How BlueSky supports Quality Assurance in schools
Gathering feedback with BlueSky’s quality assurance software reduces the workload of generating evidence for appraisal, while allowing leaders to monitor progress throughout the appraisal cycle. Feedback can be triangulated with objectives to support an individual’s career progression and adherence to teaching standards.
Our instant reporting tools allow school leaders to identify emerging talent, inform CPD strategy, and track professional growth over time. This intelligence can be mapped to the strategic goals of your educational organisation.
Complete flexibility to align with your educational organisation’s quality assurance culture
BlueSky can be tailored to support a quality assurance approach that reflects your organisation’s culture. Our quality assurance features offer a wide range of customisable templates that can be tailored to your processes, from formal monitoring to lesson visits, observations and developmental coaching.
DOCUMENT FEEDBACK
Easily capture all feedback from activities such as observations, learning walks, instructional coaching and regular line manager meetings.
CUSTOMISABLE TOOLS
Tailor terminology and pro-formas for quality assurance activities to fit with your organisation’s culture and process.
STANDARDS & FRAMEWORKS
Use the built-in teacher standards and core competencies or create your own bespoke standards and frameworks.
IDENTIFY TALENT & NEED
BlueSky’s reporting dashboard helps leaders to identify emerging talent, inform CPD strategy and evaluate teaching over time.
INSTANT REPORTING
Quickly generate intelligence and evidence to demonstrate progress to governors, trustees or inspectors.
DEVELOPMENTAL APPROACH
Triangulate feedback with appraisal and professional development objectives, mapped to strategic goals.
How to use coaching to support quality assurance in education and drive school improvement
Effective strategies for improving teaching need to be based on evidence-informed research. They must also focus on the development of pedagogy and promote collaborative professional learning though structured enquiry. One way to link these key features is through the practice of coaching.
This eBook guide considers why coaching is important, how schools can develop a coaching culture, and the different ways coaching can be used to impact on the school workforce and improvement.
The Quiet Uprising: A report into the changing shape of lesson observations in schools
Based on a comprehensive survey of school leaders, our exclusive report examines some of the current theory and practice around the lesson observation and re-ignites the debate surrounding its strengths and pitfalls for quality assurance and improvement in education. Has the time come for schools to consign the lesson observation to the past and instead explore some new techniques for improving and sharing professional skills?
Book a demo: Elevate teaching standards with BlueSky’s Quality Assurance solutions
Find out how BlueSky can support the enhancement of teaching standards and quality assurance in your education organisation. Contact us today to book a bespoke demonstration, the ideal way to understand how BlueSky can be tailored to your processes. Our team will connect with you to discuss your unique needs and arrange the demo.