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My impatience with some Ofsted inspectors

Jul 24, 2014 | Category: Featured

We hope we are transparent and honest. I am very keen that the people we inspect have confidence in the quality of our inspections and the quality of our inspectors. I believe the quality of inspecti...

#Ofsted #Sir Michael Wilshaw #Mike Cladingbowl #Sean Harford

Playing the game: Ofsted vs. Civitas

Jul 17, 2014 | Category: Featured

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. John Ruskin On the face of it, this seems both self-evident and obvious: if Ofsted aren't judging quality of teaching in a...

#Ofsted #Civitas #Robert Peal

Is listening really passive?

Jun 30, 2014 | Category: learning

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it. David Hockney Like many others, I got very excited to see this published on the Ofsted website back in February: Inspectors must not...

#Ofsted #listening #active #ADHD #passive

Should Ofsted judge 'quality of teaching'?

May 26, 2014 | Category: Featured

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 teaching....

#Ofsted #TES #lesson observation #Mike Cladingbowl #Sam Freedman

Perverse incentives and how to counter them

Jun 09, 2014 | Category: leadership

Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.Nikita Khrushchev Back in the good old days when the great unwashed could simply be shipped off to the colonies with nary a second...

#Ofsted #Mike Cladingbowl #Chip and Dan Heath #perverse incentives #Pupil Premium #Rolf Dobrelli

Ofsted: The end of the (lesson grading) affair

Jun 04, 2014 | Category: Featured

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 decisi...

#Ofsted #lesson observation #Mike Cladingbowl

A horror story: Does Ofsted get it wrong again?

May 23, 2014 | Category: Featured

Following my the post earlier in the week on the fact that Ofsted inspectors seemingly continue to break the rule with impunity, a number of people got in touch with similar tales of woe. It certainly...

#Ofsted #Mike Cladingbowl #Matthew Coffey

Ofsted inspectors continue to do whatever they like

May 21, 2014 | Category: Featured

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...

#Ofsted #lesson observation #Mike Cladingbowl

The mystery of Oldfield School's missing Ofsted report

Mar 17, 2014 | Category: Featured

Oldfield School in Bath has a long history of being graded Outstanding and throughout Headteacher Kim Sparling has been at the helm. I worked there briefly and took part in their successful 2003 inspe...

#Ofsted #Oldfield School

Don't read these books!

Feb 24, 2014 | Category: blogging

You may have missed it but there was something of a spat on Twitter a few weeks back when one blogger suggested that certain books weren't worth reading. After all sorts of guff about the 'pedagogy po...

#Ofsted #Mike Cladingbowl #The Perfect English Ofsted Lesson