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Providing a Strategic View
Acting as a Critical and Supportive Friend
Ensuring Accountability
Governor Roles
Providing
a strategic view
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"The governing
body has important powers and duties but limited time and resources.
So it should focus on where it can add most value - that is, in helping
to decide a shool's strategy for improvement so that its puplis learn
most effectively and achieve the highest standards.
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The governing
body should should help to set, and keep under review, the broad framework
within which the Headteacher and staff should run the school. In all
its work, the governing body should focus on the key issues of raising
standards of achievement, establishing high expectations and promoting
effective teaching and learning".
Acting as a Critical and Supportive friend
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"The governing
body provides the Headteacher and staff with support, advice and information,
drawing on its members' knowledge and experience. In these ways the
governing body acts as a critical friend to the school.
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Critical in
the sense of its responsibility for monitoring and evaluating the
school's effectiveness, asking
challenging questions, and pressing for improvement. A friend because
it exists to promote the interests of the school and its puplis.
Ensuring accountability
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"The governing
body has a right to discuss, question and refine proposals - while
always respecting the
professional roles of the Headteacher and other staff, and their responsibilities
for the management of the school. In its turn the governing body answers
for its actions, above all to parents and the wider local
community for the school's overall performance."
- Governing Bodies and Effective
Schools (DfES)
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