The world of lesson observation is changing and changing for the better. The last six month has seen a move to judging the quality of teaching rather than grading individual lessons and Ofsted trialling no grading within lessons. This must only be a start. The next big challenge – the one that could radically transform the quality of teaching – is a focus on #FormativeLessonObs. Continue reading
If there is little trust in the system then it’s difficult to put in place an intelligent accountability system. If we haven’t actually agreed the key end points of education for our young people it is impossible. The current accountability system isn’t working from the basis of agreed end points and lacks the necessary subsidiarity thinking to be considered intelligent – apart from that it’s OK. Well there is the issue of validity and reliability of judgements but we’ve never bothered about that so why start now? If we want to be great we need to reframe our thinking. Continue reading
My son has just set up his own blog site. Thought this was a great little post so I am sharing it with you #ProudDad