Can I ask what? As far as I am aware, OfSTED want good teaching, good behaviour, good record keeping and good progress. Which are the very basic things I want from a school too
Maybe in theory, but not in that order, and certainly not with that weighting.
What ofsted want above and beyond all else is good record keeping, to the extent that you are able to find the information on what you said to each pupil in each lesson,, including what proportion of boys/ girls you spoke to, as well as what proportion of gays/straights, immigrants/natives travellers/ forces children, etc etc etc. You are also expected to know, ( speaking as a maths teacher) what level English a particular student is on, and record how you are stretching that level of English during your maths lesson, and record HOW YOU KNOE YOU HAVE SUCCEEDED
In other words, it is not enough just to use challenging vocabulary, and make it accessible to the student.
You have to ASSESS AND RECORD exactly how challenging the vocabulary used for each pupil is, ASSESS AND RECORD whether each pupil has made progress in English in your lesson, including starting and ending sublevels every six weeks, and then statistically analyse whether your gay and straight pupils etc are making the same progress, in English ( in maths lessons)
All of this leads to no time what so ever being left for planning, teaching and assessing maths.
This is what ofsted want. Manic assessing and recording and statistical analysis and intervention planning to the detriment of all else.
At the start of last term, I calculated that over 100 full staff days ( as in around 10 teachers for a full two weeks) had been spent on statistically analysing the GCSE results, in every possible format.
Why?
It doesn't benefit one single student one iota.
And ofsted insist and demand other pointless exercises.
Writing up and copying lesson objectives.
Why?
each teacher spends 5 mins or so per lesson, so half and hour a day, so two and a half hours a week. The class takes much longer, possibly up to 5 hours a week. For no reason.
My DC and their friends have refused point blank to write out learning objectives since around year 8, when they got sick of the pointless, patronising waste of time.
And how about the PSHE? My tutor group spent longer filling out the feedback forms each week than they did learning any PSHE - again, a specific instruction from and ofsted inspector. And I spent longer filing it than teaching it, and once filed, the files were never opened again ever. This is the way a lot of ofsted paperwork goes.
I've been in a school graded outstanding, and yes it was a total con. The inspectors couldn't see what was right in front of their noses. Many staff walked out of the school in disgust as a protest at the result, and within weeks a pupil lost a lung in a stabbing, foreseeable, and preventable, but the violence was not noticed by ofsted.
I've been in a school graded down because an inspector heard a pupil swear.
There was no acknowledgement that we were offering an education to pupils no other school would take, including sweary ones! And swearing wasn't there worst problem.
Without us, those pupils would have been on the street robbing people, well some of them still are, but they had an opportunity from us that no one else woud give them, and some of them took it.
I have known a school fail ofsted for because the security guard on the gate recognised the ofsted inspector on the second day, and let him in without checking his security pass! Instant fail.
I could go on.
Ofsted is utterly meaningless. School statistics are utterly meaningless in most cases - speaking as a statistician, the significance levels are derisible,
Ofsted decides what is "good practice" according to a combination of political correctness, novelty and vanity. Their general recommendations are not founded in any genuine research or understanding of education, and their conclusions and recommendations for individual schools are frequently more or less random, or at best a reflection of the cover up and PR job achieved by the school.
They are a bunch of twats.
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