FAQs for School Inspection: Practical Advice and Working Solutions

by Elizabeth Holmes

Overview

School inspections still have the potential to spread fear and panic through even the best-run schools, but this practical book will remove all of the anxiety, with its proven advice to help ensure a successful inspection.

Ideal for all teachers, whether newly qualified or with decades of experience, FAQs for School Inspection will guide the reader calmly through the pre- and post-inspection stages, offering valuable insights into what can happen during the inspection itself. Covering recent legislative changes and everything to do with school inspection, it outlines the teacher/inspector relationship and gives advice on coping with the potential stresses of inspections.

Organised into logical sections, the book covers issues such as

• preparing for inspection
• being inspection-aware
• the effects inspection has on you personally
• what happens after inspection.

Complete with advice on using inspection to further personal and professional development, this ready-reference guide will allow teachers to play a confident and influential role in school inspection.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415334990
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/05/2008
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Elizabeth Holmes completed her PGCE at the Institute of Education, London. After teaching in London and Oxfordshire she became Head of History at a school in West Sussex. She now writes on education and health issues for a variety of national publications and websites, and prepares training and development materials. She has had many books published, including The Newly Qualified Teacher's Handbook, FAQs for NQTs, Teacher Well-being and FAQs for TAs.

www.elizabethholmes.info

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Ofsted 2. All about school inspection 3. Being inspection-aware 4. Inspection and your well-being 5. The effects of inspection on the individual 6. Getting ready for inspection7. The experience of inspection 8. The aftermath of inspection 9. Using inspection for development