New Ofsted Criteria 2012 – How We Can Help
January 6, 2012 // Comments OffFrom January, Ofsted are changing the way schools are inspected. New criteria have been set out to focus on four main areas:
- The achievement of pupils
- The quality of teaching
- The quality of leadership and management
- The standards of behaviour and safety
- New Ofsted Criteria 2012
With our ICT and e-learning products, your school can foster outstanding teaching, learning and communication to help meet these new standards. Take a look below at each of the criteria to find out more about some of the solutions available.
Improve Pupil Achievement
- Engage pupils with inspiring multimedia teaching resources.
- Support personalised learning with differentiated content
Use podcasts, games or video content in a Moodle or Learnanywhere primary VLE to create inspiring resources and lessons for your class. Then, personalise your follow up activities online. Provide study aids like number lines or vocabulary lists to help less able children, or challenge high achievers by setting new extension tasks with the click of a mouse.
Raise Quality of Teaching
- Share lesson plans and resources with staff
- Access professional development materials from home or school
Improve teaching in your school by sharing best practice in the primary specific Learnanywhere, or Moodle VLEs. Use either platform to create an online library full of outstanding lesson plans, useful resource packs and helpful training sessions, so you can learn with your colleagues.
Promote Effective Leadership and Management
- Promote your school’s brand and ethos on the web
- Report key attainment, attendance and behavioural data to parents
School Jotter, the easy-to-use school website builder will help you effectively advertise your school online. Design an attractive website full of multimedia content that helps promote your school to any potential parents and visitors.
Both the Moodle and Learnanywhere VLEs can help your leadership team too. With SIMS or MIS integration, your VLE can become a live reporting centre, helping you engage parents and meet government expectations regarding online parental reporting.
Standards of Behaviour and Safety
- Educate your pupils about e-safety
- Reward good behaviour through e-rewards
Improve your e-safety standards with the e-portfolio and safe social network Student Jotter. Using the service, students can learn to use social networking safely by commenting and messaging in a secure monitored environment.
You’ll also be able to use our services to encourage good behaviour in school. Online reward systems using points, trophies, stars and comments can all be incorporated into software like Learnanywhere to create a culture of positive praise throughout the school community.
Find Out More
To learn more about how our products and packages can help you improve or maintain your Ofsted results through effective use of ICT, please fill in our contact form or call any time on 0800 862 0131.
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