Lesson observations

Ofsted Teaching and Learning Workload 

7 Ofsted Inspection Myths for Teachers

15th April 201914th April 2019 @TeacherToolkit 613 Views 0 Comments 5 Minute Lesson Plan, Angel Solutions, Differentiation, diversity, Equality, Graded Lessons, ICT, iPads, leadership, Lesson Objectives, Lesson observations, Lesson planning, Myths, Ofsted, planning, Workload

Reading Time: 2 minutes Are you producing things in your school that you don’t need to be doing?

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NQTs Research Teaching and Learning 

Lesson Observation: “Not terrible though?”

7th January 20196th January 2019 Phil Naylor 994 Views 0 Comments BBC2, Behaviour, Bill Gates, Castle School Education Trust (CSET), Coaching, cognitive bias, Doug Lemov, Dylan Wiliam, Feedback, initial teacher training, Lesson observations, Ofsted, ResearchEd, School, Teacher Development Trust

Reading Time: 3 minutes How can we improve our lesson observations?

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Policies Staff Well Being Teaching and Learning 

Teaching Ideas To Bin: Graded Lesson Observations

1st September 20181st September 2018 John Dabell 1154 Views 3 Comments Lesson observations, Measures of effective teaching project, Research, Robert Coe

Reading Time: 1 minute Is your school still grading lesson observations?

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Ofsted Research Teaching and Learning 

Six Models Of Lesson Observation

3rd June 20185th June 2018 @TeacherToolkit 4095 Views 1 Comment Amanda Spielman, Classroom Assessment Scoring System, Framework for Teaching, Generic Dimensions of Teacher Quality, International Comparative Analysis of Learning and Teaching, International System for Teacher Observation and Feedback, Lesson observations, Mathematical Quality of Instruction, Observations, Ofsted, qualitative, qualitative research, Quan, Research, Subjective

Reading Time: 4 minutes What do OfSTED want to gain from lesson observations?

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DfE Policies Teaching and Learning 

9 Teaching Ideas to Bin in 2018

1st January 201831st December 2017 @TeacherToolkit 15787 Views 27 Comments #OfSTEDBanners, Amanda Spielman, Appraisal, Assessment, banners, Bin, books looks, coloured pens, Data, Department for Education, Graded Lessons, Jarlath O’Brien, Lesson observations, letterheads, logos, Loic Menzies, Marking, MockSTED, Nick Gibb, Ofsted, Performance-related pay, polarisation, Progressive, PRP, Richard Kennett, Senior Leadership, Teaching Ideas, Tom Sherrington, Traditional, work scrutinies, Workload, Yellow Box

Reading Time: 7 minutes What teaching ideas would you like to say goodbye to in 2018?

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Seasonal Teaching and Learning Workload 

Dear Santa

3rd December 201730th November 2018 @TeacherToolkit 7226 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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Ofsted Research 

Attitudes to OfSTED

6th August 20174th August 2017 @TeacherToolkit 3714 Views 0 Comments gradings, Lesson observations, lesson plans, Ofsted, Research, School Inspections, Sean Harford, Senior Leadership, Survey, teacher attitudes, YouGov

Reading Time: 3 minutes What are teachers’ attitudes towards the school inspectorate, OfSTED? 

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Leadership Ofsted Teaching and Learning 

10 @OfstedNews MythBusters by @TeacherToolkit

11th March 201524th March 2015 @TeacherToolkit 4368 Views 5 Comments @OfstedNews, Graded observations, Lesson observations, Lesson planning, Marking, Mythbusting, Ofsted, True or False?

Reading Time: 2 minutes This is blog about the recent updates published by OfSTED on 11th March 2015. This document is commonly known as,

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Research Students Teaching and Learning Thunks 

What is the Point of Copying Lesson Objectives? by @rpd1972

18th January 20155th February 2015 @TeacherToolkit 7617 Views 11 Comments Action Research, Debra Kidd, Formative Assessment, Lesson Objectives, Lesson observations, MA action research, Summative Assessment, Teaching and Learning, Thunks, TTkitThunks

Reading Time: 4 minutes This is a blog about action research and the purpose of Lesson Objectives used in teaching and learning.

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Research Teaching and Learning 

Teachers and Lesson Observations by @DrMattOLeary

10th September 201431st October 2015 @TeacherToolkit 5839 Views 9 Comments Academic Research, classroom observation, Graded observations, Hawthorne Effect, Lesson observations

Reading Time: 4 minutes Why do teachers feel so strongly about lesson observation?

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Leadership Ofsted Resources Teaching and Learning 

#BeyondLessonGrades by @TeacherToolkit and @LeadingLearner

22nd June 201429th September 2017 @TeacherToolkit 4732 Views 5 Comments Challabing, Lesson gradings, Lesson observations, Quality of Teaching, Reliability, Schools, teaching, Validity

Reading Time: 3 minutes It may be that 2014 will be seen as a pivotal year in changing how we judge the quality of

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Leadership Teacher Training Teaching and Learning 

Getting it right: The value of observations (Part 2/2)

7th May 201418th December 2018 @TeacherToolkit 3578 Views 11 Comments Appraisal, Good teacher, Good teaching, judgements, Lesson observations, Ofsted

Reading Time: 3 minutes In April 2014, I raised “The importance of observations and ‘Getting It Right’ (Part 1)” and highlighted the open versus

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Teaching and Learning 

Stepping away from observational judgements by @TeacherTookit

13th February 201412th August 2014 @TeacherToolkit 6211 Views 23 Comments Inspections, judgements, Lesson judgements, Lesson observations, Ofsted, Progress over time, Stepping away from observational judgements

Reading Time: 7 minutes Conundrum: If we are to truly move away from (one-off) lesson observation judgements – particularly, on teachers of individual lessons

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