Sean Harford

DfE Ofsted Policies 

What Does Ofsted’s New Framework Say?

20th January 201920th January 2019 @TeacherToolkit 2272 Views 1 Comment Amanda Spielman, Bonuses, Consultation, Curriculum, Education Inspection Framework, Freedom Of Information, gender gap, league tables, Ofsted, Parent View, Performance Management, Professor Daniel Muijs, Quality of Education, School Inspection, Sean Harford, Workload

Reading Time: 3 minutes What does Ofsted’s draft consultation say in the proposed inspection framework?

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Curriculum Ofsted Workload 

Can One-Day School Inspections Evaluate Curriculum?

25th November 201814th January 2019 @TeacherToolkit 1219 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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CPD Ofsted Teaching and Learning 

The New Meaning of Progress

29th October 201825th October 2018 David Lowbridge-Ellis 1378 Views 7 Comments acceleration, Assessment, Culture, Knowledge, language, Ofsted, Progress, Sean Harford, The Thick Of It, understanding

Reading Time: 4 minutes What does progress really mean?

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Assessment Teaching and Learning Workload 

4 Steps To Ditching Differentiation

15th October 201815th October 2018 David Lowbridge-Ellis 7097 Views 11 Comments challenge, Differentiation, myth, Ofsted, planning, scaffolding, Sean Harford, stretch, Wellbeing, Workload

Reading Time: 4 minutes How can we change the differentiation narrative?

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Ofsted Policies Staff Well Being 

Teaching Ideas To Bin: Mocksteds

11th August 201820th July 2018 John Dabell 1927 Views 0 Comments accountability, Amanda Spielman, Anxiety, consultants, Luke Tryl, MockSTED, Ofsted, rehearsal, Sean Harford, Wellbeing

Reading Time: 3 minutes Has your school ever had a ‘mocksted’?

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DfE Leadership Ofsted 

Is The Fear Narrative Out Of Proportion?

8th February 201810th February 2018 @TeacherToolkit 1767 Views 2 Comments @TeacherToolkit, Amanda Spielman, blogs, British Values, busload of heads, Curriculum, Education, evidence, Examinations, Exams, gaming the system, hijab, HMCI, HMI, Inspection, leadership, Michael Gove, Michael Wilshaw, Nick Gibb, Ofsted, Parent View, Peter Wilby, School Inspection, Schools, Sean Harford, Teacher Toolkit, Teacher View, teaching, Testing, The Guardian, Trojan Horse

Reading Time: 3 minutes Is the inspection ‘fear narrative’ out of proportion claims OfSTED’s chief, Amanda Spielman?

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DfE Leadership Ofsted 

Raging Against The Machine

4th February 20182nd February 2018 @TeacherToolkit 1812 Views 3 Comments #OfSTEDBanners, Alex Tomlin, Amanda Spielman, Conservatives, Department for Education, DfE, Exams, Flip the System, Inspections, Interview, Jelmer Evers, Justine Greening, labour, league tables, National Education Union, NEU, Nick Gibb, Ofsted, Sean Harford

Reading Time: 6 minutes How can we sort our education system once and for all?

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Blogging Technology 

Create Engaging Video Content

9th September 20178th September 2017 @TeacherToolkit 2781 Views 0 Comments #TMTrafalgar, advertising, Amanda Spielman, Android, Anna Pedroza, App Store, Apps, bloggers, EdTech, GIFs, iPhone, Photos, PicPlayPost, Sean Harford, stitching, Teacher Training, technology, Tom Rogers, Ty Goddard, Video, vlogs, Writing, YouTube

Reading Time: 1 minute How can you make more engaging content for your classroom, for blogs and for social media in general?

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Ofsted Research 

Attitudes to OfSTED

6th August 20174th August 2017 @TeacherToolkit 3607 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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Curriculum Ofsted 

High Attaining Students or Rapid Graspers?

22nd July 201722nd July 2017 @TeacherToolkit 2955 Views 0 Comments Conference, Curriculum, Education, high attainers, high attaining, Mathematics, Maths, Myths, National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics, NCETM, Ofsted, rapid graspers, Sean Harford

Reading Time: 3 minutes What does ‘rapid graspers’ actually mean?

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DfE Ofsted Twitter 

The Ladybird Book of Edu-Twitter

4th January 201728th September 2017 @TeacherToolkit 6190 Views 0 Comments Andy Percival, Dame Alison Peacock DBE, Grammar Schools, James Pembroke, Ladybird Book, Maddy Barnes, Martin Galway, Michael Tidd, Michaela School, Nicky Morgan, Sean Harford, Simon Smith, The Michaela Way, The Rochford Review, Theresa May, Twitter

Reading Time: 3 minutes What have been your education highlights over the past 12 months?

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Ofsted 

10 Goals for OfSTED

20th November 2016 @TeacherToolkit 7267 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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DfE Ofsted 

No More Teaching and Learning

6th June 20166th June 2016 @TeacherToolkit 4705 Views 0 Comments Department for Education, DfE, Education Excellence Everywhere, Ofsted, Sean Harford, White Paper

Reading Time: 4 minutes How long before a judgement on ‘Teaching, Learning and Assessment’ is removed from school inspections?

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Ofsted 

What’s The Point?

8th March 201615th March 2016 @TeacherToolkit 4126 Views 1 Comment Andrew Morrish, inspectors, Ofsted, Sean Harford

Reading Time: 3 minutes What’s the point of Ofsted visiting a school in the first place?

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Ofsted 

Would You Lead a Requires Improvement School? by @TeacherToolkit

27th May 201516th July 2016 @TeacherToolkit 3555 Views 8 Comments Ofsted, Ofsted's National Director for Schools, Queen's Speech, Requires Improvement, Sean Harford, Special Measures

Reading Time: 3 minutes This is a blog about what would motivate headteachers to take on the leadership of a Requires Improvement or Special

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Interview Ofsted 

9 Questions for OfSTED’s @HarfordSean by @TeacherToolkit

7th May 201517th May 2015 @TeacherToolkit 4289 Views 5 Comments ASCL, CAMHS, EFA, Inspection, John MacIntosh, LEA, Life After Levels, Ofsted, Raise Online, School Inspection, Sean Harford, Serco

Reading Time: 7 minutes This is a blog about my 1-2-1 meeting at OfSTED headquarters with Sean Harford on 23 April 2015.

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Teaching and Learning 

Education Panorama (May ’15) by @TeacherToolkit

2nd May 201530th July 2017 @TeacherToolkit 3840 Views 4 Comments @Disidealist, @scrtinspector, Blogging, Education Panorama, May, Newsletter, Sean Harford, Secretary of State for Education, TMLondon, Top Blogs

Reading Time: 4 minutes This is my 13th edition of Education Panorama. In total, my newsletters have shared more than 650 educational blogposts from

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