If developing the quality of teaching is a leadership imperative is it possible for us all to teach like a champion with the right professional development? I’ve been reading, which is always a dangerous thing, or more correctly re-reading a number of books and documents in order to develop a new professional development programme. Continue reading
A year on from when we stopped grading individual lessons I’m wondering how much progress we have made. Just before the summer I reviewed our new process for evaluating the quality of teaching, with middle leaders, and made a number of tweaks to the system though no substantive changes were suggested. Continue reading
We’ve identified data, feedback, research and experience as four important sources of information to assist with the further development and improvement of teaching and learning. The use of data and feedback to inform teaching and learning (DAFITAL) is our way of implementing Data Driven Instruction which can be found in Leverage Leadership. It is well worth reading. Continue reading