In my day job, I travel the country talking to school teachers and leaders and the question I am asked more than any other is this: “What is an outstanding lesson?”
My answer, rather disappointingly for my inquisitors, is that there is no “silver bullet”.
I have taught and observed a lot of lessons over the years and I think I’m pretty good at recognising an outstanding one when I see it. I can wax lyrical for hours about all the outstanding teaching I have seen and about the “spark” that makes some lessons better than others.
Having read the guidance Ofsted provides for its inspectors, I am also confident I know how Ofsted differentiates between an outstanding lesson and, say, a good one.
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