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Does Ofsted Matter? Observations and Beyond
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Mal CowgillPrincipal of Central College, Nottingham
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NORTH OF ENGLAND EDUCATION CONFERENCE
DOES OFSTED MATTER?
15 JANUARY 2014
WWW.CENTRALNOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
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Agenda
• My Experience over the last 20 years
• View as an FE Principal, a Parent and as an Academy Sponsor
• Relevance to Further Education
• The current dilemma
• Summary
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Personal Experience
• I think there needs to be an inspection regime with teeth
• View formed by six inspections – mainly good experiences
• Frustration - the approach and more recently the framework:o Ofsted doesn’t do Politics…….o No give even when perceived to be wrong – won’t or can’to Tick box QA approach to quality in a people environment TQMo Current FE experience at highest levels – context is everythingo Don’t have the tools or resources to inspect FEo No consistency across FE inspections……..
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Principal, Parent & Sponsor
• Principal: lack of consistency based on less standard offer• National averages??• Don’t publish College SSRs• Lesson Observations – outcomes are a secret
• Parent: Requires Improvement single grade – meaning?• What is Raise online??• Not interested in School performance but George’s• Glad I’m not subject to Ofsted
• Sponsor – best because Schools are easier to understand• Although the pupils are not• Context isn’t judged as there isn’t time or resources• Reinforcing views based on data
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Relevance to FE
• Consistency – national framework, national averages, Nottingham students
• Context is everything – no room in inspection regime – my way or no way
• Culture driven by fear – one way but not the only way
• Confidence in the system – don’t make it easy to undermine
• Challenge - and be damned, what happened to rigorous debate
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The Current Dilemma
• A fit for purpose inspection regime is even more essential now
• So that the system gives me as a:• Parent - Drive out the lazy and the incompetent• Principal – Make the approach relevant and competent to inspect FE• Sponsor – Become part of the solution
• Don’t let a rigid approach spoil the contribution:• Like the Boy who cried wolf – loose their relevance and value• Can everyone really be above national average• Acting like unhelpful consultants• Measure of good too narrow and data obsessed• Limiting Grades
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Summary
• Ofsted has some outstanding features – its platform is one
• Remember why we are here – to educate young people to inspire them and to produce well rounded individuals who contribute to society
• Picking up the pieces – no quick fixes
• Parents or lack of…. Glad I’m not subject to Ofsted inspection
• If Ofsted didn’t exist would you invent it – yes but slightly different
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Matthew CoffeyNational Director for FE and Skills at Ofsted
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Dr Jean KellyDirector of Professional Development
at the Institute for Learning
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Institute for LearningDoes Ofsted Matter? IfL members’ views and guide for practitioners
Jean Kelly 15.01.14
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IfL Ofsted Survey 2013• ‘Inspection can produce extreme anxiety about
teaching ‘performance’ • ‘Inspection can undermine confidence in
teaching and learning choices’• ‘Inspection can produce unreal expectations of
what is being inspected’• ‘Inspection can diminish a sense of
professionalism’…
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A practitioner’s guide: don’ts• ‘Don’t think you have to be perfect – be yourself’
• ‘Don’t give inspection a greater authority than it has – you are equals committed to improvement’
• ‘Don’t let the anxiety of managers get to you – talk to others about your concerns/plans’
• ‘Don’t think – I must play safe at all costs – this will lead to dull sessions and puzzled learners’
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A practitioner’s guide: do’s• ‘Do feel assertive and confident in your practice-
you know your learners better than anyone’ • ‘Do talk with your learners about the impact of
observation on a session’• ‘Do talk to your colleagues and share your
rationale for choices of content and method’• ‘Do practice giving a two-minute summary of
your own evaluation of a session’
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What does matter?
What does matter to IfL members is continual improvement in the quality and the impact of their teaching • on their learners – as a trusted and excellent
dual professional• on their colleagues – sharing what works and
what doesn’t through action research• on their institution – pride in developing an
excellent learning organisation
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Does Ofsted Matter? Observations and Beyond
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Dr Matt O’LearyDirector of Professional Development
at the Institute for Learning
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‘Does Ofsted matter? Observations and Beyond’
Dr Matt O’LearyCRADLE
University of Wolverhampton
Email: [email protected] Twitter: https://twitter.com/drmattoleary
Academia: http://wlv.academia.edu/MattOLeary
CRADLECentre for Research &
Development in Lifelong Education
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Does Ofsted matter?• Continuous monitoring of standards and
accountability in education is ESSENTIAL but what form should it take?
• Have the last 12 years of inspections (Ofsted & ALI) contributed to improvements across the FE sector?
• Have performative models of assessment and improvement reached their threshold? (O’Leary & Brooks 2013)
CRADLECentre for Research &
Development in Lifelong Education
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Does Ofsted matter?• Current Ofsted Inspection Framework:1. Relies on a reductive approach to
measuring standards; 2. Is underpinned by a low-trust, deficit-
based model of assessment; 3. Provokes an ongoing culture of
surveillance, coercion and fear amongst providers, which often leads to game playing etc
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Does Ofsted matter?Key Questions for Ofsted to answer• Why doesn’t Ofsted spend more time working with
the sector to improve provision rather than simply trying to measure it?
• In light of recent research highlighting the flaws of graded observations, why does Ofsted still advocate this practice across the sector?
• What is the role of the sector’s professional standards in the inspection process?
• Does Ofsted have a role in a de-regulated sector?
CRADLECentre for Research &
Development in Lifelong Education
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Does Ofsted matter?Alternative ways forward• Need to rediscover ‘Intelligent accountability’ • Increased self-regulation – need to empower the
teaching profession with greater control over self-evaluation and professional autonomy for continuous improvement
• Need to move towards an evaluation model of ‘fitness to practice’ (i.e. pass/fail) rather than this spurious 4-point scale that is neither valid nor reliable
CRADLECentre for Research &
Development in Lifelong Education
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Does Ofsted Matter? Observations and Beyond