Courses
Improving the Grade for Teaching, Training and Learning in Your Curriculum Area
Intended audience:
Programme Managers, Curriculum Managers, Course Team Leaders, Section Managers Quality Improvement Managers and all staff with responsibility for improving teaching and learning.
Focus:
NB: This event will be delivered using The New Inspection Framework
How effective are teaching, training and learning? According to Inspectors, standards are constantly rising and Colleges can’t settle for satisfactory teaching and learning. As inspectors use college’s own grade profiles, together with a sample of their own observations to make judgements, there is pressure for curriculum leaders to grade lessons accurately and to make sure that the grade profile is improving.
Grading teaching is challenging. ‘Satisfactory’ can range from ‘barely satisfactory’ to ‘bordering on good’ and improvement can be slow. Observers may even be tempted to use two grades or even shift the grade upwards to demonstrate improvements.
This session focuses on what inspectors think makes a lesson good or better and how to grade lessons accurately. It examines practical strategies for improving teaching and learning within your team and for engaging the team in working together to share good practice – another Ofsted desirable. You will examine ways to quantify improvements in teaching and learning to provide positive evidence for inspection particularly if the overall grade profile is slow in moving from satisfactory rather than good.
Purpose:
During this event you will:
- identify aspects of teaching and learning that need to be improved
- explore what the inspectors are looking for
- use performance in aspects of teaching and learning to support accurate grading
- develop ways to use the strengths of your team to motivate staff and drive improvements in teaching and
learning - quantify improvements in teaching and learning not immediately obvious from the overall grade profile
THIS COURSE IS ALSO AVAILABLE FOR IN-HOUSE DELIVERY
What others have said ...
"Informative in terms of preparing for inspection, knowing the key issues to focus on." Nick Brazil, Director of Faculty, Swansea College
