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Role comparison: deputy headteacher vs assistant headteacher
What is the difference between a deputy and an assistant head? This article cites the STPCD, advice from a teaching school and two of our associate education experts on the difference between the two roles. It also looks at changing an assistant headteacher's title to 'deputy headteacher'.
Contents
- Professional duties
- Case study from a teaching school: primary
- Expert guidance: secondary
- Determining the leadership structure
- Changing an assistant headteacher's title to deputy headteacher
- Head of school: challenges and expectations
- New to the headteacher role: priorities at the start of headship
- New to the school business manager role
- Role and responsibilities of a SENCO
- Role comparison: headteacher vs head of school
- Role of an executive headteacher
- Role of an online safety leader
- Role of a primary school deputy headteacher
- Role of a school business manager (SBM)
- Role of a subject leader
- Role of the accounting officer in an academy trust
- Staff room poster: roles and responsibilities
- Strategic responsibilities of school leaders
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