Everything you do as subject leader sends off messages about your passion for the subject and desire to ensure that all pupils get the best education possible in history. This may be the quality of the curriculum on the one hand, and something as simple as the quality of cover lessons you provide when colleagues are absent on the other. Everything should relate back to your core values and beliefs, to why you want to lead history, and why you expect your team to want to follow your lead. If you, as leader, don’t articulate your values and expectations clearly or passionately enough, then can you expect others to pull in the same direction? So it is crucial that you have a view on :
- what type of history you want pupils to learn and how
- what you want the teaching to be like
- what sort of leader you are,
