Ofsted Criteria and Lesson Observation for Secondary Schools

A course to help Secondary Schools make sense of the latest 2014/15 Observation Criteria and to help ensure that their own observation judgements are in tune with Ofsted’s current expectations.

This course is suitable for all senior staff and team leaders involved with classroom observation and professional development. Indeed all teaching staff will find it helpful to understand what Ofsted are looking for in an outstanding lesson and what the teacher now needs to demonstrate to achieve this.
The training session will examine: the current emphasis of inspections, how to observe lessons using Ofsted methods, how good internal classroom observation can be used to raise standards and how using a variety of teaching styles and compelling learning experiences can be linked to improving attainment and progress.

Delegates will have the opportunity to observe a range of filmed lessons and discuss and evaluate their content.

Essential information for schools not inspected for last two years and those outstanding schools (graded 2 for teaching) prior to Jan 2012.

Content will include:
Observation priorities.
The Latest 2014/15 Ofsted evaluation schedule.
The current Ofsted criteria.
Learning and teaching.
Teacher Standards.
Judging lessons Matching In-house observations with Ofsted standards.
Making evaluative statements.
Effective use of support Staff.
Implications of behaviour.
Feedback to enable staff development and improvement.
The School Development Plan.
Moving from good to outstanding.
Teaching methods including compelling learning experiences and effective cross curricular schemes.

Book online at cseducationservices.co.uk

Also available as an in-house training day, cost effective for larger groups of staff