Effective School Self-Evaluation
One of a series of podcast disucssions on school improvement
In this podcast, Dave Jobbings interviews Tony Thornley to gain insights into effective school-self-evaluation - based on Tony's first-hand experience as a school improvement partner (SIP) and inspector of schools.
After a most successful career as the head teacher of Guiseley School, on the outskirts of Leeds (UK), Tony worked at a senior level as an HMI within Ofsted and then at strategic levels within local authorities. Tony is now the managing directory of his own company (Tony Thonley Education Limited) and involved in an extensive range of school improvement activities with primary and secondary schools, local authoriies and national organisations.
In this podcast, Tony talks about the essential features in school self-evaluation, sharing a range of illustrative examples to highlight best practice and discusses the key areas many school leadership teams find the most challenging in reality.
Tony's professional experience and expertise is evident from his thoughtful and analytical approach to school self-evaluation. In discussion, Tony skillfully differentiates between the processes of monitoring and evaluation and provides guidance on the features of best practice within schools and the completion of the self-evaluation form (SEF) used to collate and record evidence for Ofsted inspection.
*** UPDATE ***
Tony has recently updated his booklet entitled "Practical Whole School Self-Evaluation". You can preview extracts with colleagues.
You can listen to this podcast online with your browser using the Quicktime plugin or via our iTunes listing.
Further details are provided on this website about the secondary programme for School Improvement Partners, including information about the prorgamme for primary schools and key links to information published on other websites.
Other sections of our School Improvement Series ...
- The index for the school improvement series
- School improvement at Newhall Park Primary
- School improvement in the Halifax Excellence Cluster
- School improvement at Salt Grammar School
- School improvement: the role of Aspect
- An interview with a School Improvement Partner
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