Are we any clearer? Ofsted explain what they do and don’t do
The story so far… On Tuesday I, and four other education bloggers met with Ofsted’s National Director of Schools Mike Cladingbowl to discuss, among other things, now and why lessons are graded by...
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Ofsted’s Evaluation Form: the next skirmish!
The ‘do they/don’t they’ buggers’ muddle of whether or not Ofsted inspectors are supposed to grade lessons hasn’t really been put to rest. Schools’ National Director, Mike Cladingbowl’s attempts at...
View ArticleOfsted inspectors continue to do whatever they like
A few days a go after reading and retweeting this blog post from @cazzypot on the ongoing vagaries and inconsistencies of Ofsted, A head of MFL at a school in Hounslow got in touch to let me know how...
View ArticleShould Ofsted judge ‘quality of teaching’?
We all know, that as well as giving an overall grade, Ofsted give schools an individual judgement against 4 criteria: attainment, behaviour & safety, leadership & management, and quality of...
View ArticleOfsted: The end of the (lesson grading) affair
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. Ralph Waldo Emerson Back in 2011 I started to decide that grading lessons was wrong. I wasn’t exactly sure how to justify this...
View Article5 questions to guard against availability bias and made-up data
The cost of bad data is the illusion of knowledge – Stephen Hawking What’s more likely to kill you? A shark or a hot water tap? We’ve all heard stories of killer sharks, but as yet Spielberg hasn’t...
View ArticleYou can’t teach an old teacher new tricks…so sack them.
I rarely reblog posts on my site, but in this case I wanted to make an exception for two (make that three) reasons: 1. This is @cazzbooth’s inaugural post I’d like to do my ‘umble best to help her...
View ArticleCan we improve school interviews? Part 1: A brief review of the research
Recruitment for most employers is straightforward: you advertise, read through applications, invite the people you like in for an interview, think about it for a bit and then enter into negotiations...
View ArticleCan we improve school interviews? Part 3: The interview lesson
In Part 1 of this series I reviewed some of the evidence on what makes for effective interviews, and in Part 2 I looked specifically at creating a less biased, more structured formal interview. In this...
View ArticleShould Ofsted observe lessons?
As you may have seen, Ofsted have published a report which lays the ground work on how they might start observing lessons once more: Six models of lesson observation: an international perspective. Most...
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