Sentences with phrase «teaching quality inspectors»

To assess teaching quality inspectors must be «guided by the response and engagement of pupils» and inspectors direct observations must be «supplemented by a range of other evidence».

Not exact matches

Reports from school inspectors over the past year suggest that in primary schools the quality of teaching is poorer in maths than in any other subject.

Welsh schools are showing signs of improvement but still face wide variation in teaching quality across the country, according to the new chief schools inspector in Wales.

The chief inspector warned that teacher retention was critical to maintaining a quality teaching workforce and maintained that «unless we get leadership right then we will still continue to have problems.»

It matters not a jot how much high quality teaching and learning can be observed in the tiny sample of lessons inspected, because having been forced to make the judgement on the hopelessly invalid school performance data, all the inspectors do in the lessons they look at is to think up comments to make to justify the inadequate / requires improvement judgement already made before they set foot in the building.

«Inspectors should not grade an aspect such as teaching, unless circumstances are exceptional, without considering the broad range of evidence that they can gather during a visit to a lesson — for example, the behaviour of the students and how well they are managed, subject knowledge, the standard of work completed in books, the quality of marking and so on — and use this to come to a view about what teaching is like for those students and its impact on their learning over time.

The quality of teaching in Wales needs to improve if overall standards in schools are to have any chance of increasing, inspectors say.

If based only on lesson observations, cite the Ofsted position as recently adopted - Ofsted now says that basing an assessment of quality of a teacher's teaching on a single lesson observation is not reliable, and Ofsted inspectors will not be allocating a grade to single lessons at all in future.

The chief inspector for schools in England, Sir Michael Wilshaw, has criticised schools for spending money on TAs instead of teachers, saying good - quality teaching was the best way to raise standards.

Ofsted inspectors found leaders at St Anthony's had been too slow to tackle weaknesses in the quality of teaching.

For leadership and management inspectors must assess the school's use of performance management and effectiveness of strategies for improving teaching, the effectiveness of procedures for monitoring quality of teaching and learning and the extent to which underperformance is tackled.

Previously, inspectors measured schools in 27 categories but that is being reduced to four: pupil achievement, quality of teaching, leadership and management and the behaviour and safety of pupils.

But Sir Michael, who took up his chief inspector post last week, said inspections taking place without notice provided an opportunity for inspectors «to do what's really important - going in and inspecting quality, particularly teaching».