Where a secondary school department head can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a secondary school department head already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Secondary school department heads manage and supervise their assigned departments to ensure that students are instructed and supported in a safe learning environment. They work closely with the secondary school principal to lead and assist school staff and to optimise communication between school management and teachers, parents, and other districts and schools. They facilitating meetings, develop and review curriculum programmes, observe staff when the principal delegates this work, and assume shared responsibility with the principal for financial resource management.

Table 1 · Within reach

• deputy head teacher 63% covered · difficulty 40.8
• special educational needs coordinator 61% covered · difficulty 44.1
• nursery school head teacher 61% covered · difficulty 46.1
• dean of faculty 59% covered · difficulty 44.3
• special educational needs head teacher 58% covered · difficulty 49.6

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secondary school department head is filed under Managers, ISCO major group 1. The full index lists all ten groups.

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Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a secondary school department head already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.