Outstanding Teaching raises the standards of teaching from satisfactory to good, good to outstanding in accordance with Ofsted criteria.

Key outcomes:

• Raise standards of learning
• Increase teacher confidence
• Improve pupil enjoyment and engagement in lessons
• Provide better lessons
• Masters accredited programme

Become an Outstanding Trainer

• Warwick Mansell’s Blog

  • Yes, we need high expectations of pupils, teachers and schools. But where's the strategic vision, beyond more pressure?
    Who could possibly argue with Sir Michael Wilshaw? The new chief inspector has been there and done it: led comprehensives in challenging inner-city areas and been garlanded for the results. And for many, his message seems impossible to dispute. We need higher standards in our schools, and we shouldn't settle for anything less than excellence, especially […]
  • The very undemocratic process of forcing academy status on primary schoolsand observations about recent Ofsted reports
    If I were a parent there, I would be absolutely aghast at what appears to be happening to a group of primary schools in Haringey, north London. Parents I have spoken to this week, whose children attend a Haringey primary which in November was placed in special measures by inspectors and which now seems to be being compelled into academy status, are enraged W […]
  • £75 million going from UK schools into pockets of exam board shareholders
    I was expecting to write a blog today about further evidence on the effects of exam-driven teaching on children's educational experiences, as revealed in written submissions to a current Parliamentary inquiry into secondary assessment. I find myself, however, drawn to focus again on the intricacies of how exam boards operate the system itself, because o […]
  • Radical change on the cards for England's exam system
    Radical change seems to be on the cards for England's GCSE and A-level exam system in the wake of last month's revelations in the Daily Telegraph of examiners seeming to give too much help to teachers, attending advice seminars, about the content of forthcoming exams. Undercover journalists also filmed a GCSE geography chief examiner for the Edexce […]