What?

When undertaking work scrutiny, you will be looking at learners' work over a period of time. You can focus on a cross-section of pupils, or on a particular age range. In some cases, you will be doing this alongside the learners. This can be beneficial to enable you to gather more information about the tasks in question. 

You can look at work in books and digitally. It is important to remember that a full picture of learners' achievement is required, and this may mean you need access to a number of different services (for example Google Classroom, Flipgrid, Adobe CC Express etc.)

Advantages?

• Opportunity to check a number of aspects: consistency, standards, pedagogy, teaching.

• Opportunity to see learners' achievement over a more extended period of time

• Opportunity to compare standards and ensure continuity across the school 

• Opportunity to see the range of experiences 

What?

You will be interviewing a cross-section of learners. This can be across a range of ages.  You can interview everyone together, but it can also be effective to interview on a year group / class basis. When interviewing there will be an opportunity to discuss learners’ work with them, and the hope is that learners can explain what they have achieved, using subject terminology and technical language accurately. You will be able to see learners' confidence as they find various tasks, and see whether there is consistency in how their work is shared and stored. You can discuss the feedback they get, and how this helps them to learn and to improve the standard of their work.

Advantages?

• Direct opportunity to talk with learners about their work.

• Opportunity to hear learners' views about the work.

• Opportunity to discuss how the teaching has led to progression in standards

• Opportunities to discuss these skills in real life contexts, for example, in which situations can these skills be useful etc.

• Opportunity to discuss online safety issues with learners.

What?

During a learning walk you will visit different classrooms to see the teaching and learning in action. You can make brief visits to classrooms to develop an understanding of the lessons delivered. You will be speaking to learners to gain a full picture of the leaning process as well as hearing their views about the work and their confidence in completing it. A learning walk can be conducted across the whole school, or it can focus on an age range or specific departments. In some cases, forewarning teachers of the area under review before conducting the learning walk is effective practice, so as to ensure the area in question is in action during the lesson. This would ensure you are able to observe more factors to contribute to your enquiry, and help you to come to a judgement on what you observe. 

Advantages?

• Opportunity to review and evaluate teaching and learning

• Plenty of opportunities to speak with learners

• Opportunity to see whether the level of challenge provides continuity across the age range in question.

• Opportunities to identify effective practice to share

• Opportunity to evaluate consistency

• Get a flavour of how the area looks across the age range / departments in question

What?

When reviewing schemes of work, you will be looking through all schemes of work that contain aspects of digital learning. This will usually take place fairly early in the year in order to ensure the mapping of digital competence experiences. Mapping is the process of looking ahead over a period of time in order to ensure variety and balance throughout the area. It must be ensured planned experiences are of a high standard and develop all aspects of digital competence across the whole curriculum. 

Advantages?

• Opportunity to develop ideas further

• Ensure consistency and continuity in learning experiences

• Ensure an appropriate level of challenge, to challenge learners across the school.

• Opportunity to identify classes / departments that need further support