deputy head
Assistant school leader
A deputy head is the second-ranking administrator in a British school, subordinate to the headmaster or headteacher.
The role combines teaching duties with administrative responsibilities like discipline, scheduling, and staff coordination.
The deputy head assumes leadership when the head is absent.
She served as deputy head for three years before becoming headteacher.
- vice presidentSecond-ranking executive officer
- second-in-commandImmediate subordinate to leader
- authorityPower to enforce obedience
- lieutenantJunior commissioned officer
- school leadershipThose managing educational institutions
accountability · chief of staff · line manager · supervision · mentorship · delegation · communication skills · conflict resolution · strategic planning · decision-making · safeguarding · pastoral care · staff meetings · adaptability · curriculum · vice principal · assistant principal · vice principal
- Deputieslieutenant, second-in-command, second in command, number two, vice president
- school leadersprincipal, headmaster, dean, headmistress, superintendent
- school staffteacher, teachers, principal, professor, librarian
- temporary rolestemp, temp worker, internship, substitute, interim
- African schoolsprimary schools, secondary schools, high schools, government schools, boarding schools
- UK Schoolsprimary school, primary schools, secondary schools, secondary school, comprehensive schools
deputy headheadteacher
School's chief administrator
principal · head teacher · headmaster · headmistress · school head
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