QA: Evaluation into Action
Our Quality Assurance, Evaluation into Action, ensures that we triangulate all the sources of evidence to come to secure conclusions about what is happening in our classrooms - evaluation. From here, we determine how to feedback, develop and share teaching practice - action.
Our evaluation includes:
- SLT walkthroughs looking at the implementation and impact of school policy.
- Coaching walkthroughs utilising Instructional Coaching.
- Formal observations, e.g. for our early career teachers.
- Work Scrutiny with staff to diagnose how teaching and learning can continue to develop.
- And joint walkthroughs between senior and middle leaders, and staff and student voice, to look at the holistic quality of education.
We then ensure that we 'close the loop' - putting the right feedback and development in place and subsequently returning to ensure that this action has had impact. Examples include:
- Whole-school, Faculty or Individual CPD based on areas of policy that need further development.
- Collaborative Planning Time session.
- Working with a colleague to formulate a granular action step for Instructional Coaching, zooming in on feedback from evaluation activity.
- Observing a colleague who has successfully embedded a particular practice in order to see this pedagogy in action.
As Dylan Wiliam says, “Every teacher needs to improve, not because they are not good enough, but because they can be even better.”
