Is it wrong to ask for a TLR?

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A while ago I decided I was ready to leave my current school because the behaviour was so awful. It made me so fed up and down I cried for the first few weeks. They were so lenient and no measures were in place to monitor how poorly students behaved.

Anyway, I was unsuccessful and I decided that I would stay. Before I made this decision though, my manager said (potentially dangling a carrot) “I’m going to have a chat with the head and see what we can do about making you a KS3 lead with a tlr.

At the time it sounded great and I was really happy with it, but then, a few weeks later he said “SLT weren’t too keen on the idea”. Bare in mind this is after I’d just designed the whole curriculum for KS3 and attended multiple conferences and CPD events to make sure I offer students a broad and balanced curriculum.

I heard nothing about this since the end of April/early May. But because I’m not outspoken, I’m nervous about saying “I’d like to be considered for the lead of KS3” I’m concerned I’m being too forward about it. But at the same time I realise that if you don’t ask you don’t get.

Have you saved evidence of all this, including a means of recording outcomes, ready for appraisal? It's things like that which can be used to support the case - and can also substantiate a pay appeal if you don't get what you feel is a fair decision.

It was verbal. So I haven’t got anything physical in terms of evidence unfortunately.

There's the evidence of your CPD, the planning, etc. You can (and need to) provide evidence of your normal work in meeting your existing objectives, and also the work you have done in response to your line management meeting where he said....and you'd need to do....to get a tlr on top of progression for meeting all your targets and going above & beyond.

I am cynical, OP, but it sounds very much like your line manager may have dangled a carrot that he had no authority to offer you. If he took it to SLT as he says (and I assume you only have his word for this?), from their perspective you have already done the work and you were unsuccessful in applying for the new job, so there is very little incentive for them to offer you any more money.

You are going to have to ask. Compile the evidence of the curriculum planning you have done and request a meeting with the headteacher. If there are equivalent roles in other departments then this is useful to present as evidence of precedent.