Angela Milner, HMI, Specialist Adviser for ITE at Ofsted, discusses the inspection process for initial teacher education partners.

1. Westminster Education Forum
Inspecting the quality of ITE
partnerships
Angela Milner, HMI
Specialist Adviser for ITE
Ofsted
London 26 June 2018
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2. What Ofsted inspects
Ofsted is responsible for carrying out ITE inspections of:
 all providers of programmes leading to qualified teacher
status (QTS) for maintained schools
 programmes of further education (FE) teacher training
validated by higher education institutions
 all providers of programmes leading to early years teacher
status (EYTS).
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3. ITE inspections
The inspection of an ITE partnership provides:
 an independent external evaluation of the quality and
effectiveness of an ITE partnership against a published set
of criteria
 a diagnosis of what an ITE partnership should do to
improve.
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4. Inspections of ITE partnerships
 Ofsted inspects ITE partnerships in accordance with the Ofsted
ITE inspection framework and ITE inspection handbook.
 All ITE partnerships are inspected at least once during an
inspection cycle.
 The current inspection cycle runs from September 2012 to
December 2018.
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5. Key judgements
 One key judgement for overall effectiveness
 In judging the ITE partnership’s overall effectiveness,
inspectors will take account of three key judgements:
-outcomes for trainees
-the quality of training across the partnership
-the leadership and management of the partnership
and compliance in relation to statutory ITT criteria and
requirements and all relevant legislation.
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6. The current two-stage process
Stage 1 inspections focus on:
 the quality of training and its impact on trainees’ outcomes
at the end of their training.
Stage 2 inspections focus on:
 newly qualified teachers (NQTs), to see how well their
training prepared them for employment.
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7. The ITE, induction, NQT continuum
Inspectors evaluate the effectiveness of:
 leaders and managers liaison with employing settings, schools
and colleges, in the local area/region, in order to promote the
high quality induction of NQTs.
Inspection reports identify strengths and weaknesses in the
following areas:
 transition documentation
 the quality of support
 the quality of liaison with employers.
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8. Primary and secondary ITE inspections in
2017
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9. Areas for improvement in primary and
secondary ITE inspections in 2017:
 the quality of transition documentation and targets
 teachers’ standard 5 and particularly trainees’ ability to adapt
their teaching to meet pupils’ needs
 teachers’ standard 6 using assessment information to maximise
pupils’ learning and progress (links to teachers’ standard 2)
 subject knowledge, development, curriculum and pedagogy
 the accuracy of assessment and final moderation procedures
 the analysis of evaluative information to accurately track
trainees’ professional development and drive improvements.
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10. Primary and secondary QTS inspections
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11. Areas for improvement
Primary:
 narrowness of training in relation to the breadth of the primary
curriculum
 limited age phase experience, particularly in Reception
 limited practical experience in teaching reading and phonics.
Secondary:
 specific subject training, trainees’ subject knowledge and
subject pedagogy
 practical experience across age phase of training, particularly
key stage 5.
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12. The ITE remit beyond December 2018
 Review and discussions about Ofsted’s ITE remit beyond December
2018.
 We need to ensure that Ofsted’s ITE remit effectively reflects:
− Ofsted’s agreed view of the purpose of inspection
− links to Ofsted’s curriculum survey work: do we place
sufficient emphasis on inspecting trainees’ subject knowledge
and understanding of curriculum development?
− links to Ofsted’s education inspection framework (EIF)
developments
− links to shifts in emphasis in ITE and education policy.
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13. What should a future framework focus on?
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reports are more
useful than grades
inspector workforce
reducing the burden
quality,
professional
dialogue and
support to
improve
more proportionate
and prioritised
inspections go beyond the DfE’s teachers’
standards and ITT core content
observations of centre-
based training
the impact of the
partnership on
the wider
educational
context
dissemination of
Ofsted’s findings
to the sector
Focus on trainees rather than
newly qualified teachers (NQTs)
of ITE s

14. Ofsted on the web and on social media
www.gov.uk/ofsted
http://reports.ofsted.gov.uk
www.linkedin.com/company/ofsted
www.youtube.com/ofstednews
www.slideshare.net/ofstednews
www.twitter.com/ofstednews
ITE mailbox: ite@ofsted.gov.uk
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