Teaching and Learning One Year Later …
Reading time, 4 minutes: If you no longer grade individual lessons, how do you monitor the overall quality of teaching and learning in your school?
Tag: Observations
The Ripple Effect
Reading time, 2 minutes: Our own teaching rarely takes into account the views of colleagues, parents and students, but in this post I remind the reader that these views must be considered.
Watching Yourself Teach is Transformational
Reading time, 3 minutes: Have you ever watched yourself teach a lesson?
The Observational Scalpel
Reading time, 5 minutes: This is a blog about observations.
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.
Kick-starting @IRIS_Connect by @TeacherToolkit
Reading time, 5 minutes: This is a blog about setting up @IRIS_Connect in your school.
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 […]
A Valid Landscape for Teaching and Learning by @TeacherToolkit
Reading time, 6 minutes: The current landscape for teaching and learning is divided. Here, I propose a valid step forward into formative observations without lesson gradings. This is a pragmatic and conceptual blogpost.
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!
Typicality and Support by @TeacherToolkit
Reading time, 4 minutes: Several months ago, I shared a blog about Progress Over Time and what this ‘evidence trail’ without lesson gradings may look like for teachers, for all types of observations and leadership teams.
Observation as a Tool to Enhance Teacher Learning, Part 2 by @DrMattOLeary
Reading time, 5 minutes: In Dr. Matt O’Leary’s first blog, he asked; “if teachers are so used to being observed, why should it be a big bone of contention?”
Thirty words, 30 seconds by @TeacherToolkit #Thirty30
Reading time, < 1 minuteThirty words in 30 seconds is designed to provide CPD advice for teachers and schools. Advice doesn’t need to be complicated … .