The Importance of Good School Governance
Reading Time: 7 minutes Do you work closely with the governors in your school? And if so, how well do you know them and how well-informed are they?
Tag: Mike Cladingbowl
No More Grades. A Suggestion by @TeacherToolkit
Reading Time: 2 minutes This is another blog about lesson gradings and the Ofsted pilot, conducted in the Midlands in June 2014. I also offer a suggestion, regardless of whether or not you are in favour of individual lesson gradings.
Hurrah for @OfstedNews! #NoMoreGrades by @TeacherToolkit
Reading Time: 4 minutes Mike Cladingbowl (@MCladingbowl) realsed this document today (4th June) on the Ofsted website.
The @OfstedNews headlines
Reading Time: 3 minutes “Since 2009, inspectors have been instructed not to grade the overall quality of a lesson they visit.” Here are the headlines clarified from Ofsted’s, Mike Cladingbowl’s article, published today. If you are a teacher – who has received an observation judgement in your career (particularly since 2009) – and do NOT read this document; then […]
An edu-blogger mandate for @OfstedNews by @TeacherToolkit
Reading Time: 5 minutes If you have been following my blogs recently, you will be fully aware of what has happened today. There is so much to blog here; and I have promised myself to just share the headlines from today’s meeting at Ofsted headquarters – Aviation House. Kingsway, London. We have also been promised the minutes from today, […]
#SecretOfsted: A special school experience for @OfstedNews
Reading Time: 6 minutes … The location and identity of this school, is not disclosed in the following article, but, the relevant Ofsted report is to be passed to Mike Cladingbowl for consideration at this week’s Ofsted meeting. This #SecretOfsted post, is written by a teacher who works in a Special School in London.
#Vamoose! I’m off… to a meeting with @OfstedNews
Reading Time: 5 minutes Over the course of the past 18 months, the grass-roots Twitter-channel of @SLTchat has slowly made its voice heard in the echelons of those that sit above us in the educational-hierarchy. As a result, recently I posted how the social-media epoch is out-dating Ofsted and The Department for Education. As a result, I have been […]