Constantly Tweaking Teaching and Learning by @TeacherToolkit
Reading Time: 4 minutes This is a simple blog about teaching and learning tweaks in a landscape without (one-off) lesson grades.
Tag: Lesson gradings
To Grade or Not to Grade? by @TeacherToolkit
Reading Time: 3 minutes This is quick follow-up blog to this post; A Valid Landscape for Teaching and Learning that I presented at @Optimus_Ed conference last week and at the @PiXLClub national conference today. In the is blog you will be able to download my full presentation and seek clarification (or at least my view so far) regarding a […]
Observing the Observers:
Reading Time: 9 minutes This is a blog about my experience of teaching and learning (under the revised September 2014 framework) when Ofsted enter your school gates. This blog is not about the overall experience and the various areas that are judged during a Section 8 inspection visit. This is all about inspectors observing lessons without gradings!
Let’s Talk About Teaching by @TeacherToolkit
Reading Time: 3 minutes Today, I delivered one of my first CPD sessions to all teaching staff at my school. This blog shares the key headlines and the resource in full.
#BeyondLessonGrades by @TeacherToolkit and @LeadingLearner
Reading Time: 3 minutes It may be that 2014 will be seen as a pivotal year in changing how we judge the quality of teaching. The move from grading individual lessons to viewing teaching, students’ work and progress over time and in a more sophisticated way has only just begun.