Effective Leadership, Raising Morale
Effective Leadership, Raising Morale
The Effective Leadership and Pupil Outcomes Project from the DSCF reported that managers in improving schools are particularly good at motivating colleagues and maintaining their enthusiasm over a long period of time. However many managers have had little training in motivational techniques.
This report fits in with a report that came out a couple of years back in which it was argued that teacher motivation was one of the simplest ways of obtaining a high level of departmental improvement without it costing anything.
The argument is simple: in most organisations, motivating the staff is a central part of the work of the senior management. No matter how professional one’s colleagues are thought or expected to be, it is realised that they are also human – and all humans can have ups and downs. We all like to be told we are doing well, we like hear about how our work is contributing to the overall well-being of the organisation, and when we are asked to take on new work, we like to be thanked.
In many ways the application of this to schooling is obvious. When the choice is between the highly motivated individual with the personal drive to make a difference, or the teacher who lacks that drive and for whom teaching is what happens between holidays, there is only one answer. We want the motivated teacher.
And yet we all of us observe the teacher whose level of motivation declines.
“Teacher Motivation: the low-cost high gain approach to school improvement” is a report which has been used in hundreds of schools across the UK as the model for improving motivation among teachers.
It is provided both as a CD (which can be loaded onto the virtual learning environment) and as a photocopiable book, so that individual sections can be copied and handed to colleagues, who then return for a short in-school seminar on the particular topic being reviewed.
A sample of the book is available on line at http://www.pdf.firstandbest.co.uk/education/T1573.pdf
Prices
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Photocopiable report in a ring binder, £49.95 plus £3.95 delivery
CD with school-wide rights: £49.95 plus £3.95 delivery
Both the Ring Binder and the CD £56.94 plus £3.95 delivery
Prices include VAT.
You can purchase the report, quoting order code: T1573EMN
By post to First and Best, Hamilton House, Earlstrees Ct., Earlstrees Way, Corby, NN17 4HH
By fax to 01536 399 012
On line with a credit card at http://tinyurl.com/lxcq8b