#FormativeLessonObs by @TeacherToolkit and @LeadingLearner
Reading Time: 3 minutes The world of lesson observation is evolving and changing for the better.
Reading Time: 3 minutes The world of lesson observation is evolving and changing for the better.
Reading Time: 5 minutes I have a bee in my bonnet and a professional-personal dilemma that I’d like to share with my readers.
Reading Time: 4 minutes As Ofsted continue to face yet more challenges over the validity of lesson observations, I discuss how best we can develop as teachers and ask the reader, ‘how would you like to be observed?’
Reading Time: 4 minutes Almost three months have now passed since Ofsted announced the ground-breaking news, that inspectors would no longer be grading individual lessons. Except that it wasn’t that ground-breaking. Apparently, this had been their instructions since 2009. Who knew?
Reading Time: 7 minutes The role of observations over the last few weeks, if not months, has debated the purpose of observations; the place – if any – for 20 minute observations; progress over time; one-off, snapshot judgements; the purpose of OFSTED and so forth and so forth.
Reading Time: 3 minutes The plans to abandon grading observations; teachers or teaching – however you define it – is an opportunity for all schools to raise the profile of peer-to-peer coaching and finally eradicate the stigmata of pigeon-holing teachers!
Reading Time: 5 minutes This is a #SecretOfsted @TeacherToolkit article: A teacher’s experience of Ofsted, in Gloucestershire.
Reading Time: 3 minutes This is a Secret @TeacherToolkit article: A teacher’s experience of Ofsted in London.
Reading Time: 8 minutes If you have been hiding under a rock, you may be unaware, that there is currently a wealth of discussion regarding the validity and future role of lesson observations in England.
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