Raising standards, improving lives

UCET annual conference

Developing Inspection

Christine Gilbert, HMCI

9 November 2009

Developing inspection: the new Ofsted

Ofsted’s reach

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Raising standards, improving lives Ofsted’s job

We inspect and regulate to achieve excellence in the care of children and young people, and in education and skills and learners of all ages.

Delivering an inspection regime that has

greater impact

greater user focus

greater efficiency

Ofsted’s job

Living in a fast moving technological age

Living in a multi-cultural society

Moving teaching to outstanding

Training a world class teaching force: key issues

Training a world class teaching force

Good teaching matters

Strong partnerships matter

Continuing professional development matters

High expectations and high standards matter

Outstanding schools in challenging circumstances

Achieving excellence

Sustaining excellence

Sharing excellence

Having the highest expectations

Seeing students as individuals

Focusing on the quality of teaching and learning

Assessing progress

Making the curriculum relevant

Leading and building capacity

Establishing disciplined learning and consistent staff behaviour

Achieving excellence

Continuity

Strong team culture

Developing teaching and learning

Developing leaders

Enriching the curriculum

Improving literacy

Building relationships

No student left behind

Internal consistency

Sustaining excellence

Working with another school facing difficulties

Sharing practice across schools

Acting as community leader

Working as an expert leader

Building a system of leadership

Sharing excellence

Achievement 2005-09

Primary

Secondary

Teaching and learning 2005-09

Primary

Secondary

Personal Development 2005-09

Primary

Secondary

ITE inspections 2008/09

14 inspections of primary provision

14 inspections of secondary provision

58 inspections of stand alone EBITTs

FE inspections included 10 HEI-led providers

3 multi-phase inspections

All 14 primary providers were judged to be good or better for overall effectiveness and capacity to improve

12 out of 14 secondary providers were graded good or better for overall effectiveness and capacity to improve

FE provision was judged good or better in 9 out of 10 FE providers

Recruitment and retention

Strengths

Areas for development

Capacity to improve of a third of the EBITTs inspected

Overall effectiveness of 16% of the EBITTs inspected and 4 out of the 10 FE providers inspected

Providers’ ability to assess performance and plan and take action for improvement

Good training venues

Linking outcomes of evaluation with improvement planning and trainees’ outcomes

The grade criteria for good

Evaluation of first year of ITE cycle

Grading attainment

‘…there should be no inspection without a reason…’

Hampton Report, 2005

Raising standards, improving lives