...to subscribe. Through the blog we have been able to explain changes to inspection, highlight processes, and respond to comments. Importantly, the blog has also allowed me to dispel some...
...teachers to be observed and graded by their colleges, to inform self-assessment and staff training – it’s entirely up to college leaders what mechanisms they use to improve the quality...
...to them about timings and what to expect. I tried to put them at ease and remind them not to do anything special for me – to keep to normal...
...conversion have told us the experience was overwhelming. First of all because they had to understand the reasons for the conversion, and then they had to adjust to the bigger...
...full representation of schools across the country or of every different type of school, but it does allows us to gain some insight into different approaches to curriculum design and...
...right knowledge in the right order? Is the curriculum providing pupils with the building blocks of what they need to know and be able to do to succeed in each...
...(SEND) to overcome barriers to learning. How is it building their knowledge and ‘cultural capital’? This is really about knowing and being able to do the things that let them...
...how best to measure reliability. There are a number of considerations here. The most important is deciding which form of reliability to measure. We’ve already looked at inter-rater reliability –...
...about significance, rather than learning about how others have attributed significance to topics or events. Similarly, pupils were encouraged to ‘come up with their own interpretations’ about the past without...
...are to progress in this subject and go on to university or into the world of work?’ Well-ordered curriculums We know too that effective teachers also think carefully about the...