Posts Tagged ‘HMIE’
Secrets and lies, openness and closure…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: July 6, 2011
“Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it” So said German philosopher Georg Simmel over one hundred years ago. And with the birth of Education Scotland perhaps, or even, hopefully, we can look forward to a new era of openness and transparency [...]
Bye bye, LTS….gone but not forgotten !
Posted by: mimanifesto on: July 1, 2011
- In: AiFL | capacity-building | change | future of education
- 4 Comments
So, it’s July first, and LTS is no more. Subsumed in Education Scotlandtogether with HMIE. Gone, but not forgotten. Why not forgotten? Because LTS has become a byword for a cack-handed, lackadaisical, inefficient, money-wasting mess, with a reputation for inadequate project management for just about anything they’ve ever laid their sorry hands on. Teachers up [...]
SNP open to change on GLOW…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: May 5, 2011
Following on from my recent post on the Scottish government elections and social media use, there were some more interesting exchanges with former education minister Mike Russell. In response to criticism of GLOW and its management to date on Twitter. Mr Russell made several interesting comments.. In reply to this post from a Scots twitterer [...]
Self-evaluation – an update
Posted by: mimanifesto on: September 26, 2008
This is an update to my post on the self-evaluation web application and the new HMIE inspection process. Regular Self-evaluation embedded into the routine of a school will almost certainly lead to a growing culture of reflection and this can only be good for classroom practice but to start with, if a system such as this could [...]
Self-evaluation and a cuddlier friendlier HMIe ?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: September 25, 2008
- In: ICT | Inspection | Quality assurance | smt
- 2 Comments
I suppose everyone is going to be blogging about SLF08, and rightly so. What a fantastic event this year’s has turned out to be. I’m going to be writing a little (!) about my thoughts over the next week or so but I’m going to start with something I took time to check out this [...]
Leading schools out of innovation fatigue
Posted by: mimanifesto on: May 23, 2008
- In: Leadership
- 1 Comment
Listen to staffroom chat or read the pages and discussion boards of TES and you appear to get, at face value anyway, a sense of staff feeling overloaded with one so-called initiative after another coming down from on high. Be it GLOW, AiFL, or ACfE, the sense of despair can be at times very real. Now having [...]
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