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“Certainly this system needs to be scrapped. I’m a retired secondary school teacher and in the last inspection at my last school I was ‘labelled’ Satisfactory on the slip marking my work at the end of the inspection week.
At that point I was an experienced teacher of over 30 years and deputy head of the Design and Technology Faculty. The Inspector saw me teach twice during the week and she chose a year 9 lesson for both inspections.
I was criticised for showing a skill the pupils needed to see demonstrated for their further development using and creating with fabrics. I constantly questioned the students during this.
I managed an ordered but lively classroom and enabled children to use and develop their skills in readiness for GCSE the following year.
On a previous inspection in the same school I had to defend the grades in an area of the department where we often had low ability students who were being entered in a subject when it was the only one where they were to sit an exam.
This came from a lay inspector who had no knowledge of the school system.
When I began teaching in the late 1960’s each county had a supportive advisory system which guided and developed teaching throughout the county. This came along with HMI who were expert in each subject and would ‘inspect’ using their knowledge. I had a very good relationship with and felt supported by both both advisors and HMI.
In that last inspection in 1999 I felt upset that a woman, with much less experience than me, could judge my work as ‘Satisfactory’. I was able to retire early the following year.
Beryl Austoni MA”
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