A ‘High Challenge, Low Threat’ School Culture
- Create the conditions for productive work
- Use principles of high challenge, low threat to:
- drive whole-school improvement
- allow colleagues to combat difficult issues
- Leadership challenges: explore how the best leaders in the world overcome them
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Description
The importance of high challenge, low threat
Examples from industry: what the most successful leaders do best
Unpick cognitive psychology: Prof. Daniel Willingham
Leadership and management theory: Prof. Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The principles of wise leadership
Dig deeper, linger longer: tackle fewer things in greater depth
Give everyone a voice, from teachers to parents to pupils
Develop personal authority and do not rely on power
Focus on the core business: challenging teaching and learning
Build intrinsic motivation in staff and pupils
How to evidence the successes in your school
Ensure your staff embrace challenge
Create a low-threat environment where staff can make mistakes
Reduce the fear factor and develop vulnerable reciprocity
Make change management a mechanism for growth
Build trusting relationships in which you can have difficult conversations
Tools to implement ‘high challenge, low threat’ principles
Curriculum examples for raising challenge
A workload challenge audit
Five strategies to save time and create challenge
Curriculum planning and assessment techniques
Making critical guidance and feedback specific
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Additional information
| Course Type | Leadership & Management |
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| Job Title | |
| Key Stage | Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Primary, Secondary |
| Date | 24th March 2020 |
| Location | London |
| Venue | Avonmouth House, Venue to be confirmed up to 4 weeks in advance |
