Teacher unions are rightly championing a reduction in teacher workload and flagging up the negative impact of the audit culture on recruitment and retention in the profession.
The audit culture also receives attention from Ofsted’s new framework proposals which look set to place assessment and evaluation firmly in the frame.
But some schools have already morphed into micro-inspection machines, where teachers spend more time assessing than teaching, and leaders spend more time monitoring and evaluating than leading and modelling good practice.
I once heard a deputy head refer to his “AIR folder” as he proudly showed me around his office, which was littered with charts, graphs and spreadsheets. AIR stood for “Always Inspection Ready”!
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