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How the Flemish Inspectorate stimulates innovative schools
Flemish Inspectorate of Education
Ingrid Ocket & Frans De Bie, inspectors
3 key words
1. autonomy
2. support
3. accountability
Quality assurancein Flemish education
Quality of Education = responsibility of schools
Schools
Autonomy
FlemishGovernment
Rules and regulations
Inspectorate
Accountability(+ support)
PedagogicalCounsellingServices
Support
Role of the inspectorate check the 3 quality conditions • does the school respect the rules and regulations and deliver
quality education and good quality outcomes? • does the school provide quality monitoring, assuring the
quality of the educational processes?• does the school have capacity to establish good policy?
write school reports
advise further recognition
CONTEXT
INPUT
PROCESSES
GENERAL
Leadership Development of vision Decision making Quality assurance
STAFF
HRM organisation evaluation
Professionalisation new teachers professionalisation of
staff
Results Final
objectives Developmental
objectives
OUTPUT
LOGISTICS
Management of logistics infrastructure equipment Financial means Safety and well-being health hygiene environment safety
EDUCATION
Curriculum
Organising/planning the education Contents of the education
Pupil’s guidance
External vs internal guidance Guidance of learning capacities social and emotional guidance sociale en emotionele begeleiding
Evaluation
practice of evaluating pupils reporting
Pupils’ progress School career
of pupils Attendance
Outcomes Results in
following educational stage
Employment
Satisfaction pupils staff other
stakeholders
identification coordinates type of school
Legislative framework General legislation Specific legislation
history Changes in management Changes in structure
Site Buildings / area situated characteristics of surrounding
area
personnel Pupils characteristics
CIPO
Preliminary enquiry
Audit
Data analysis
Examination:interviews
observations
Interpretation
Deliberation:focus for the audit
Quality examination
Inspection report
Data analysis
Examination:interviews
observations
Interpretation
Deliberation:advice
Results ofdata analysis
Results of examination:
interviewsobservations
Results ofinterpretation
Results of deliberation:strenghts and weaknesses
advice
InterpretationIntegral image of estimated strenghts and weaknesses
DeliberationRepresentative selection of estimated strenghts/weaknesses
Audit focus
Selection of audit items
integral enquiry to assess the local situation:
Preliminary enquiry
profound and differentiated case-studies
technique of triangulation
• conversations
• observations
• document analysis
Audit
with the following basic questions as a guideline:
• which initiatives and innovations are being developed?
• how the team has chosen the initiatives and innovations
• which effects does the team want to achieve by these?
• what are the current effects?• how do the team members themselves evaluate
the obtained learning effects, results?
Audit
Additional enquiries Language policy
Science Techniques Engineering Mathematics (STEM)
Social Economical Status (SES)
Wellbeing
report about the 3 quality conditions• respecting the rules and regulations • quality monitoring, assuring the quality of the
educational processes• capacity to establish good policy
the results of our enquiries with special attention for• our confidence in the institution’s autonomy• deliberation, weighing « strengths » and
« weaknesses »• stimulation• signalisation in case of serious structural
weaknesses
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Inspection report
chapter with strenghts and weaknesses• relevant aspects which are good,
examples of good practice • relevant aspects which can be improved,
levers for improvement• relevant aspects which have to be
improved, the subject(s) of further control
Inspection report
concluding conversation about the report
publication on a public website
no ‘ranking’
Final touch
Study PhD Ilse De Volder
Final thoughts?
Questions?