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Ofsted take the view that the quality of monitoring and evaluation carried out by schools has
improved over time. A wide variety of leaders in schools have a more in-depth understanding of
strengths and weaknesses. There is still, however, an issue about the quality of the focus for the
monitoring, i.e. is it specific enough to provide all leaders with the information they require to bring
about rapid improvement ?

Tools for monitoring teaching and learning

                           Positive  Negative  % of time/term

 Lesson                                                        Leadership team
 observations                                                  prompt:

 Work                                                          With the aid of the
 scrutiny                                                      table opposite reflect
                                                               on how well you
 Pupil                                                         currently use the tools
 Discussions                                                   for monitoring
                                                               teaching and learning
 Planning                                                      to inform your future
 scrutiny                                                      actions.

 Data                                                                                           11
 analysis

 Staff
 discussions

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