I have worked in different schools and from my experience ofsted doesn’t seem to notice that the shortage of support staff is awful and is part of the reason why some things don’t happen or aren’t done properly. Teachers work insane hours but I don’t think it’s all that acknowledged how much support staff do too.
Ofsted - Fit for purpose?
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philosophical
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No. The vast majority of judgements are purely subjective by dickhead failed educators.
There is a but though.
Schools and individual teachers can’t say we or I am doing good for the children/students, but it’s a secret.
Ofsted is not the way to do it.
There is a but though.
Schools and individual teachers can’t say we or I am doing good for the children/students, but it’s a secret.
Ofsted is not the way to do it.
baldrick
hmmmmm
I thought Amanda Spielman's response to the tragedy of Ruth Perry was seriously inadequate, cold, and defensive. It took Ofsted days to respond and when they did it was 'business as usual'.
Appalling. I hope more establishments feel supported to refuse inspections.
It does need reform. Schools should be supported to improve, not punished. I don't actually know there's any evidence to suggest that inspection in it's current form actually improves education for children.
Appalling. I hope more establishments feel supported to refuse inspections.
It does need reform. Schools should be supported to improve, not punished. I don't actually know there's any evidence to suggest that inspection in it's current form actually improves education for children.
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baldrick
hmmmmm
That's what I was saying, if you quote the full sentence
I suggest that Ofsted is absolutely fit for the purpose it was set up to achieve, which is to embed a neoliberal subjectivity into all aspects of life. It has been spectacularly successful at doing that. The assumptions that all aspects of life are quantifiable and can be ranked, and that meaningful targets can be created from those quantified parameters, are barely even questioned any more. This understanding of reality has, in turn, inculcated perfectionism and an internalised responsibility for systemic failures into several generations of young people, making them much better neoliberal subjects.
If Thatcher was right in the 80s that economics was just the method, with the goal being hearts and minds, then the method in the 2000s moved onto exactly this kind of emphasis on measurement and targets in public services. And it completely succeeded.
If Thatcher was right in the 80s that economics was just the method, with the goal being hearts and minds, then the method in the 2000s moved onto exactly this kind of emphasis on measurement and targets in public services. And it completely succeeded.
Steel Icarus
we move
My college is obsessed with being "Ofsted ever-ready", with rolling deep dives and walkthroughs and Smart Target training and learning walks...
bluescreen
tofu eating wokerati
This is horrendous all round
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
‘We felt like criminals’ – teachers talking Ofsted
Over 3,000 teachers have laid bare the anguish of Ofsted inspections
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
The new OFSTED head is yet another back-to-basics ball breaker IIRC. Doubt he's gonna be the right person to sort all this shit out.
Also academies now get OFSTED-style trust audits where a bunch of senior people from other trust schools turn up, stick their heads into lessons, grill the staff, examine books and generally do the opposite of helping anyone with anything. We had one a few weeks back and my head of department said it was worse than an OFSTED inspection. She's as tough as nails but seemed genuinely rattled by it.
I didn't get the memo about this trust audit thing and had two random adults wander into my lesson first thing on the monday morning. They didn't have the right lanyards on and weren't accompanied by a member of staff so I told them to hop it.
Also academies now get OFSTED-style trust audits where a bunch of senior people from other trust schools turn up, stick their heads into lessons, grill the staff, examine books and generally do the opposite of helping anyone with anything. We had one a few weeks back and my head of department said it was worse than an OFSTED inspection. She's as tough as nails but seemed genuinely rattled by it.
I didn't get the memo about this trust audit thing and had two random adults wander into my lesson first thing on the monday morning. They didn't have the right lanyards on and weren't accompanied by a member of staff so I told them to hop it.
InArduisFouette
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which is surprising in what way ? TERFs hour loves to give the wtiless tools of patriarchy a vocie
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
A few years was twice inspected whilst SENCo and Safeguarding Lead by ISI (the private school equivalent of Ofsted) and I have to say it was nothing like the accounts you hear of Ofsted. They were friendly, courteous and supportive.
Yet another example of "one rule for them..."
Yet another example of "one rule for them..."
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
I haven't said anything was surprising.
and she wasn't given a voice, it was a hostile interview for which she came out looking badly.
starfish2000
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The whole system is designed to be as confrontational as possible and further the agenda to create academy chains and lower teachers wages.
My workplace had a bit of scandal recently and we’ve had to self report to a regulator and I tell you now. Apart from a few managers arses twitching. You’d never notice anything was going on. The whole way teachers are treated. Particularly with regard to mental health, is as misogynistic as it gets. You can really see that it’s a profession full of women.
My workplace had a bit of scandal recently and we’ve had to self report to a regulator and I tell you now. Apart from a few managers arses twitching. You’d never notice anything was going on. The whole way teachers are treated. Particularly with regard to mental health, is as misogynistic as it gets. You can really see that it’s a profession full of women.
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