Key Skills Professional Development

Session 12 Key skills and inspection

This session will provide an overview of the inspection process in colleges.

Session 12 Session plan 1

Session 12 Session plan 2

Activity 1 What do you know already?

Activity 1 What do you know already? Answers

Activity 2a Finding key skills evidence

Activity 2b How inspection ready are you?

Activity 3 Exploring inspection reports

Handout 1 The commom inspection framework for inspecting education and training

Handout 2 Finding possible sources of evidence

Handout 3 College inspection reports

Handout 4 School inspection reports

Presentation 1 Key skills and inspection in colleges

Presentation 2 Key skills and inspection in schools

The links below are to official documents

Ofsted handook for inspecting colleges (draft)

LSC Quality Improvement and Self Assessment

Ofsted Every Child Matters - Framework for the Inspection of Schools in England from September 2005

Ofsted Conducting the Inspection - Guidance for Inspectors of Schools

Ofsted Using the Evaluation Schedule

Self Evaluation Form for Secondary Schools and Middle Schools