National College for School Leadership

Futures thinking - guide to reflection (Aspiring Heads)

Futures thinking

Use this tool to consider and capture your personal feelings about what your school of the future could look like. This may be useful as you consider a move to headship.

You can use these thoughts to inform your current leadership development.

This is not a list of recommendations, but a chance for you to reflect on how you feel about a set of possible future scenarios. Some of the statements may sound plausible; indeed they may be happening now. Some may seem far-fetched and impossible to achieve. Some may be things you feel very strongly about and will be a priority for a school you lead.

The tool looks at three areas:

  1. Leadership and learning communities
  2. Personalisation and the school
  3. Learning and teaching

You will be presented with a number of statements in each area and you can indicate how much you agree or disagree with each one.

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