as doing the NPQ Headteacher.
Benefits:
You will receive ongoing personal support and one-to-one coaching. You will be able to gain experience through shadowing an experienced headteacher and be able to build an effective peer network.
Your school or trust will benefit from improved staff retention by investing in your development and be able tackle existing challenges.
Funding:
NPQ scholarship funding has changed. Visit the DfE website for more details and to check eligibility status.
If you do not work in an eligible school, this NPQ will cost £800 plus VAT.
Apply:
Our next cohort commences in Autumn 2024. Follow the steps below to register for your chosen NPQ.
1. Register with Ambition Institute, our lead provider, via this link Register your interest in our NPQs | Ambition Institute
2. Register with the DfE Register for a national professional qualification (education.gov.uk). You will need your TRN. Please select Ambition Institute as the lead provider.
3. Your application is assessed (applications will be considered in the order they are received) and if successful you will receive an offer.
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