Leadership and Management

The 2011 Ofsted annual report reviews Leadership & Management on pages 63 - 69.  Ofsted believe that "the quality of leadership and management makes a critical contribution to the quality of teaching and learning."

Features that reduce the quality of leadership & management include:

• "The evaluation of teaching is often over-generous, and places too little emphasis on exploring what pupils are actually learning and the progress that they are making, focusing rather on the activity of the teacher." 
• "Best practice is not shared effectively" and "weaknesses that emerge in the monitoring are not pursued."
• "The limited role of the governing body in self-evaluation"
• "Inconsistent school systems for making use of assessment to accelerate learning." Pupil progress data "is not always used efficiently to intervene and support pupils who are falling behind."
• "The lack of leadership from middle managers, for example in improving the quality of teaching or ensuring the systematic monitoring of pupils’ progress, was also a common weakness, although this was sometimes due to the failure of senior leaders to delegate responsibility or ensure that middle management was effective."