School Inspections

Ofsted Policies Politics 

How Do Ofsted Select A School For Inspection?

11th February 201911th February 2019 @TeacherToolkit 599 Views 0 Comments Attainment 8, FOI, Freedom Of Information, machine learning, NAHT Accountability Commission, National Audit Office, Ofsted, Parent View, Progrss 8, risk assessment, School Inspection Handbook, School Inspections, School Workforce Census

Reading Time: 3 minutes What metrics are used to determine which school Ofsted will visit next?

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Curriculum Ofsted Workload 

Can One-Day School Inspections Evaluate Curriculum?

25th November 201814th January 2019 @TeacherToolkit 1209 Views 5 Comments Assessment, Bold Beginnings, Clare Sealy, Curriculum, Curriculum Maps, Data, Department for Education, EBacc, James Pembroke, Knowledge organisers, Knowledge Rich, Matthew Benyohai, Ofsted, Progress, Progress 8, Schemes of Work, School Inspections, Sean Harford, Tom Sherrington

Reading Time: 4 minutes Can school inspections steer focus away from data, towards a broad curriculum?

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Leadership Ofsted Teaching Secrets 

Are OfSTED Inconsistent At Evaluation?

14th October 201813th October 2018 A Teacher 1610 Views 7 Comments Anonymous, ASCL, Book looks, complaints, Complaints Process, Curriculum, EBacc, Family Fischer Trust, HMI, Lead Inspector, Mythbusting, Ofsted, Parent View, Progress 8, School Inspections, Value Added

Reading Time: 5 minutes How can we trust OfSTED leadership if we cannot raise a complaint about how decisions are reached?

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DfE Ofsted Policies 

Can Machine Learning Predict A School Inspection?

12th April 201820th January 2019 @TeacherToolkit 3948 Views 10 Comments accountability, Data, Department for Education, Inspection, machine learning, NAHT, NAHT Accountability Commission, Ofsted, Paul Moore, School Inspections, UCL

Reading Time: 5 minutes How do OfSTED determine which schools to inspect? 

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Exams Ofsted 

Outcome Conversations Damage Schools

11th September 201711th September 2017 @TeacherToolkit 4119 Views 4 Comments Data, Data Dashboard, GCSEs, Head teacher, high-attaining pupils, HMI, Inspection, Looked After Children, Ofsted, Outliers, Progress 8, RAISE, RAISEOnline, School Inspections, Senior Leadership, Suicide, Watchdog

Reading Time: 4 minutes What can happen when the ‘wrong data’ is interpreted during an OfSTED inspection?

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Ofsted Teaching and Learning 

The False Proxy Trap

10th September 201710th September 2017 @TeacherToolkit 3376 Views 3 Comments Education, Head teacher, HMI, Inspection, Ofsted, School Inspections, Schools, Senior Leadership, Students, Watchdog

Reading Time: 5 minutes How do we stop OfSTED falling into a ‘false proxy trap’?

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Leadership Ofsted Teaching Secrets 

OfSTED Made Me Leave The Country!

2nd September 201717th August 2017 A Teacher 5573 Views 3 Comments #TeachingSecrets, Data Dashboard, Franz Kafka, Her Majesty's Inspectors, Inadequate, Local Authority, Multi-Academy Trusts, Ofsted, Outliers, Overseas, RAISEOnline, School Inspections, Special Measures

Reading Time: 7 minutes How long do we have to wait before OfSTED, in its current form, becomes untenable?

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Ofsted Research 

Attitudes to OfSTED

6th August 20174th August 2017 @TeacherToolkit 3597 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 

The Life of a Deputy Headteacher: Part 10

23rd July 201729th April 2018 @TeacherToolkit 13055 Views 9 Comments @SLTchat, Behaviour, Consultancy, Department for Education, DfE, Exclusions, Harris Federation, Illness, Inspection, leadership, Michaela Community School, Ofsted, Preferred Partners, Professional development, Pupil Premium, Quintin Kynaston, Resignation, School Inspections, school leadership, Teaching and Learning, The Life of a Deputy Headteacher, Wellbeing

Reading Time: 7 minutes When does ‘the life of a deputy headteacher’ become untenable?

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Leadership Policies Teaching and Learning 

It’s Not Statutory

2nd July 20171st July 2017 @TeacherToolkit 7041 Views 2 Comments flaws, Inconsistency, Inspection, leadership, Learning Policy, Marking, Myths, Ofsted, Policies, School Inspections, Teaching and Learning

Reading Time: 4 minutes Should schools have a teaching and learning policy?

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DfE Leadership Ofsted 

21 Rhetorical Questions

28th May 201722nd May 2018 @TeacherToolkit 11089 Views 5 Comments accountability, Behaviour, challenging, Consultation, Department for Education, DfE, Fair Funding, Inadequate, inspectors, MAT, Multi Academy Trust, Ofsted, OfSTED complaints, opaque, Outstanding, Recruitment, Retention, School Inspection, School Inspections, SEN, Senior Leadership, senior teacher, Special Measures, transparency, Zero Tolerance

Reading Time: 2 minutes What rhetorical questions would you ask ‘about education’?

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Psychology Teaching and Learning 

The Curse of Knowledge

19th March 201719th March 2017 @TeacherToolkit 4321 Views 1 Comment Henry L. Roediger III, Knowledge, Lesson gradings, Making It Stick, Mark A. McDaniel, Memory, Observations, Peter C. Brown, Recall, School Inspections, Teaching and Learning

Reading Time: 3 minutes Can mastery and knowledge (of a subject / topic / process) go against an individual?

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Ofsted 

OfSTED Reliability

8th March 201729th April 2017 @TeacherToolkit 4193 Views 3 Comments Amanda Spielman, Ofsted, Reliability, Research, School Inspections, Validity

Reading Time: 3 minutes How reliable are OfSTED inspections and the overall assessments of the inspection teams?

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Ofsted 

10 Goals for OfSTED

20th November 2016 @TeacherToolkit 7260 Views 0 Comments Geoff Moorcroft, Isle of Man, Ofsted, School Inspections, Sean Harford

Reading Time: 7 minutes What areas for improvement would you ask of OfSTED?

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Leadership Ofsted 

@OfstedNews Say Sorry by @TeacherToolkit

24th March 201517th May 2015 @TeacherToolkit 2453 Views 16 Comments @LeadingLearner, Inspection, Lead Inspector, Letter of complaint, national results, Ofsted, Requires Improvement, School Inspections, Sean Harford

Reading Time: 5 minutes This is another blog about the invalidity and unreliability of Ofsted.

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