Posted in Accountability, Culture change, HMIe, Learning and teaching, School visits on Dec 5th, 2007 No Comments »
I was in West Barns Primary School yesterday and was speaking to a P6/7 class. One of the boys asked me if I was an inspector and I asked him why he thought that - “Well you’re wearing suit and watching what we are doing”, was his logical reply. Euan had never seen an inspector in [...]
Posted in Differentiation, HMIe, Head Teachers, Inclusion, Learning and teaching, TESS, Unconditional Positive Regard on Sep 8th, 2007 3 Comments »
I’ve been working on a draft for my next TESS article. I’d welcome comments and suggestions for improvement:
One of the best parts of my job is that I get to observe the learning and teaching process in all of our schools. One of the things that I’ve been struck by during my visits is [...]
Posted in CPD, HMIe, Leadership on Jul 31st, 2007 No Comments »
The HMIe have recently published a fascinating report into educational leadership in Scottish education.
It starts out by asserting that 85% of educational leaders in all sectors are good or very good – which obviously leaves a question hanging about the remaining 15%.
I really like Graham Donaldson’s foreword where he says something very important about the [...]
Posted in HMIe, Planning, Self-evaluation on Apr 16th, 2007 No Comments »
One of the tasks we need to complete this week is the Service Improvement Plan update. This is the document which provides guidance to schools about any priorities they should be including in their own School Development Plan.
Our Service Improvement Plan covers a three-year timespan and uses the National Priorities as a scaffold to give our plan some sort [...]
Posted in Culture change, HMIe, Leadership, Learning and teaching, Self-evaluation on Jan 25th, 2007 6 Comments »
During one of our meetings today we explored our aspirations for education in East Lothian.
The challenge was - if there were three things we would like to be excellent at in education in East lothian what would they be?
The answer? learning and teaching; self-evaluation; and leadership. Arguably, if we got these three things operating at [...]
Posted in Blogging, Communication, HMIe, Ideas, Performance Indicators, Using data on Jan 11th, 2007 3 Comments »
We have been trying to use this blogging platform to fulfil our statutory obligation to complete our Standards and Quality Report on education in East Lothian.
The reasons for exploring this format were threefold: improve accessibility to the report; cut down on environmental impact of producing a ‘glossy’ report; enable people to interact with the report.
However, another reason has [...]
Posted in Communication, HMIe, Management, Planning, Public Services, Self-evaluation, Using data on Jan 4th, 2007 No Comments »
As I reported on prior to the holidays I’ve been working on an on-line version of our 2006 Standards and Quality Report.
I have to admit to being quite pleased with the results so far although it will remain a draft version until the end of this month.
Our hope is that this version will be a [...]
Posted in Accountability, HMIe, Performance Indicators, Self-evaluation on Dec 19th, 2006 1 Comment »
I’ve been working on our Departmental Standards and Quality Report. I’m trying to set up a template which can be used by schools - with a view to reducing workload but improving the impact it makes.
One of the other differences is that I’ve used this blogging platform to present the plan on-line. There will be [...]
Posted in Accountability, HMIe, Integrated Children's Services on Jul 7th, 2006 1 Comment »
I’ve pulled apart the most recent new-format
HMIe inspection report of the education functions of Clackmannanshire Council undertaken in May 2006
THE CHILD AT THE CENTRE
The various headings I’ve identified all feature in the actual report.
It would be my hope that something like this would form the basis of our 2006 Standards and Quality Report and the [...]
Posted in HMIe, Parental Involvement on Feb 28th, 2006 No Comments »
I had hoped to finish a number of jobs this morning - most notably the Reporting Absence to Parents Guidelines. I was making good progress when I received a call from a school. I won’t go into the details but I felt it necessitated a home visit to parents. I’ve always believed such visits to [...]
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