 last day before the end of term for people to come together in their own time to stay at 10 to 9 on a school night this person put in and has put in so many hours mainly bossing us around mainly bossing Ian around at the back who I think calls him the enforcer or something along those lines um however you know it there is absolutely nothing in it for someone like Ross that is putting all of this time and effort just so that he can share his passion with others and they can share their passion with others further so I mean I only know him as teacher toolkit even though I do know him personally he is presenting I don't believe he presents very often so we're in for a real sweet treat to have him here I meant to do that for Rudi and Slip and I knew when Ross had like a thousand five hundred followers on Twitter and now he's got over a hundred thousand the most influential teacher on the social media sphere ladies and gentlemen big massive round of applause for Ross McGill okay uh right I like to challenge national policy that's the way I like to do things so I'm going to speak incredibly quickly uh how can we generally improve teaching I want as all to consider something another brick in the wall perhaps something to make it stronger if we keep doing the same old thinking we get the same old results in 2014 or before 800 hours of teaching throughout an academic year someone came at a classroom for three hours a year and then put you in a box judged you okay all sorts of outcomes 18 months ago few bloggers myself included challenged off-stair we kept pushing pushing and eventually took gradings out of the off-stead framework so no more grades hooray can we have a big cheer okay good in our school so we don't grade lessons we have department reviews uh we have a learning policy that's evolving on a mark plan teach model it kind of tries to reduce workload it's got a common vernacular that we're trying to get all our teachers to use same you know we want staff to be creative but we want kids to get the same experiences from classroom to classroom plus we have an overtime methodology rather than the one-off snapshot some schools still do learning walks and apparently you don't give feedback why generalized sweeping generalization so I think we need to stop it this is my next provocation teaching stuck if we keep doing learning walks without giving that teacher some feedback so here's one more brick I'd like us to consider coaching this is something given quite a lot of thought over the last two or three months and something I'd like us to consider so I'm going to be quick vanish lesson gradings forever stop traditional three lessons per year no more formal observations ever can we have a cheer please okay every teacher to receive coaching quarter of your staff at least to be a coach we've got allocating funding allocating time 50 minute observations 30 minutes feedback no paperwork an optional logbook rigorous training for the coach relationships outside of appraisal across departments across roles a specific framework that common vernacular again keeps saying a certain script as a coach the cycle would repeat every week and it would last for at least two terms it would also be voluntary so the maths believe it or not it's a long time since I was an NQT but 27 000 pound in a London it's works out to be about 120 pound a day very sad do you look at that as a basic model 38 lessons throughout the year once a week 760 pounds it works out to be we look at 25 staff about that scale I'm very I failed the maths by the way so 19 000 pound equivalent to make that work for 25 staff obviously you take those lessons away they need to be covered by someone else so you could double that amount that's what we're talking about to make this work for 50 teachers at the various scales various kind of NPS and UPS there's the maths probably very crude it's on my blog can read it later that's the figure so you're looking at two or three NQT salaries that kind of level to make this work in your school the future this is my next blog rant the educational excellence everywhere to finish off a little heads up offstead will consult on removing the separate graded judgments on the quality of teaching and learning in their inspection so in many ways that's a good thing they're going to let us just get on with it but this is what we're all about teaching and learning so fair enough look at the day to look at the outcomes but that's the heads up and I'd like to challenge offstead that that can happen from September thank you very much for everyone coming this evening thank you for listening