Course Details
School self-evaluation for governors
It's a vital part of the responsibilities of the school's governors to know how they can support and interpret school self-evaluation. Even though governors aren't usually directly involved in the processes of self-evaluation, they should nevertheless have an understanding of what goes on.
This course aims to provide school governors with the knowledge and understanding they require to support the effective self-evaluation of their schools.
For the purposes of this course, school self-evaluation covers the monitoring, evaluating, and reviewing of school performance.
The course is written primarily for governors of maintained schools in England, who have a specific range of responsibilities and a particular relationship with the school. However, there are some Tasks and Activities which may be useful to those who hold office on the equivalent body in other types of school, eg, board of managers in an international school.
As you work through the course, you will:
- develop your understanding of the relationship between the governors and the school’s leadership team
- reflect on the effectiveness of your school’s current policies and procedures for self-evaluation, and consider how they might be developed
- develop your knowledge and understanding of how you, as governors, can construct practical policies to support self-evaluation
Author Biography
Meet the course author:
Gerald Haigh is an educational writer and consultant specialising in school management matters. He has a background in teaching (including senior management posts up to and including headship) in a wide range of schools - primary, middle, secondary modern, bilateral, comprehensive and special. As a head, Gerald Haigh received specialist training on the relationship between headteachers and governing bodies. Since leaving headship, he has been a school governor for nine years, seven of them as chair. He has run governor training sessions for Warwickshire LEA, and is a frequent contributor to the governors' pages of the Times Educational Supplement.