Page 11 - Making Book Scrutiny More Meaningful

How can we gain greater impact
with Book Scrutiny?

One of the ways in which schools and academies have had greatest impact
with book scrutiny is to set up a situation where teachers are used to having
their books looked at.

There are several ways of achieving this in a non-threatening way. An
example of this is outlined below:

• Fortnightly impact meetings with a colleague focusing on book scrutiny.
One colleague brings a pre-agreed set of books to the first meeting and
then they alternate at their next meeting. Pairs should not be ‘experienced’
and ‘less experienced’ teachers but teachers should have a certain
amount of freedom to choose their own partners.

• This should then be followed up with ‘half termly’ pupil progress meetings
with phase leaders.

• Leading to termly summative pupil progress meeting with the headteacher/
principal.

In this way teachers get used to their books being a major focus when looking
at the impact their teaching is having.

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