tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28919367.post6947738218963701068..comments2023-11-22T05:51:28.934+00:00Comments on Frank Chalk: OfstedMr Chalkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02300002644366743672noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28919367.post-81765162741569029792012-11-11T14:47:19.497+00:002012-11-11T14:47:19.497+00:00You have missed the possitive points that ofsted b...You have missed the possitive points that ofsted bring to the students. OFSTED make you do all of the above so that every student can achieve on a paper certificate a higher grade than they know or would have achieved through good teaching methods. You are not allowed to let students fail. That is competition that we all know does not happen in life. OFSTED are making sure that all students can go for all jobs with an equal chance, it does not matter they cannot think or do for themselves or even do the job. The employers will find that out when they are losing money due to lack of commitment or common sense .The employees will find out thatare not given the same chances or more information until they get it right.. But their GCSE say they can do it. What can the Ofsted inspectores do if they do not have their tick boxes. Maybe they are the students who got sacked for not being able to think for themselves and are getting their own back on us teachers who made them work at school. Sorry need to get back to writting out Learning obj and Learning Aims. BLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28919367.post-89843234163559671372012-01-23T21:03:09.149+00:002012-01-23T21:03:09.149+00:00Most teachers I know, including myself, that are e...Most teachers I know, including myself, that are effective(i.e. the kids learn, mostly enjoy it, and respect the teacher) pay little or no attention to this OFSTED drivel. We get on with the real job of making an effort to ensure that our charges emerge from education with at least some idea of how to survive, prosper and grow through learning, as well as getting a qualification!<br /><br />When we close the door we teach in the way that we know works best for each group or individual in a natural, sometimes unplanned (Heresy!)way. <br /><br />Any fool can produce a grade 1 lesson out of the hat (in my experience) and no amount of inspection regimes like this will make a difference to teaching standards.<br /><br />So rest assured that there are lots of professionals out there that know how to get results, sometimes in old-fashioned ways.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28919367.post-79904498694611569192010-11-17T23:58:20.363+00:002010-11-17T23:58:20.363+00:00I have taught for 15 years in an inner city school...I have taught for 15 years in an inner city school (now of course an academy). I have finally had enough and refuse to cooperate. Out go the aims and objectives, out go the levels (people really understand percentages). This has resulted in me being hounded by my head of department, who has the brain of a pea and does as she is told. Me? I'm going to become a driver!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28919367.post-84488689906281056272010-11-01T00:42:44.304+00:002010-11-01T00:42:44.304+00:00G*d !!!
Stop fucking whining.
Give it up and get...G*d !!!<br /><br />Stop fucking whining.<br /><br />Give it up and get a new job.<br /><br /><br />(if you can)Petenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28919367.post-32224938833055525732010-10-27T13:56:57.849+00:002010-10-27T13:56:57.849+00:00It's all true in my experience except that i d...It's all true in my experience except that i don't know about the caretaker bit.<br /><br />My gripe is that there is no right of reply. You can't have a discussion with an Ofsted inspector as to why your chosen way is better for this class and this subject. You vill do it like zis or you will be shot, sorry, given an unsatisfactory.Lilyofthefieldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28919367.post-30001717337904208102010-10-27T09:46:47.634+00:002010-10-27T09:46:47.634+00:00Ed, I don't know about the caretaker tip off t...Ed, I don't know about the caretaker tip off thing, but all the other points in that post are familiar to me.<br /><br />An Ofsted inspection is a simple box ticking exercise. Learn the boxes and get a good grade, it's as easy as that.<br /><br />Oh and that phrase "evaluate on the basis of what the children have learnt, rather than what has been taught" is straight from the Ofsted manual!Jamienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28919367.post-64303029233373132362010-10-27T08:23:00.146+00:002010-10-27T08:23:00.146+00:00Ed... my main problem with Ofsted (and the road th...Ed... my main problem with Ofsted (and the road that teaching/learning has gone down) is the focus on breaking down lessons into a series of separate activities - starters/plenaries/group work/self & peer assessment/banging on about levels and criteria to the extent that they're bored half to death/having to show progress ever 20 minutes (?!) et al. All these have their place, but Ofsted seem to expect you do do this tickbox dance within each lesson.