What does the provider need to do to improve further?
- Ensure tutors routinely:
- plan in detail how they can manage classroom activities more effectively so that they are more lively and involve learners more actively
- use assessment information on individuals through which they can stretch and challenge all learners
- use a more varied range of strategies to check and reinforce learning
- give all learners more individual coaching and feedback in lessons
- receive good training to improve their confidence, awareness and expertise so that they fully integrate appreciation of diversity into lessons more effectively.
- Set and enforce high expectations on punctuality and attendance so that absences and late arrivals in class are rare.
- Ensure that self-assessment reports give clear and detailed evaluations of the quality of teaching, learning and assessment.
Key areas for improvement
- Low level one further education success rates
- Balance between group and individual tuition
- Insufficient advice and guidance for community learners
- Application of the recognition and recording of performance and achievement to meet individual learner goals
- Insufficient progression opportunities
- Insufficient evaluation of staff development activity
Key challenges for Tower Hamlets LEA
- fully implement a quality assurance framework which leads to improvements
- use management information to guide the decision-making processes
- introduce better and more effective initial assessment of learners’ skills
- introduce and implement a system to monitor learners’ progress more effectively
- use individual learning plans more effectively
- fully deliver the LLS’s vision
- ensure that the numeracy, literacy and language needs of learners are fully met
- ensure more consistent curriculum management
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