A Culture of Lesson Observations
Reading Time: 4 minutes Almost three months have now passed since Ofsted announced the ground-breaking news, that inspectors would no…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Almost three months have now passed since Ofsted announced the ground-breaking news, that inspectors would no…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Fighting the Global Education Reform Movement (GERM).
Reading Time: 3 minutes This post answers the 35th question from my TeacherToolkit Thinking page of Thunks. Thunk 35: What…
Reading Time: 5 minutes This blog is based on my teaching experience alone.
Reading Time: 7 minutes The role of observations over the last few weeks, if not months, has debated the purpose…
Reading Time: 4 minutes How do we know what is good? Can we prove observations are valid and reliable?
Reading Time: 5 minutes This is a #SecretOfsted @TeacherToolkit article: A teacher’s experience of Ofsted, in Gloucestershire.
Reading Time: 6 minutes It’s that time of the year when teachers are tired; tempers are frayed and every minute…
Reading Time: 3 minutes “Since 2009, inspectors have been instructed not to grade the overall quality of a lesson they…
Reading Time: 3 minutes A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about ‘raising aspiration and equal-access’ and that the UK…
Reading Time: 5 minutes If you have been following my blogs recently, you will be fully aware of what has…
Reading Time: 6 minutes … The location and identity of this school, is not disclosed in the following article, but,…