<br /><br />This just panders to the concentration-sapping/want it now lifestyle most live outside school. We should be battling against that.<br /><br />My (mixed ability) year 7s have just completed an essay on a short text we studied. The process of ensuring they can access the content, develop the necessary understanding (literary terms, as an example), articulate their ideas, are able to focus on/monitor basic literacy skills and learn what an essay is and how to write it has taken half a term.<br /><br />For the last three lessons they wrote up their essays. In silence. For three hours. Such lessons would be deemed 'unsatisfactory' as Ofsted would not consider those lessons in the context of the whole.<br /><br />Students soon see the point of my 'style' of teaching/high expectations (ie assuming that they actually want to learn something) and the early grumbles of 'Ow... Are we doing writing again?' stop.<br /><br />They're worked really hard, are proud of what they've achieved and have made great progress.<br /><br />That's what matters to me. No doing the 'Ofsted Boogie'.Dacknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28919367.post-16124907388739675832010-10-26T23:19:49.380+00:002010-10-26T23:19:49.380+00:00This is the sort of rubbish I would expect to read...This is the sort of rubbish I would expect to read in the Daily Mail.<br /><br />I am no OfSted fan, but I know a lot if what you say to be rubbish, for starters, anyone who thinks the caretaker gets a tip off before the headteacher is living in a world of their own.<br /><br />OfSted do now evaluate on the basis of what the children have learnt, not just what they have been taught. If you font know the difference then that is s problem.<br /><br />As some who had an OfSted inspection next Tuesday,I am no fan of their tickbox approach, but your arguments are more if a rant than a reasoned argument.Ednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28919367.post-12356752163380564582010-10-26T19:10:04.498+00:002010-10-26T19:10:04.498+00:00@Boy_on_a_Bike - you can't get them to copy of...@Boy_on_a_Bike - you can't get them to copy off the board as 90% of them are now dyslexic. Apparently. Or just can't read. Or simply won't bother.<br /><br />We *have* to give handouts.<br /><br />Oh, and virtually no school has a blackboard (or "chalkboard" as the former is racist). They have whiteboards. Which for some reason isn't racist.Mosherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00374548021605224698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28919367.post-75159284898252427202010-10-25T22:05:17.129+00:002010-10-25T22:05:17.129+00:00The scary thing is that I recently returned to Uni...The scary thing is that I recently returned to University to finish my degree off and I recognise every one of those techniques.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28919367.post-73313202419720211072010-10-25T18:32:02.361+00:002010-10-25T18:32:02.361+00:00Anon 18.38 we had a whole training session on the ...Anon 18.38 we had a whole training session on the importance of getting pupils to grade the national curriculum level of questions.<br /><br />There was never any mention of them sitting quietly and doing the questions though...<br /><br />Do you see this in the private sector? I honestly don't know.Hillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28919367.post-77459948044745612752010-10-25T17:19:13.862+00:002010-10-25T17:19:13.862+00:00No wonder my nephew decided that he would send his...No wonder my nephew decided that he would send his daughter to a private school. According to my sister (a retired teacher) she's made more progress in the last six months than she had made in the previous two years!English Pensionerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15271488641341955140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28919367.post-2019606669662941972010-10-25T06:36:01.139+00:002010-10-25T06:36:01.139+00:00In HE we had QAA. They were tough bastards to sta...In HE we had QAA. They were tough bastards to start with, though not a patch on the older CNAA or the amazing processes of the older universities I came from. QAA soon lapsed into bureaucratic tedium, and collecting survey information from students (in one of my experiments I had mine filled in in the pub, and following Derrida, on the bus) - no one noticed until I gave the stuff out to my actual students who regarded this action as a betrayal. <br />Brilliant writing Frank, but how do we sweep it all away?