
Third-party on-site course
SMART TEACHERS EMERGING LEADER PROGRAMME, ICELAND. A motivating course to discover your own path to effective leadership in Education
Are you a new or aspiring leader? Would you like to know if being a leader is for you? Begin your inspirative leadership journey with us.
• Designed by experienced leaders in education.
• Activities tried, tested and approved in real educational settings
• Methodology renowned internationally.
• Innovative, effective and motivating!
• Fun regional activities with local course providers.
06.02.2025
Next upcoming session:
09.11.2025
- 15.11.2025
Iceland
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Reykjavík
Description
- Being a leader is highly rewarding, however it is a complex and multifaceted role which can quickly become overwhelming and stressful if not expertly managed. In this course we will explore ideas that will put you in the right direction on your leadership journey.
- Becoming an effective leader takes time and experience and this course will give you a “kick start” by showing you some deliberate acts of leadership which will help make being a leader more rewarding and fun. We will also give you some important tips on how to look after your own well-being as a leader and strategies to build a positive team culture within your setting.
- The course is highly interactive and will include a lot of discussion to help you, together with your fellow participants, build an understanding of effective leadership and its challenges. It will give you practical ideas and frameworks that you can take home and put into practice straight away.
Course activities include:
- Working together and using frameworks to build and support effective teamwork.
- Exploring ideas on how to run successful meetings.
- Increasing awareness of where or how things may go wrong.
- Exploring well-being and motivation strategies for leaders.
- Examining ways to build a culture where people can thrive.
- Trying out frameworks for challenging conversations.
- Looking at various leadership styles and what they mean to you and your team.
Learning objectives
- To create a fun learning environment where emerging leaders can share experiences and learn from like-minded professionals.
- To give participants a close-up and personal insight into the Icelandic school system.
- To gain access to and confidence in a range of core leadership skills.
- To increase awareness of your own leadership style and the impact it has on others.
- To learn how to adapt a leadership style to the changing needs of a team and setting.
- To promote a range of strategies which cultivate a positive working culture within your setting.
- To develop confidence in using frameworks for difficult conversations and an awareness of how positive culture makes these conversations easier.
- To become familiar with a range of strategies to manage stress and nurture your own well-being as a leader.
- To discover your voice and how to influence your organisation positively.
- To help participants create the vision for their ‘emerging leadership’ role with time to reflect on individual schools and plan realistic steps for implementation and success.
- To connect teachers for future international collaborations and projects.
Methodology & assessment
• Fun warm-up, ice-breaking activities and team-building activities.
• Regular short brain-breaks when necessary to demonstrate energising, calming and brain-gym activities.
• To explore some deliberate acts of leadership that impact culture and how you as a leader contribute to this.
• To examine leadership styles: what they are; what is best in a school environment; your style and the kind of styles the people you lead might need.
• To look at and practise different ways of building a high functioning team.
• To introduce techniques to cope with and minimize the stress that inevitably comes with leadership.
• To introduce frameworks for tackling difficult conversations and practise using them.
• Reflection and discussion opportunities focused on how to adapt and design activities for our own school settings.
• Sharing good practice session encouraging participants to share successful activities from their own practice.
• Structured networking opportunities so teachers can find suitable partners to continue their Erasmus learning journey.
• An Icelandic school visit including presentation of the school, question and answer session and classroom pop-ins.
• Vision planning session at the end of the course to plan short, medium and long term action based on learning during the mobility.
• Presentations of vision plans.
• Active listening session to reflect on course experience.
• Cultural activities including the “Icelandic Corner” presentation and visits to local hot tubs to practise the Icelandic art of well-being and reflect on the course.
All slides and materials are given to the participants during the course.
• Regular short brain-breaks when necessary to demonstrate energising, calming and brain-gym activities.
• To explore some deliberate acts of leadership that impact culture and how you as a leader contribute to this.
• To examine leadership styles: what they are; what is best in a school environment; your style and the kind of styles the people you lead might need.
• To look at and practise different ways of building a high functioning team.
• To introduce techniques to cope with and minimize the stress that inevitably comes with leadership.
• To introduce frameworks for tackling difficult conversations and practise using them.
• Reflection and discussion opportunities focused on how to adapt and design activities for our own school settings.
• Sharing good practice session encouraging participants to share successful activities from their own practice.
• Structured networking opportunities so teachers can find suitable partners to continue their Erasmus learning journey.
• An Icelandic school visit including presentation of the school, question and answer session and classroom pop-ins.
• Vision planning session at the end of the course to plan short, medium and long term action based on learning during the mobility.
• Presentations of vision plans.
• Active listening session to reflect on course experience.
• Cultural activities including the “Icelandic Corner” presentation and visits to local hot tubs to practise the Icelandic art of well-being and reflect on the course.
All slides and materials are given to the participants during the course.
Certification details
- Letter of Intent/Invitation.
- Certificate of Attendance.
- Europass Mobility Document.
- Learning Agreement.
- Evaluation form.
OUTSTANDING TRAINERS
- This course is run by Christine Brown, a New Zealander with 25 years’ experience in school leadership. She has a Master’s degree in Education: Leadership and Professional Development and has continued to nurture her professional learning throughout her career; working with and being inspired by many fabulous people
- One of her numerous roles has been as Lead Principal for a geographical cluster of 10 schools in New Zealand, (Te Kāhui Ako o Tarkākā). These schools work closely together for the benefit of all students as they navigate their schooling from five years old to 18 years old.
- Her latest position was as the principal of a large Intermediate school Rāroa Normal Intermediate (11–13-year-old students). A mainstream school that also has an important role in teacher training; supporting the theory taught at Victoria University of Wellington with practical learning. Christine was also a member of the New Zealand National Executive for teacher training schools.
- Despite retiring from principalship, Christine is continuing with her passion to work with and help develop leadership in others. Her main focus is to help budding leaders have fun, navigate complexity and manage stress while developing school cultures that enable all to thrive.
Pricing, packages and other information
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Price:595Euro
Additional information
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Language:English
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Target audience ISCED:Primary education (ISCED 1)Lower secondary education (ISCED 2)Upper secondary education (ISCED 3)
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Target audience type:TeacherHead Teacher / PrincipalTeacher Educator
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Learning time:25 hours or more
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