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KS3 History Q&A with Aaron Wilkes

February 26, 2020March 6, 2020Oxford History Team

The @OxfordEdHistory twitter recently hosted a live twitter Q&A takeover with history teacher and author Aaron Wilkes, answering teachers’ questions and discussing current concerns about teaching KS3 History! Don’t worry if you missed it – you can read all of the KS3 discussions here. Q. I seem to be reading from OFSTED that they are keen […]

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Capital: cultural, social, economic, and scientific

October 7, 2019March 16, 2020Oxford Science Team

It’s a bright, crisp September morning and I’m sitting in a hall, surrounded by shell-shocked teachers as we all adjust to the Autumn term and the return of our early morning get-up time. As I listen to the announcements and take part in the discussions, I realise the same words keep popping up: Ofsted, cultural […]

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Connections and Refocus: The new Ofsted Framework

September 3, 2019March 27, 2020Oxford English Team
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Rebecca Geoghegan responds to the launch of the Education Inspection Framework and considers I think the word that most resonates with me is ‘connect’.  The new EIF outlines that inspections will focus on looking at the connections between all elements of education –  the curriculum, the lessons, the books, the student’ outcomes – and consider […]

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A deep dive into the unknown or light at the end of the tunnel? Thoughts on the new Ofsted framework

June 3, 2019May 30, 2019Oxford Science Team
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By Emma Bishop, Subject Leader for Science in a Devon Academy During my 23 years as a teacher, I have endured my fair share of jumping through Ofsted-generated hoops. Fads have come and gone and the days of high stakes lesson observations where we were falling over ourselves to show rapid progress are still fresh […]

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