Stepping in for our Principal last week I picked out a few leader comments that struck a chord.
How good is a school? How good are your middle leaders?
On making judgements about learning and teaching;
I am trying to spend more time inside classrooms rather than outside them.
Outstanding means everyone tighten up to become good; loosen up to become outstanding (and beyond?)
Lastly, I really enjoyed Dr Paul Lawrence’s presentation describing investigation of teaching standards through the staff self-assessment. Staff were asked to self assess their teaching day and submit their reflections. How else could you gather 400+ assessments in one day? My most immediate thought was that for staff to offer accurate reflections, they needed to know what Outstanding, good, satisfactory and unsatisfactory teaching looks like? That can only be a good for a teaching organisation. This data can then be compared to formal teacher observations. Interesting stuff, and I agree, why shouldn’t we trust staff self assessments, they are after all professional assessors?
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