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My grammar school definitely mentioned in assemblies before the inspections that we should all be on our best behaviour, I'm pretty sure that's fairly standard

• dan-robertson 6y ago
  I think you’re right that telling students to behave is common. I think now the assessments happen wi less notice (day of or day before.) I’m not sure how I feel about inspections happening with so little notice. It’s surely a very stressful time to be a teacher. I wonder if inspections might be more fair if instead of a single inspection, several could be made over a year and then aggregated into the school’s grade.
  • dash2 6y ago
    I would think unannounced inspections might be less stressful than announced ones. You have to make less effort preparing for them, and the standards are going to be a bit more relaxed, because the inspectors won't assume that you have prepared.
    • dan-robertson 6y ago
      Well if you’re having a bad week or teaching a harder/slower/weirder part of the curriculum at the time or otherwise feel like you’re not on your best form it could be stressful. I don’t know how important inspections are to eg teachers’ pay or promotions but if they do matter then I think teachers would be stressed by a random inspection having an outsize impact on their careers compared to every other day