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 Dear colleague
I am writing to inform you about some positive movement in the talks with the Government on teachers’ excessive workload.
The pressure of the NUT campaign has resulted in the publication by Ofsted of an important statement. It clarifies what Ofsted DOES NOT
expect schools to do or provide during, or before, inspection. This
should provide teachers with the ammunition they need to reduce
expectations on them in preparation for, or during, an Ofsted
inspection.
It states, for example, that Ofsted DOES NOT:
- require teachers or schools to provide individual lesson plans for inspectors, or previous lesson plans
- expect schools to use the Ofsted evaluation schedule to grade teaching, or individual lessons
- require schools to undertake a specified amount of lesson observation
- expect to see a particular frequency or quantity of work in pupils’ books or folders
- expect to see unnecessary or extensive written dialogue between teachers and pupils in exercise books and folders
- expect performance and pupil-tracking data to be presented in a particular format.
The full document can be found at: http://www.teachers.org.uk/education-and-equalities/ofsted
We will be writing to your school rep with advice about how to use
this statement to secure workload reductions. It can help to eliminate
activities that do not support teaching and learning and which are
damaging teachers’ health and well-being.
However, we know that teacher workload has a variety of causes and
this statement only opens the door to a possible reduction in workload.
But it is a sign that our pressure is working.
We need to keep up the campaign to force the Government (and Ofsted)
to end the relentless test, league-table and inspection driven pressure
and to negotiate properly about pay and pensions.
Our campaign is working. Please vote ‘Yes, Yes’ to maximise the pressure in the talks.
Yours sincerely
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