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Quality of teaching and the role of governors

Fergal Roche suggests six ways that school governors can help to improve teaching standards

What do you think would do most to improve education in our schools? When The Key put this question to governors across England earlier this year, “better quality teaching” was the most common answer. Asked to select up to three possible changes from a list of 12, more of the 1,320 governors who responded chose better quality teaching (39 per cent) than smaller class sizes and better quality leadership.

We know there are many outstanding teachers in schools today, but how can we ensure that outstanding is the norm? Clearly there is no quick-fix, but there are some steps that governors can take, working closely with the senior leadership team, to keep driving up the quality of teaching throughout their school.

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