Education Reviews

Education Reviews 2011

Quality of education and training

According to Ofsted, most teaching is at least satisfactory. In the best-planned and taught lessons, students' interest is sustained, their knowledge and skills are extended and their learning confirmed. In a GCE A2 economics lesson on unemployment, students were set a demanding task to apply their learning by using a web site for independent research. A current case study from a recent newspaper article was used effectively in a GCE AS business studies lesson on `finance and insolvency'. This appropriately illustrated theory taken from the examination syllabus.

The text was also used to develop vocabulary skills in preparation for examination questions. However, in a significant number of lessons, teachers fail to use the time appropriately or manage the class effectively. Students are not productively engaged, especially during group discussions, and their learning is not effectively consolidated. Teachers do not ensure that all students get the opportunity to engage in the planned activities so that they can apply and test their knowledge. In one lesson, only two out of four groups were able to make the presentation they had prepared. In another lesson, weaker students whose work was not up to date were inappropriately sent to work without adequate supervision in another part of the college.

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