THEY FINALLY LISTENED AND CANCELLED THE VISIT!! WE DID IT TOGETHER AND PROVED THAT OUR WELLBEING IS NOT UP FOR DEBATE. KEEP STANDING TALL BECAUSE THIS VICTORY BELONGS TO US!!
May 21, 2021
Final supporters
Staff at Capital City College Group (CCCG) are shocked and appalled at the announcement of an Ofsted monitoring visit.
Teaching staff across CCCG have moved mountains to ensure that our students continue to receive the education they deserve. At a time when many are looking after their children through home schooling and taking care of sick members of their families, staff are doing all they can to meet the needs of their students.
Despite putting their physical and mental health at risk they have continued to go the extra mile to help their students reach their goals.
Ofsted must realise the anxiety and stress that their visits have on all staff in the sector in normal times. To announce an inspection in the midst of a pandemic that has so far claimed over 120,000 lives demonstrates either how out of touch Ofsted has become or that the organisation does not care about the wellbeing of staff and students.
The educational value of such a visit is very dubious. The idea that an inspection, whilst all teaching has moved online, can measure the development of teaching and learning at the college since the last inspection, made when full face-to-face teaching was taking place, will hold no credibility.
This visit, rather than help our struggling students and communities, will only serve to deepen the cynicism of those working within the sector towards Ofsted.
There are many other ways for Ofsted to provide support and advice in the middle of a public health crisis rather than through a miss-timed inspection to crudely measure the progress of a college.
We call upon Ofsted to pause all inspections until we are back in September 2021.
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Reached 250 supporters
February 23, 2021
Reached 100 supporters
February 23, 2021
78 Comments
Ofsted should be asking the SM what have they done to support teachers with the workload and responsibility of supporting students during such stressful and unstable times. They will see that SM have been piling on demands to ensure they impress Ofsted at our cost.
How stressful it's all become! - the teaching I am prepared to go the extra mile for - but useless paperwork to show OFSTED NO! They will not see the our work adapting to teach people who cannot read and write or even communicate in English online in very unsupported circumstances, so what's the point.
Teaching and learning from home during a pandemic lockdown is a 'crises intervention' mode of action - fuelled by anxiety, uncertainty, grief and despair. The ethical conduct of an ofstead inspection during a crisis is certainly questionable and beyond belief!!
This visit shows the utter contempt and disregard Ofsted show for professional teachers, not to mention the extraordinary lack of awareness or understanding of what extra work and hours are being forced on teaching staff every week because of working remotely. Good education management enables teaching, not disables it.
As if it was not enough that we are stressing because students are not engaging, we are being told to teach full timetable online, pairing personal life and work life at home is complicated, we are pressed by management to do all these extra things on top of teaching, we also need to worry and stress about Ofsted?????? NO!!!
It is not ‘business as usual’ at the moment, we are teaching in atypical times and no conclusions can be reasonably drawn about our teaching ability under these circumstances. Teachers are juggling childcare, lack of space and infra structure and are working flat out to make it work. We do not have full access to documents and marked work at home. We were sent into lockdown with no warning. This has been an incredible stressful time for teachers who have gone above and beyond the call of duty at great risk to their mental and physical health. To demand documents and to observe online lessons with 48 hrs notice is completely unreasonable and counter productive. A level teachers have had barely any guidance on assessment methods since the cancellation of the exams CAG results were queried by Ofsted which makes the inspection especially pointless. If students were able to make more progress this year than last then there would have been no justification for cancelling the exams. It would be more helpful is Ofsted ex teacher inspectors offered to help plug the gaps in education rather than criticise those who are working flat out to deliver specifications online.
Ofsted visit during pandemic and hard time is not reflective.
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THEY FINALLY LISTENED AND CANCELLED THE VISIT!! WE DID IT TOGETHER AND PROVED THAT OUR WELLBEING IS NOT UP FOR DEBATE. KEEP STANDING TALL BECAUSE THIS VICTORY BELONGS TO US!!
