Reading time, 4 minutes: In March 2014, after a coaching and mentoring session, I posted 30 simple questions for the teacher, middle leader and senior teacher. You can also find some very useful reflection questions for the ‘outstanding’ classroom teacher. These self-review questions have proven very popular with readers and serve as a catalyst for this follow-up blog.
Reading time, 5 minutes: The online blogosphere provides teachers with the opportunity to reflect online and use one another to bounce-back dialogue. This reciprocal-feedback is an integral component that defines us as teachers within the profession. I would never have thought such an opportunity existed when I first started out in the classroom in 1993!
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, 5 minutes: This blog is based on my teaching experience alone.
Reading time, 2 minutes: This post answers the 33rd question from my TeacherToolkit Thinking page of Thunks.
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, 7 minutes: This blog does not contain any academic research, or information regarding Ofsted; effect-sizes; knowledge vs. skills; or even something useful about lesson judgements.
Reading time, 3 minutes: Are you the kind of teacher, you would want your own children to have?
Reading time, 5 minutes: This is a #SecretOfsted @TeacherToolkit article: A teacher’s experience of Ofsted, in Gloucestershire.
Reading time, 6 minutes: “The UK education system faces a range of inter-related challenges: students from non-selective state schools are under-represented at top universities; with schools increasingly accountable for progression to higher education.” (Source)
Reading time, 7 minutes: How does a teacher get started with action research?
Reading time, 3 minutes: This is a Secret @TeacherToolkit article: A teacher’s experience of Ofsted in London.