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Monday 6 August 2012

What makes a lesson outstanding?

We all want to make sure that our lessons are allowing students to make outstanding progress, and sometimes it can be hard to have inspiration about what changes to our teaching could make a difference.


Have a look at the 2012 Ofsted criteria on teaching.  (follow the link below, pages 12-13 have the table, and I have inserted a picture of the relevant parts at the end of the post). This is not designed to be a checklist to judge individual lessons, rather a description of the components that add up over time to outstanding teaching.

Think about just one of the components (assessment, planning of tasks, marking and feedback, etc) and jot down some things you would observe in an outstanding lesson that would be different in a lesson that was not outstanding.

It may make it easier to first pick apart how the criteria is different for 'Outstanding' and for 'Good', and then think about how this would look in a lesson, using the grid below:


Think of a lesson you will teach in the next week (or in the first week back if you are doing this is the holidays!) where you could plan to incorporate one of the ideas you have had here.

What one thing are you going to try to improve your lesson next week? Let us know in the comments, and it would be great to hear when you have tried it out what the impact on your students' learning was too.

(click to see the criteria here...)

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