It can always be difficult to get started but hopefully you will have the strength of character and motivation to get on with it.
The task of running a school requires imagination and common sense. But there are also certain principles of management which can provide useful guidance for the practising school head, and a number of these are examined in this module. The principles covered here include: aspects of human and public relations, communications, delegation, decision making and problem solving. We hope that the module will encourage you to reflect on your own performance and consider ways in which you might improve your own school management processes to become more effective in your role as school head and as a manager of change.
We hope that you do not find the work too onerous or too difficult and that what you have read so far is helping you in your current post. The first modules are more theoretical than the rest and the programme becomes much more practical as you go along.
We encourage you to keep working at it and are confident, from the many comments of graduates of the programme, that you will find it beneficial in your work and a great step to higher things.