Book looks

DfE Ofsted Teaching and Learning 

The Tail Wagging The Dog

10th February 201910th February 2019 @TeacherToolkit 1246 Views 3 Comments accountability, Book looks, Chicken and Rice, Department for Education, Dog, Graded Lessons, haircuts, Intervention, leadership, Marking, Mobile Phones, Ofsted, Outstanding, Parenting, Parents, parents' evenings, Pizzas, Postcode, Poverty, Requires Improvement, School Inspection, Wellbeing, Work Scrutiny, Workload

Reading Time: 3 minutes What silly reasons drive good people out of the teaching profession?

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DfE Policies Teaching and Learning 

6 Teaching Ideas To Bin in 2019

1st January 20192nd January 2019 @TeacherToolkit 6541 Views 11 Comments 2019, American Scientific Association, Appraisal, ASA, Book looks, Curriculum, evidence, Feedback, Graded Lessons, Marking, Measures of Effective Teaching, Ofsted, OfSTED complaints, Ombudsman, Performance Management, Performance-related pay, Professor Rob Coe, Purple Pen, School Inspection, teaching ideas to bin, Threshold, Work Scrutiny

Reading Time: 5 minutes What teaching ideas would you like to say goodbye to in 2019?

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Leadership Ofsted Teaching Secrets 

Are OfSTED Inconsistent At Evaluation?

14th October 201813th October 2018 A Teacher 1739 Views 7 Comments Anonymous, ASCL, Book looks, complaints, Complaints Process, Curriculum, EBacc, Family Fischer Trust, HMI, Lead Inspector, Mythbusting, Ofsted, Parent View, Progress 8, School Inspections, Value Added

Reading Time: 5 minutes How can we trust OfSTED leadership if we cannot raise a complaint about how decisions are reached?

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Leadership Policies Seasonal 

Dear Mrs. Claus

17th December 201723rd December 2017 @TeacherToolkit 1541 Views 0 Comments Assessment, blogs, Book looks, Coaching, coloured pens, Dear Santa, Department for Education, Differentiation, Education, frequency, garded lessons, leadership, Marking, Mrs. Claus, Observations, Ofsted, Policy, Schools, teaching, Wellbeing, Work Scrutiny, Workload

Reading Time: 1 minute What are you hoping to find under the Christmas tree?

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Seasonal Teaching and Learning Workload 

Dear Santa

3rd December 201730th November 2018 @TeacherToolkit 7169 Views 3 Comments Appraisal, Book looks, Chartered College of Teaching, Coaching, Department for Education, DfE, Donald Trump, Graded Lessons, Lesson observations, Marking, Observations, Ofsted, Poll Everywhere, Purple Pen, The End of Average, Todd Rose, Work Scrutiny, Yellow Box

Reading Time: 6 minutes If you could give any Christmas present as a gift to teachers, what would you choose?

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Assessment Research Teaching and Learning 

Live Marking

19th November 201719th November 2017 @TeacherToolkit 9860 Views 3 Comments #MarkPlanTeach, Action Research, Book looks, Centre for Evidence and Social Innovation, Corrections, dialogue, Education Endowment Foundation, EEF, evidence, Feedback, Fishing Without The Bait, frequency, Impact, live marking, manageable, Marking, meaningful, motivational, Ofsted, Progress, Queen’s University Belfast, Research, retrieval practice, school leadership, spaced learning, spaced practice, Speed, verbal dialogue, Verbal Feedback, Wellbeing, Work Scrutiny, Workload

Reading Time: 6 minutes Have you ever tried ‘live-marking’ in class? Of course you have …

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Teaching and Learning 

Fishing Without The Bait

26th July 20165th May 2018 @TeacherToolkit 8191 Views 3 Comments Book looks, Data, MER cycle, Pam Fearnley, Quintin Kynaston, Teaching and Learning, The Life of a Deputy Headteacher, Work Sample, Work Scrutiny

Reading Time: 7 minutes How can we improve the process for schools, teachers and observers when looking at students’ books?

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Leadership Teaching and Learning 

When You Try Too Hard, It Doesn’t Work!

29th November 201529th November 2015 @TeacherToolkit 5005 Views 2 Comments Book looks, Book Sampling, Marking, Work Scrutiny

Reading Time: 7 minutes How can you do what you ought, if you don’t know what you’ve got?

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Leadership Resources Teaching and Learning 

Marking and Feedback Observations

15th November 201530th July 2017 @TeacherToolkit 9050 Views 7 Comments Book looks, Feedback, Marking, MER, Observations, Quality Assurance, Work Scrutiny

Reading Time: 4 minutes How would you go about quality assuring marking, feedback and assessment across a school?

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Leadership Teaching and Learning 

Marking and Work Scrutiny

7th November 20158th November 2015 @TeacherToolkit 19565 Views 3 Comments Book looks, Marking, MER cycle, Monitoring, school leadership, Teaching and Learning, Work Scrutiny

Reading Time: 3 minutes How would you go about monitoring marking consistency and student progress across a large secondary school; as well as aiming to

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Leadership Middle Leadership 

Teaching and Learning One Year Later …

17th October 20156th December 2015 @TeacherToolkit 11638 Views 32 Comments Book looks, Lesson gradings, MER, Middle Leadership, Observations, Teaching and Learning, Work Scrutiny

Reading Time: 4 minutes If you no longer grade individual lessons, how do you monitor the overall quality of teaching and learning in your

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Resources Teaching and Learning 

A Common Sense Approach to Marking

3rd March 201529th April 2018 @TeacherToolkit 8696 Views 15 Comments Assessment, Book looks, Common-sense, Feedback, Marking, Marking Workload Guidance, quality assessment, Quintin Kynaston, The Life of a Deputy Headteacher, Workload

Reading Time: 2 minutes This is a blog about marking workload. If you download this resource, please tweet this link.

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Leadership Resources Teaching and Learning 

Looking At Books: The Life Of A Deputy Headteacher

31st January 201529th April 2018 @TeacherToolkit 11425 Views 8 Comments Book looks, diagnostic feedback, diagnostic marking, Evaluation, Marking, Monitoring, Quintin Kynaston, Resources, Teaching and Learning, The Life of a Deputy Headteacher, Workload

Reading Time: 4 minutes This blog is about book monitoring across an entire school, lead by heads of faculty, designed to improve student progress

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Teaching and Learning 

A Valid Landscape for Teaching and Learning by @TeacherToolkit

16th November 201429th September 2017 @TeacherToolkit 3167 Views 11 Comments @IRIS_Connect, ASCL, Blue Sky Education, Book looks, Feedback, Lesson Study, MER, Observations, Ofsted, PiXL National Conference, Triads, Typicality and Support

Reading Time: 6 minutes The current landscape for teaching and learning is divided. Here, I propose a valid step forward into formative observations without

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Teaching and Learning 

#BookLooks and Mantras: The Ugly Truth by @TeacherToolkit

8th December 201314th February 2016 @TeacherToolkit 2955 Views 9 Comments Book looks, Feedback, leadership, Mantras, Marking, Ofsted, School, The Ugly Truth, Ugly Truth, Vision

Reading Time: 8 minutes I am writing to offer an update, regarding what we have managed to achieve this term and what impact this

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Teaching and Learning 

#Peepshows and #Rubbernecks by @TeacherToolkit

24th October 201323rd August 2015 @TeacherToolkit 2518 Views 1 Comment Book looks, Education, Learning Walks, observation, Ofsted, Open classroom, Peepshow, Peepshows, Rubberneck

Reading Time: 5 minutes Now that I have your attention; this post is all about marking; feedback; re-drafting and book scrutiny.

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