Category Archives: Ofsted

I have this little theory.  The Ofsted criteria is not responsible for most of the dumbed down teaching that I see when I visit schools.  In fact, it is far more likely to be the head teacher’s screwed up interpretation … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Your Mileage May Vary:
So last August I started worrying about our upcoming Ofsted visit. The GCSE debacle hit us hard and our key indicators tanked. This would mean our Raise report would turn into a red…

Originally posted on @foxymusiced Blog:
As a school we had been expecting a visit all year. Hit massively by the AQA debacle last summer our results had unfairly tanked. A pupil from year 11 robbed of his opportunity of an…

Originally posted on The Long Walk:
In two earlier posts (see 1 & 2) I argued that school managers who rely on a ‘progress week’ of Ofsted style lesson observations or managers who try to formalise learning walks are ineffective…

When you’ve got the Secretary of State for Education in England acknowledging concerns about Ofsted’s consistency in inspections and someone as well-connected as his former special adviser, Sam Freedman, saying similar things, then you know that the frustrations of teachers and headteachers at the … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Scenes From The Battleground:
I have blogged before about the OFSTED good practice videos and how they, at best, show a very limited range of often mediocre practice, and at worst, show some really trendy rubbish (flip cameras…