Dear Christine,
You sound so frustrated over the whole situation.
By the sounds of it, you do have a session plan - it just isn't what Ofsted
expect to see.
You provide your students with a basic framework to develop the skills they
need, as well as the opportunity to make something of their
Many thanks to everyone who emailed me regarding Ofsted inspection of lace
classes. It was good to get so much advice from those who had already been
through it! I'm sorry that I haven't had time to reply to you all
individually (too much paperwork to do!).
I was inspected this week. The
I asked her to explain, as I just could not understand what she
was saying.
She got very red and agitated and said she was not allowed to
give advice, I
must speak to my line manager. I repeated that I was not asking
for advice,
but did not understand, she just said that her time was up and
On 2 Feb 2005, at 23:14, Elizabeth Pass wrote:
Yes, we had an Ofsted inspection last year, and they didn't like what
they
saw, although that was on the admin side of things. As a result of the
inspection, either before or after, lots of tutors in all sorts of
areas,
did not renew their
Hi there,
I dropped out of teaching for the local authority classes about 10 years ago
when they wanted all classes to be independently financially viable. For the
daytime class, which had a lot of concession fee payers, this would have
meant enrolling 24+ students. With the individual tuition
I would be very interested to know if other tutors have been put through
this ordeal.
I did the Stage 1 CG 7407 a couple of years ago - having been teaching
for 8 years, based on Guiding experience, it was interesting to have
confirmed that what I had learned on the hoof was the right way to go
I have been teaching lacemaking at local authority evening classes since
1978. Then, classes were very full (24 at my max, I was younger and fitter
then!). These days the numbers have dropped, but I average about 10 each
term. There has been some pressure on me in recent years to take a
Hi Christine,
Although I work in Adult Education and I also teach bobbin lace, I came out
of that area some five years ago.
Yes, we had an Ofsted inspection last year, and they didn't like what they
saw, although that was on the admin side of things. As a result of the
inspection, either
