17 th June 2015 University of Wolverhampton Dr Matt OLeary Twitter drmattoleary httpswlvacademiaeduMattOLeary CRADLE Centre for Research amp Development in Lifelong Education ID: 412969
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Lesson observation: new approaches, new possibilities17th June 2015University of WolverhamptonDr Matt O’LearyTwitter: @drmattolearyhttps://wlv.academia.edu/MattOLeary
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Teaching as an evidence-based profession‘Evidence is the engine for change. We can use it to create space for re-thinking and to focus our attention on overlooked possibilities for moving practice forward’(Ainscow 2015: 22)CRADLECentre for Research & Development in Lifelong EducationSlide3
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A new dawn, a new beginning?The end of graded observations in inspectionsCRADLECentre for Research & Development in Lifelong EducationSlide5
The complexity of classrooms‘…classroom teaching is perhaps the most complex, most challenging, and most demanding, subtle, nuanced, and frightening activity that our species has ever invented.’ (Shulman 2004: 258).CRADLECentre for Research & Development in Lifelong EducationSlide6Slide7
Trivialising the complexity of teaching and learning‘Surveillance is permanent in its effects, even if it is discontinuous in its action’ (Foucault 1977: 201)CRADLECentre for Research & Development in Lifelong EducationSlide8Slide9
The assessment straitjacketThe need to break free from the assessment straitjacket that conceptually constrains our understanding and our engagement with observation as a mechanismCRADLECentre for Research & Development in Lifelong EducationSlide10
Balancing the scales of performancemanagement & teacher growthSupportSortCRADLECentre for Research & Development in Lifelong EducationSlide11
‘The education system still has further potential to improve itself, provided policy makers allow the space for practitioners to make use of the expertise and creativity that lies trapped within individual classrooms.’ (Ainscow 2015: 169)CRADLECentre for Research & Development in Lifelong Education