Ofsted inspections - clarification for schools. Workingoutwhatworks. Everything you need to know about inspection. All Aboard for the Ofsted Dambusters. Sometimes there is a moment in time, a chance to create substantial change. You either grab it or wave it goodbye and the opportunity passes you by. It may not look anything special at the time but hidden beneath the grit is a pearl of great price.
Carpe Diem. Twitter Bombing Ofsted There is no doubt that social media is having an impact on Ofsted and its functioning. There were a number of people typing away this morning who will produce a far better record of what was said than my scribbles could ever afford. Ofsted & Levels: Learning Not Levels Moves Centre Stage One of the things taxing school leaders and teachers currently is how Ofsted will assess progress without levels.
Screenshot of a resource I have produced over summer on Improving the Quality of Teaching: Just Take the Next Step Now, change mindset and think about data from a learning perspective. The expectation is that inspectors will ask schools about their curriculum and what the school expect students to learn? Carpe Diem. The OFSTED Collection. External accountability is good so more must be better. This has been the mantra of successive governments for the past two decades. External accountability has been both a reality of my professional life and a plague on it. I’ve decided to pull together my various blogs relating to Ofsted into a metablog. The problems with a high stakes external accountability system are: The tail ends up wagging the dog;School leaders become partially focussed on protecting their schools instead of fully focussed on improving them andPeople believe what Ofsted say or write must be true.
Social media in particular has started to expose the Ofsted process through greater transparency. We all want the same thing – a great education for all our young people, irrespective of their background or the school they attend. Along with a few other people I will be meeting Michael Cladingbowl (@mcladingbowl) the National Director of Inspection Reform at Ofsted on Friday.
Ofsted – Shorter More Frequent Like this: Google Drive Viewer. Ofsted | Revised guidance for inspections of maintained schools and academies. 31 Jul 2014 Ofsted has significantly reduced, by over 275 pages, the amount of guidance it publishes for inspectors, schools and other stakeholders. Many elements of previous guidance are now included in a new training programme for inspectors. There are now just three guidance documents: The framework for school inspection; the School inspection handbook; and Inspecting safeguarding in maintained schools and academies. Inspectors will use this new guidance for the inspection of maintained schools and academies from September 2014. Key changes The revised School inspection handbook incorporates guidance and briefings for inspectors that were previously spread across a number of documents. Associated resources. The framework for school inspection.pdf. Why do Ofsted inspectors observe individual lessons and how do they evaluate teaching in schools?
The Beaufort Wind Scale - why we need an observation revolution - Tom Bennett - Blog - Tom Bennett. Before technology bled the last drop of romance from navigation, sailors used the Beaufort Wind Force Scale to measure wind speed. Without instruments to accurately measure conditions, mariners resorted to subjective value judgements - ‘rowdy seas’, ‘stiff breeze’ etc - that varied from ship to ship. In 1805 Admiral Francis Beaufort devised an elegant and beautiful standard which used a clever trick to avoid the ambiguity: he described the effect that each level of wind or storm had on the sail of a man-o-war (the most common ship at the time). This ranged from 0 (dead calm) to 12 (that which no canvas could withstand). Adjusted, extended and sometimes still used (fans of Radio 4 will be used to catching up with the weather conditions inf the Orkneys) it was a way to gauge something as wild as the wind without codifying it. Rather than bottle lightning, Beaufort simply described it.
Part of the problem lies with the nature of our job. And this is true. Who watches the watchmen? Schools inspection policy FAQs. Leading Together-Where next for OFSTED and Inspection? | leadingtogether. The OFSTED Experience The changing face of school improvement and the justified quest for higher standards strengthens the argument that a national inspection service has to transform as well.
In June 2013, we had four inspections within the Cabot Learning Federation and all four were challenging as we knew they would be, but we also had intelligent inspection teams who looked at the impact of our strategies and were less concerned about what we did to achieve them. We do not believe in a formulaic approach to teaching across the federation, preferring instead to set clear expectations about the quality of engagement, progress and attainment whilst allowing our Principals to support teachers to develop strategies that produce these outcomes.
Therefore it was interesting to open the Sunday Times this morning (January 26 2014) and read this debate being played out on a national scale through printed press and social media. 1. So where does this leave the TEACHING debate? Like this: 102_summary_of_changes_to_ofsted_jan_2014. Ofsted’s Subsidiary Guidance, showing changes in January 2014 version | Clerk to Governors. ChangesinOFSETDsubguidance. Measuring school success | Civil Service Quarterly. English secondary schools are held accountable in two ways. The government publishes data about exam results, and Ofsted inspects schools, taking the data into account. But a major shift in how success is measured for GCSEs is coming, writes Tim Leunig, Chief Analyst and Senior Ministerial Policy Adviser at the Department for Education. The UK’s school accountability framework is generally seen as world-leading, with the OECD’s education head Andreas Schleicher telling Parliament this year that “strong public accountability” is an important part of “the most successful education systems”.
Prior to 2010, a school was “above the floor” if three in ten pupils were awarded 5 of more GCSEs of grade C or better. This approach encourages schools to concentrate on C/D borderline pupils. These criticisms have been widely understood for some time. We took the overwhelming consensus that the previous system was not fit for purpose seriously. Can a school do well, whatever its intake? Everything you need to know about inspection | M J Bromley's Blog.