What does the provider need to do to improve?
- Strengthen teachers’ regular use of a wide range of assessment techniques in lessons. Ensure that teachers use these to check frequently on students’ learning and progress and reshape their lessons appropriately to accelerate the pace, increase the level of challenge and deepen understanding where appropriate.
- Promote students’ development of English and mathematics by reinforcing correct use of language, technical vocabulary spelling, reading, writing and use of mathematical skills in subject-based lessons. Ensure that teachers correct spelling and grammar consistently in written work.
- Sharpen the effectiveness of students’ short-term targets in individual learning plans to help them accelerate the progress they make.
- Make full use of opportunities to develop students’ learning about cultural differences.
- Ensure the management of apprenticeships is more effective by monitoring their progress rigorously, strengthening the link between training and assessment and ensuring employers and learners understand the programme fully
What does Brooksby Melton College need to do to improve further?
- Ensure that senior managers and programme teams monitor the progress of employment-based learners closely through detailed training plans shared with employers and learners.
- Improve the pace and range of stimulating learning activities and the interactive use of ILT, so that learners are challenged and motivated to learn and progress.
- Improve target setting in individual learning plans, as part of strengthening the tutorial process, so that learners of all abilities are inspired to achieve demanding aims.
- Monitor the quality of assessment rigorously and increase the sharing of good practice, so that all learners improve the accuracy of their written work and learn how to improve their next assignment.
- Ensure that teaching, training and assessment emphasises and maximises the opportunities for the promotion of equality and support for diversity.
- Improve the rigour of self-assessment by ensuring that the quality of workbased learning provision is incorporated appropriately into the process and extending the scope of self-assessment to evaluate all aspects of the college’s work fully.
- Finalise and implement the single equality policy including ensuring that equality impact assessments are carried out promptly and that all staff receive training in equality and diversity to update their knowledge.
- Improve performance management of teachers by ensuring that appraisals are carried out regularly and that the outcomes inform the staff development programme.
Areas for improvement
The college should address:
- the management of key skills
- the moderation and rigour of the lesson observation system
- success rates, particularly for work-based learning and key skills
- progress of financial recovery and the accommodation strategy
- tutorial and target setting processes.
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What should be improved?
- undemanding teaching
- health, social care and childcare provision
- students' punctuality and attendance
- procedures to improve the quality of teaching and learning
- teaching of key skills • use of data for quality improvement
- monitoring of equal opportunities
- access for people with restricted mobility.
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