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The dangers of hierarchy: a recommendation for improving Ofsted inspections

Mar 07, 2020 | Category: Featured

One of the many hard lessons learned by the aviation industry is that distributing responsibility and challenging hierarchical authority saves lives. From examining flight recorders and listening to c...

#Ofsted #aviation #Crew Resource Management

Does the new inspection framework trade off reliability against validity?

Jan 15, 2020 | Category: leadership

Yesterday I saw a thread on Twitter from headteacher Stuart Lock on the pros and cons of the new inspection framework:https://twitter.com/StuartLock/status/1216475275514523648?s=20In it he discusses t...

#Ofsted #reliability #validity #Amy Finch #Stuart Lock

Are Ofsted punishing disadvantaged children by penalising three-year GCSE courses?

Jan 14, 2020 | Category: curriculum

Is a broad and balanced curriculum "middle class"?According to an article published in The Times, Sir Daniel Moynihan, CEO of the Harris Federation, has described Ofsted's new inspection framework as...

#Ofsted #Sean Harford #Sir Daniel Moynihan

What do Ofsted reports reveal about the way schools are being inspected under the new framework?

Oct 17, 2019 | Category: leadership

Ofsted's new inspection framework went live at the beginning of September and the first reports have now been published. Anecdotally, I've heard whispers from two different inspections about the sorts...

#Ofsted

How do we know pupils are making progress? Part 1: The madness of flight paths

Mar 23, 2019 | Category: assessment

Schools are desperate to find ways to predict students' progress from year to year and between key stages. Seemingly, the most common approach to solving this problem is to produce some sort of 'fligh...

#Ofsted #Amanda Spielman #Flightpaths

What's wrong with Ofsted's definition of learning?

Feb 04, 2019 | Category: Featured

As everyone already knows, Ofsted have published a draft of the new Inspection Framework which is currently undergoing a process of consultation. Amazingly, one of the most contentious aspects of the...

#Ofsted #Robert Bjork #long-term memory #Paul Kirschner #John Sweller #William James #Hermann Ebbinghaus

Should Ofsted observe lessons?

May 31, 2018 | Category: Featured

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...

#Ofsted #lesson observation

Put down your crystal balls

Jul 03, 2017 | Category: assessment

Many of the schools I visit and work with feel under enormous pressure to predict what their students are likely to achieve in their next set of GCSEs. In the past, this approach sort of made sense. O...

#Ofsted #GCSE #Amanda Spielman #Nicholas Nassim Taleb #predicted grades

How can school inspection get what it wants?

Feb 10, 2017 | Category: leadership

I read a great piece by Dr Becky Allen in Schools Week this morning on inherent unreliability of school inspections. In it she makes the point that human beings are incapable of making reliable, high...

#Ofsted #accountability #Becky Allen #school inspection

Bottom sets and the scourge of low-level disruption

Nov 14, 2016 | Category: behaviour

In many English schools, low-level disruption is the norm. Children talking when expected to be silent, fiddling with equipment and each other, calling out, and generally not being 'on task' are all r...

#Ofsted #EEF #halo effect #expectations #ability setting #low-level disruption