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‘Ofsted needs to understand that teachers see it as an existential threat’
It’s good that Ofsted now recognises that it exacerbates teacher workload, but it has a bigger priority – reducing the fear around inspections, writes one former inspector and teacher
7 September 2017
‘Baseline tests for four-year-olds are harmful’
Early literacy and numeracy are important but not all-important, and not as important as emotional security which is the foundation of all school learning, writes one former inspector and primary school teacher
30 March 2017
‘The reliability genie is out of the bottle at Ofsted - and it will only lead to more pressure on watchdog’
It is positive that Ofsted has carried out some research into the reliability of its judgements – but now it needs to go further, writes one former inspector and primary school teacher
13 March 2017
Dear Amanda Spielman...
Some friendly words of advice for the incoming head of Ofsted from former inspector and primary school teacher Colin Richards
18 November 2016
‘Hothousing is replacing education that is respectful of children: just ask Charles Dickens’
One former primary teacher offers a cautionary tale for schools minister Nick Gibb from the novel Dombey and Son
27 July 2016
‘In 1905 the government said that teachers shouldn’t be told how to teach. Why have we since gone backwards?’
Somehow, writes one educationist, we have contrived to forget many lessons about teaching that we had already learned at the turn of the last century
25 April 2016
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