How the Flemish Inspectorate stimulates innovative schools

Flemish Inspectorate of EducationIngrid Ocket & Frans De Bie, inspectors

3 key words

1. autonomy2. support

3. accountability

Quality assurancein Flemish education

Quality of Education = responsibility of schools

SchoolsAutonomy

FlemishGovernmentRules and regulations

Inspectorate

Accountability(+ support)

PedagogicalCounsellingServices

Support

Role of the inspectorate check the 3 quality conditions • does the school respect the rules and regulations and deliver

quality education and good quality outcomes? • does the school provide quality monitoring, assuring the

quality of the educational processes?• does the school have capacity to establish good policy?

write school reports

advise further recognition

CONTEXT

INPUT

PROCESSES

GENERAL Leadership Development of vision Decision making Quality assurance

STAFF

HRM organisation evaluation Professionalisation new teachers professionalisation of

staff

Results Final

objectives Developmental

objectives

OUTPUT

LOGISTICS Management of logistics infrastructure equipment Financial means Safety and well-being health hygiene environment safety

EDUCATION

Curriculum Organising/planning the education Contents of the education Pupil’s guidance External vs internal guidance Guidance of learning capacities social and emotional guidance sociale en emotionele begeleiding Evaluation practice of evaluating pupils reporting

Pupils’ progress School career

of pupils Attendance

Outcomes Results in

following educational stage

Employment

Satisfaction pupils staff other

stakeholders

identification coordinates type of school

Legislative framework General legislation Specific legislation

history Changes in management Changes in structure

Site Buildings / area situated characteristics of surrounding

area

personnel Pupils characteristics

CIPO

Preliminary enquiry Audit

Data analysis

Examination:interviews

observations

Interpretation

Deliberation:focus for the audit

Quality examination

Inspection report

Data analysis

Examination:interviews

observations

Interpretation

Deliberation:advice

Results ofdata analysis

Results of examination:

interviewsobservations

Results ofinterpretation

Results of deliberation:strenghts and weaknesses

advice

InterpretationIntegral image of estimated strenghts and weaknesses

DeliberationRepresentative selection of estimated strenghts/weaknesses

Audit focus Selection of audit items

integral enquiry to assess the local situation:

Preliminary enquiry

profound and differentiated case-studies

technique of triangulation

• conversations

• observations

• document analysis

Audit

with the following basic questions as a guideline:

• which initiatives and innovations are being developed?

• how the team has chosen the initiatives and innovations

• which effects does the team want to achieve by these?

• what are the current effects?• how do the team members themselves evaluate

the obtained learning effects, results?

Audit

Additional enquiries Language policy

Science Techniques Engineering Mathematics (STEM)

Social Economical Status (SES)

Wellbeing

report about the 3 quality conditions• respecting the rules and regulations • quality monitoring, assuring the quality of the

educational processes• capacity to establish good policy

the results of our enquiries with special attention for• our confidence in the institution’s autonomy• deliberation, weighing « strengths » and

« weaknesses »• stimulation• signalisation in case of serious structural

weaknesses

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Inspection report

chapter with strenghts and weaknesses• relevant aspects which are good,

examples of good practice • relevant aspects which can be improved,

levers for improvement• relevant aspects which have to be

improved, the subject(s) of further control

Inspection report

concluding conversation about the report

publication on a public website

no ‘ranking’

Final touch

Study PhD Ilse De Volder

Final thoughts?

Questions?