Guest morganl7 Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 Any other teachers on here? I've been planning this bloody lesson now since 3:30pm and only just finished! It's just absolutely ridiculous! We've had the inspectors in school since Monday and I was kinda hoping that they'd give me a miss... but obviously I didn't get away with that one! I suppose I'm lucky in knowing WHEN they're coming into my lesson - in my last school they just turned up [sHOCK][/sHOCK] I feel sorry for the departments that are fully inspected this week... I'm only gonna have the one observation thankfully. Roll on Friday, and half term break! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 So they just come and watch what you are doing? For the whole day? What do you teach? And it's half term next week? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest morganl7 Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 Thankfully they're only in for the one hour as I work in a secondary school. I guess if you teach primary it would be worse as they could be in there for longer! I'm Head of Physics. Teaching a Y7 class tomorrow when observed so they should be sweet, innocent and engaged (in principle!). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 My Physics teacher just used to copy the contents of a book onto a blackboard at great speed and then get us to copy it into our own books, he was a bit a knob - a shame really, I quite liked the subject but he made most of us lose interest. Hope it goes OK anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Headroom Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 It cant be as bad as Ofsted coming to inspect you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 It cant be as bad as Ofsted coming to inspect you. Or the UN or Inspector Gadget. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest morganl7 Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 It cant be as bad as Ofsted coming to inspect you. ESTYN are the welsh equivalent to Ofsted [GRIN][/GRIN] Worked in an english school previously and went through an inspection. They only gave us 2 weeks notice whereas ESTYN gave us MONTHS of notice! Absolutley ridiculous! We've had SO much time to prepare (and worry!) as a school - let's put it this way, if it ain't good now, it never will be! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest morganl7 Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 Or the UN or Inspector Gadget. I'm just gonna imagine Mr Inspector as Inspector Gadget to get me through the hour! Cheers! [GRIN][/GRIN] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ufop Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 good luck :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pot Posted October 21, 2008 Share Posted October 21, 2008 Give Babe a shout, she's a teacher EDIT : Think she could be primary school, or Junior School (Going from my understanding of it, I don't understand this Year XX stuff... lol) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Doom Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 It cant be as bad as Ofsted coming to inspect you. Yep. We had Ofsted in last year & it was a nightmare! We managed to get through it ok but it was horrible having random people turn up in your lessons! ESTYN Inspection tomorrow :-( Good luck for tomorrow! Make sure you get those lesson objectives up on the board & keep referring to them as much as you can. I take it you're doing a starter & plenary? Also make sure you know which all of the SEN kids are in the class & have different strategies etc. Ask them plenty of questions to keep them engaged, get round the room as much as you can.. Keep smiling & you won't go far wrong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest morganl7 Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 Yep. We had Ofsted in last year & it was a nightmare! We managed to get through it ok but it was horrible having random people turn up in your lessons! Good luck for tomorrow! Make sure you get those lesson objectives up on the board & keep referring to them as much as you can. I take it you're doing a starter & plenary? Also make sure you know which all of the SEN kids are in the class & have different strategies etc. Ask them plenty of questions to keep them engaged, get round the room as much as you can.. Keep smiling & you won't go far wrong SURVIVED! Had some very good feedback. Typo on a worksheet (DOH!) which was his only criticism... Can't be all that bad. Thanks for the advice. Lesson plan was so detailed, 3 pages long, made sure I covered all areas with IEP's, SEN, able and talented, AFL etc. Would have taken him the hour to read that anyway! He also didn't take my comment of "I don't want to see you again" seriously and laughed it off - they are human after all Kids were fantastic (bless them)... Lots of chocolate for that class on Friday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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