Be Outstanding: How To Achieve Outstanding Lessons Under The New Ofsted Framework

'Be Outstanding' has quickly earned its place as one of the best selling guides to help teachers deliver outstanding lessons. Although it was written for UK teachers, its international appeal means it is now being used by teachers across the world. This succinct, helpful guide covers a wide range of practical techniques that have been successfully proven to help teachers improve teaching and learning in order to achieve outstanding grading under the current Ofsted framework. The techniques used in this book helped the author's school raise the quality of teaching and learning from 40% to 82% good or better in just 9 months.It gives clear, practical advice about what you should and should not do in observations and in your everyday teaching. Suitable for teachers in primary, secondary and post 16 education; for experienced and trainee teachers; and senior leaders with responsibility for CPD and teaching.

A senior school leader with responsibility for raising the standards of teaching and learning, KJ O'Hara has had the experience of being inspected over 20 times by Ofsted and Local Authorities, including under the new Ofsted Framework. During his last post, along with his colleagues, he implemented and developed a set of classroom practices that raised the percentage of teaching graded good or better from 4o% to 82% in just 9 months and helped the school get out of Special Measures, under the new Ofsted Framework, in just 15 months. KJ O'Hara is the author of several books on teaching and the editor of the 'Abridged Shakespeare for Schools' series.