Secondary school department head

Code 1345.1.7

Secondary school department heads manage and supervise their assigned departments to ensure that students are instructed and supported in a safe learning environment. They work closely with the secondary school principal to lead and assist school staff and to optimise communication between school management and teachers, parents, and other districts and schools. They facilitating meetings, develop and review curriculum programmes, observe staff when the principal delegates this work, and assume shared responsibility with the principal for financial resource management.

Essential skills

Knowledge

  • project management
  • curriculum standards
  • curriculum objectives
  • assessment processes
  • learning technologies

Skills and competences

  • cooperate with education professionals
  • assess the development of youth
  • assess employees' capability levels
  • guarantee students' safety
  • identificar acciones de mejora
  • write work-related reports
  • assist in the organisation of school events
  • secondary school procedures

Transversal competences

  • advise on teaching methods
  • liaise with educational staff
  • lead inspections
  • manage secondary school department
  • provide feedback to teachers
  • mostrar un liderazgo ejemplar en la organización
  • present reports
  • provide education management support
  • use office systems

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