AoC West Midlands Governance Workshop Ian Smith SHMI 30 April - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

AoC West Midlands Governance Workshop

Ian Smith SHMI 30 April 2016. Walsall College

Today’s topic

• The role of governance in college provision with regards to

the scrutiny of teaching, learning and assessment

• Ofsted’s inspection of the effectiveness of governance in

relation to TLA

• Exploring how effective governance impacts on other key

judgements of the Common Inspection Framework

• …..what actions you might need to take

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Action Plan

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Key learning points from today

Actions to take to improve effective governance - processes to be introduced/adapted

Milestones How will success be measured?

Actions for improving effective governance

CIF 2015

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The judgements

Inspectors make four ‘key judgements’:

• Effectiveness of leadership and management
• Quality of teaching, learning and assessment
• Personal development, behaviour and welfare
• Outcomes for learners.

Inspectors state clearly whether safeguarding is effective as well as the effectiveness of governance

In addition, inspectors make an overarching judgement

• n overall effectiveness

Effectiveness of leadership and management

Increased emphasis on:

• impact of leaders’ work in developing and sustaining an ambitious

culture and vision

• tackling mediocrity
• robust performance management
• safeguarding arrangements protect learners meet statutory

requirements, promote their welfare and

• All staff help prevent radicalisation and extremism
• In addition, we will maintain our focus on the curriculum and

the effectiveness of governance CIF

But first…. True or false?

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True or false?

• Ofsted will measure the impact of the actions taken by the

governors on improving learners’ behaviour.

• During inspection, governors should be able to present

evidence about key improvements in the provision.

• Ofsted considers that outstanding provision should include

employers in their governing body.

• Governors should challenge leaders about the effective

deployment of teaching staff.

• Governors secure good quality of TLA through robust

performance management.

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In summary, governors….

• Have an important role to play in supporting and challenging

leaders to establish an ambitious culture of high achievement and a high quality of provision

• Secure and sustain improvements to TLA (through

professional development, capacity building and performance management)

• Support the strategic direction set by leaders on the

provision of English and mathematics

• Provide challenge and hold managers to account for

improving the quality of learning and the effectiveness of performance management systems

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Extract of Ofsted’s submission to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Education Governance and Leadership - July 2012

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Ofsted’s submission

‘The role of governance in driving up the quality of teaching and leadership …will be fundamental. Ofsted will support leaders and governors focusing

• n improving teaching and learning.’

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Activity 1 Information seeking In groups, What sources of information can you think of, that would inform your understanding of the quality of TLA? How? What is the link? Write them down under the appropriate CIF headers.

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The effectiveness of governance and its impact on TLA Inspection findings

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• ‘Governors review the quality of the provision regularly. This
• versight is at a high strategic level and they acknowledge

difficulties in achieving a more detailed evaluation of the quality and outcomes at individual subject or type of learning level’

• ‘Governors challenge managers effectively regarding the

curriculum and its quality. Furthermore, they closely monitor how well managers secure improvement in performance’

• ‘Governance provides minimal challenge and asks insufficient

questions about aspects of weaker performance or progress with plans to improve the quality of provision’

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In the best provision those with governance responsibility are very well informed

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• ‘Governors are not fully aware of some of the key areas that

are underperforming; for example, the quality of teaching, learning and assessment’

• ‘Governors are strongly committed to overseeing the quality of

the provision and ask appropriately challenging questions of managers and leaders. As a consequence, they have recently identified the need for a more detailed report on learners’ progress’

• ‘One of the directors provides governance to the college and

meets regularly with its managers. Although he is strongly committed to improving the quality of the provision, these meetings do not focus sufficiently on teaching, learning and assessment’

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In the best provision those with governance responsibility are very well informed (2)

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Final comments or questions www.ofsted.gov.uk

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