Preparing for inspection

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Preparing for inspection

• Workers Educational Association
• Richard Moore
• 17 January 2008

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The Common Inspection Framework

• How well do learners achieve?
• How effective are teaching, training and
  learning?
• How well do programmes and activities meet the
  needs and interests of learners?
• How well are learners guided and supported?
• How effective are leadership and management in
  raising achievement and supporting all learners?

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Inspection Philosophy

• Moves towards greater self-regulation
• Greater emphasis on validation of self-assessment
  judgements
• Light touch/right touch approach
• Selection of representative curriculum areas to
  inspect and grade but judgements from other
  SSAs can still play a part
• Fewer lesson observations
• Greater focus on effectiveness of providers own
  quality improvement mechanisms for teaching and
  learning
• Subcontracting

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Main changes

• Grading criteria
• Lesson observation grade profiles
• Achievement and standards
• Quality of provision
• Leadership and management
• Overall effectiveness
• Capacity to improve
• Key strengths and areas for improvement
• First and second tier SSAS
• Word limits for reports

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The inspection team

• Lead inspector
• Assistant lead inspector
• Full-time HMI
• Additional inspectors
• Nominee
• Assistant Divisional Manager to quality assure
  inspection
• Administrative support (TBC)

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Between now and March

• Ensure that everyone knows when and how the
  inspection will take place
• Sub-nominees for each region
• Introductions to SSAs that are being inspected
• Class lists for SSAs by region that we are
  inspecting
• Clusters of centres/classes that inspectors can
  visit

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Between now and March

• Familiarisation with new inspection report style
• Interviews and paperwork to support SAR
  judgements in SSAs
• Evidence location
• Directions to centres
• Joint observations of teaching and learning
• Update to SAR