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28919367.post-42151869676874997912010-10-24T18:38:15.928+00:002010-10-24T18:38:15.928+00:00"5) Grading questions is important. This is w..."5) Grading questions is important. This is where the pupils waste a lesson deciding what level various exam questions are (rather than actually doing them). "<br />Are you winding us up?<br />Please tell me that is not true.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28919367.post-15987475390992414172010-10-24T01:48:23.764+00:002010-10-24T01:48:23.764+00:00PS - I read this, and thought "you legend&quo...PS - I read this, and thought "you legend"<br /><br /><i>AN elite Sydney private school has disciplined a teacher for taping closed the mouths of two talkative boys.</i><br /><br />http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/students-mouths-taped-shut-20101022-16xwq.htmlBoy on a bikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14452119541546978454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28919367.post-67366101600032195362010-10-24T01:40:06.175+00:002010-10-24T01:40:06.175+00:00What's this nonsense about "giving out go...What's this nonsense about "giving out good notes"? Whatever happened to writing the information on the blackboard, and having the little bleeders write it down? <br /><br />Our kids are showered with paper every day. They barely bother to glance at it, so they take nothing in. Having to sit there quietly and read what's on the board, then write it down, is the first step at taking anything in.Boy on a bikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14452119541546978454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28919367.post-20940079492287133162010-10-23T14:56:03.963+00:002010-10-23T14:56:03.963+00:00Slightly OT as it isn't OFSTED related, howeve...Slightly OT as it isn't OFSTED related, however it is related to education. Basically is this typical of science education these days? <br /><br />http://ccgi.newbery1.plus.com/blog/?p=340<br /><br />No wonder we're going to hell in a hand-cart, if so.AKMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28919367.post-33538131281716984422010-10-23T11:26:50.732+00:002010-10-23T11:26:50.732+00:00I'm in Year 10 and HATE peer assessment so muc...I'm in Year 10 and HATE peer assessment so much. We had to do that yesterday for speaking and listening. You can't give people great marks (because they were talking about unrelated junk) but you can't give them bad marks (because you have to see them almost every day). Also the mark schemes are written in a way them makes them impossible to understand.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28919367.post-31153880300703114572010-10-23T08:42:49.594+00:002010-10-23T08:42:49.594+00:00All that blathering on we're meant to do about...All that blathering on we're meant to do about levels and skills would kill any enjoyment of learning. As does shallow breadth rather than narrower depth.<br /><br />I too missed the state school ban thing. What happened?Dacknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28919367.post-48475683312043025422010-10-23T08:17:51.654+00:002010-10-23T08:17:51.654+00:00Sir, sir - 2 questions:
1. Have you ever met Kath...Sir, sir - 2 questions:<br /><br />1. Have you ever met Katharine Birbalsingh & compared notes?<br /><br />2. My attention might have wandered earlier, but why are you no longer allowed to teach in the state education system?<br /><br />Ray.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28919367.post-56792697215768508402010-10-23T08:10:42.745+00:002010-10-23T08:10:42.745+00:00You have missed the importance of safeguarding to ...You have missed the importance of safeguarding to OFSTED. Everyone has to feel safe and cosy. Except the staff obviously. Doesn't matter where they get in the neck from little Johnny or their boss...jaljenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04247152786071106210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28919367.post-58672352794743670682010-10-22T23:03:12.588+00:002010-10-22T23:03:12.588+00:00Dear God. I'm so glad I never finished my deg...Dear God. I'm so glad I never finished my degree in education.<br /><br />And, that I don't have children who might be wasting their lives and any intelligence that they may have.oldgirlatunihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17538521335250860191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28919367.post-18940207232028762022010-10-22T19:27:09.481+00:002010-10-22T19:27:09.481+00:00Now then Mr Chalk. Should that not be 'practis...Now then Mr Chalk. Should that not be 'practise' in that context? Feel free to write it out a dozen times - the practice will do you good. :-DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com