Transcript supports honest, insightful self-evaluation
SELF-EVALUATION AFTER THE SEF
What do governors really need to know about school development and progress?
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THE SEF IS DEAD…
September 2010 Education Secretary Gove announces the death of the SEF, with effect from 22 nd July 2011:
“The SEF asks teachers and heads to collect and verify facts and figures about their school in preparation for their Ofsted inspection…the process takes days out of heads’ time and can cost schools tens of thousands of pounds. The Secretary of State has asked Ofsted to ditch it .”
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…LONG LIVE THE SEF
“Of course, inspectors will continue to take account of schools’ self-evaluation…Completion of the SEF has never been an Ofsted requirement.
Of course, it will be critical that schools continue to evaluate their performance.
We expect that schools should always be able to provide some summative evidence of self-evaluation, which might include an assessment of performance against the key inspection judgements, but there will not be a common way for schools to present this evidence.”
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OFSTED FRAMEWORK 2012
What is the relationship between school self -evaluation and inspection? Self-evaluation is now well established in schools, providing the basis for planning for development and improvement .
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OUTSTANDING GOVERNANCE
Outstanding governance supports honest, insightful self evaluation by the school, recognising problems and supporting the steps needed to address them.
Effective governing bodies systematically monitor their school’s progress towards meeting agreed development targets. Information about what is going well and why, and what is not going well and why, is shared. Governors are well informed and knowledgeable because they are given high- quality, accurate information that is concise and focused on pupil achievement .
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INSPECTION FOCUSES ON..
Overall ef fectiveness Inspector s evaluate the quality of the education provided in the school. In doing this, they consider the evidence gathered to suppor t their evaluations of the four key judgements: They also consider: the extent to which the education provided meets the needs of the range of pupils at the school how well the school promotes all pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development 27/04/2020 www.thegovernor.org.uk
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OFSTED: SEPTEMBER 2012
“We need clear and demanding criteria for a school to be judged ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’. A good school should have at least good teaching, and an outstanding school should have outstanding teaching. Good and outstanding leadership of teaching and learning drives improvement and knows that the culture of the school and the progress of pupils depend on it .” Sir Michael Wilshaw HMCI 9 Feb 2012 27/04/2020 www.thegovernor.org.uk
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SEPTEMBER 2012
schools cannot be judged ‘outstanding’ unless their teaching is ‘outstanding’ schools will only be deemed to be providing an acceptable standard of education where they are judged to be ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ a single judgement of ‘requires improvement’ will replace the current ‘satisfactor y’ judgement and ‘notice to improve’ categor y schools judged as ‘requires improvement’ will be subject to a full re inspection earlier than is currently the case a school can only be judged as ‘requires improvement’ on two consecutive inspections before it is deemed to require ‘special measures’ inspections will be undertaken without notice being provided to the school inspectors should undertake an analysis of an anonymised summar y, provided by the school, of the outcomes of the most recent per formance management of all teachers within the school, as par t of the evidence for a judgement on Leadership and Management.
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IS THERE MORE TO LIFE THAN OFSTED?
Ofsted's focus has narrowed. Should ours narrow?
What else might we look at?
As well as current Ofsted foci the old SEF included: Every Child Matters themes School’s engagement with parents and carers Effectiveness of partnerships The effectiveness with which the school deploys resources to achieve value for money What else would you include?
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CORE ELEMENTS OF SELF EVALUATION
achievement of pupils at the school Every Child Matters themes?
School’s engagement with parents and carers?
Effectiveness of partnerships?
Value for money?
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WHAT DO YOU MEAN – TOO OPERATIONAL?
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WHERE DOES YOUR GOVERNING BODY SIT?
Supporters Club
‘We’re here to support the head’.
High support Partners or critical friends
‘We share everything –good or bad’.
Low challenge Abdicators
‘We leave it to the professionals’.
High challenge Adversaries Low support
‘We keep a very close eye on the staff!’.
HOW DO YOU KNOW HOW WELL YOUR SCHOOL IS DOING?
Doing…in what areas?
How well should it be doing?
How do we know?
What should we be looking for?
Where might we find it?
What questions should we ask?
Who can we ask?
How do we know if the answers are reliable and honest?
What do we do if we find they’re not?
GATHERING EVIDENCE
Inspectors Data analysis Validation of self-evaluation Triangulation Asking questions teachers, parents, youngsters, governors, head… Observation Comparison Work sampling Discussion between inspectors Governors Which techniques are appropriate for us?
SOURCES OF INFORMATION
Self-evaluation Raw data and league tables Value Added (VA) data – RAISEonline Pupil tracking data (anonymised) Ofsted report Headteacher’s report Subject leader report Link governor report School Improvement or Development Plan (and related progress reports) School Awards GB and committee minutes Feedback from stakeholders
CALLS FOR AN EXTERNAL PERSPECTIVE
It seems preposterous that we have no organised supply of expert advisors to support improvement.
"It is no good just relying on Ofsted to give the judgment. By that time, it is too late.
We need some Recommendation: a new nationwide support system to facilitate advice, support and collegiate school-to school learning. sort of intermediary bodies which can detect when things aren't going well, look at the data and have their ear very close to the ground to determine when there is a certain issue .“ Support needs to be provided to ‘satisfactory’ schools, as well as those with NtI.
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THE EXTERNAL, EXPERT PERSPECTIVE
Who we’ve lost: School Improvement Partner Local authority adviser/inspector We still have: Ofsted inspection Who else is there?
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REFLECTION
What’s happened to self-evaluation in my school?
How do we keep track of how the school is doing?
What performance indicators tell us best what we need to know?
How do we know if our head and colleagues are giving us the unvarnished truth?
What external perspectives do (and could) we access?
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THE GOVERNORS WERE IN COMPLETE AGREEMENT – EVERY THING WAS BLOOMIN’ MARVELLOUS! THEY MUST BE DOING A GREAT JOB!
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WHAT ABOUT US?
“The (outstanding) governing bodies constantly reflect on their own effectiveness and readily make changes to improve. They consider their own training needs, as well as how they organise their work.” How well are we doing – as a governing body?
What IMPACT do we have?
When did we last evaluate ourselves as a GB?
What process did we use?
What did we do about what we found out?
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SPOT THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR SELF-EVALUATION
Full governing body Matters arising Headteacher’s report School development plan School self-evaluation Committee reports Subject leaders’ reports Committees Curriculum, assessment, teaching and learning Finance Staffing Premises
POSSIBLE APPROACHES
Poole Governor Services self-evaluation tool Other self-evaluation tools on the web Descriptors of governance – previous Ofsted framework Ofsted’s characteristics of outstanding GBs Governor Mark – including supporting and validating partner GB’s self-evaluation 27/04/2020 www.thegovernor.org.uk
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GB DEVELOPMENT PLAN
Goal
Retain effective governors
Actions
1. Introduce an induction policy for new governors 2. Make meetings more effective and efficient
Outcomes
New governors report that induction was helpful A Meetings do not overrun B Governors report improved satisfaction
Who? Deadline Evaluator
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