Planning for headship
Career planning to become a headteacher is about making choices: exactly the kinds of choices that will have characterised your career to date, and including aspects such as the training you have undertaken, the places you have wanted to live and the jobs you have accepted.
Whether consciously or not, you have successfully planned your career to date. Whilst the next career step may bring new challenges, the planning processes are the same.
- Five characteristics of career planning
- Who is being appointed to headteacher posts?
- How do you measure up?
- Preparing for the move: what colleagues say
Case study: David Brixey, Headteacher, The Angmering School, Angmering
I did worry about the extra responsibilities of headship affecting my home life, but I find fitting work and home life together marginally easier as a head. I make more decisions about what I do rather than just having things passed to me by other people, so I feel more in control of my life-work balance than before.