May 21, 2021
Final supporters
Staff at Capital City College Group (CCCG) are shocked and appalled at the announcement of an Ofsted monitoring visit.
Teaching staff across CCCG have moved mountains to ensure that our students continue to receive the education they deserve. At a time when many are looking after their children through home schooling and taking care of sick members of their families, staff are doing all they can to meet the needs of their students.
Despite putting their physical and mental health at risk they have continued to go the extra mile to help their students reach their goals.
Ofsted must realise the anxiety and stress that their visits have on all staff in the sector in normal times. To announce an inspection in the midst of a pandemic that has so far claimed over 120,000 lives demonstrates either how out of touch Ofsted has become or that the organisation does not care about the wellbeing of staff and students.
The educational value of such a visit is very dubious. The idea that an inspection, whilst all teaching has moved online, can measure the development of teaching and learning at the college since the last inspection, made when full face-to-face teaching was taking place, will hold no credibility.
This visit, rather than help our struggling students and communities, will only serve to deepen the cynicism of those working within the sector towards Ofsted.
There are many other ways for Ofsted to provide support and advice in the middle of a public health crisis rather than through a miss-timed inspection to crudely measure the progress of a college.
We call upon Ofsted to pause all inspections until we are back in September 2021.
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
February 23, 2021
Reached 100 supporters
February 23, 2021
78 Comments
I think that our government should trust us, the teachers of CONEL . more. Teaching is not a mere job, it is a calling which does not need monitoring. We all are doing an excellent work trying not just to teach our subjects but also support our students in these difficult times. I strongly believe that OFSTED visit is unnecessary.
Ofsted should be asking the SM what have they done to support teachers with the workload and responsibility of supporting students during such stressful and unstable times. They will see that SM have been piling on demands to ensure they impress Ofsted at our cost.
How stressful it's all become! - the teaching I am prepared to go the extra mile for - but useless paperwork to show OFSTED NO! They will not see the our work adapting to teach people who cannot read and write or even communicate in English online in very unsupported circumstances, so what's the point.
Teaching and learning from home during a pandemic lockdown is a 'crises intervention' mode of action - fuelled by anxiety, uncertainty, grief and despair. The ethical conduct of an ofstead inspection during a crisis is certainly questionable and beyond belief!!
This visit shows the utter contempt and disregard Ofsted show for professional teachers, not to mention the extraordinary lack of awareness or understanding of what extra work and hours are being forced on teaching staff every week because of working remotely. Good education management enables teaching, not disables it.
As if it was not enough that we are stressing because students are not engaging, we are being told to teach full timetable online, pairing personal life and work life at home is complicated, we are pressed by management to do all these extra things on top of teaching, we also need to worry and stress about Ofsted?????? NO!!!
It is not ‘business as usual’ at the moment, we are teaching in atypical times and no conclusions can be reasonably drawn about our teaching ability under these circumstances. Teachers are juggling childcare, lack of space and infra structure and are working flat out to make it work. We do not have full access to documents and marked work at home. We were sent into lockdown with no warning. This has been an incredible stressful time for teachers who have gone above and beyond the call of duty at great risk to their mental and physical health. To demand documents and to observe online lessons with 48 hrs notice is completely unreasonable and counter productive. A level teachers have had barely any guidance on assessment methods since the cancellation of the exams CAG results were queried by Ofsted which makes the inspection especially pointless. If students were able to make more progress this year than last then there would have been no justification for cancelling the exams. It would be more helpful is Ofsted ex teacher inspectors offered to help plug the gaps in education rather than criticise those who are working flat out to deliver specifications online.
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I think that our government should trust us, the teachers of CONEL . more. Teaching is not a mere job, it is a calling which does not need monitoring. We all are doing an excellent work trying not just to teach our subjects but also support our students in these difficult times. I strongly believe that OFSTED visit is unnecessary.