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Flexible Route to Headship Look at the assessment guidance. Your rationale must include context (include any tensions- new builds, staffing etc), results of audit/analyses and critical and analytical use of research.
Your focus is on sustainable improvement and you will be linking local authority/national policy to research on school improvement and you must argue that critically. Rationale for Leadership and Management For this rationale, written for your commentary, you will find it useful to read the Assessment Guidance – Reflective Commentary. Ensure you refer to how reading has challenged/informed your values etc. Critical Incident (1) The Assessment Guidance – Reflective Commentary gives clear guidance as does the Reflective Commentary Assessment Criteria on analysing critical incidents. Again ensure you refer to how your professional reading has challenged/informed your actions/beliefs etc. Your values and attitudes should be clear throughout the critical incident. Remember the ‘critical’ part of the incident should relate to your learning and this should be explicit. Remember that the literature can justify what you know and believe but it is important to remember that literature will also challenge your thinking and practice. This is as far as you need to go for your 3000 words.
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