Questionable questioning, and imposter syndrome: a provocation and two reminiscences
FORUM - ISSN 0963-8253
Volume 64 Number 3 (2022)
Questionable questioning, and imposter syndrome: a provocation and two reminiscences
Colin Richards pages 154-158
DOI: 10.3898/FORUM.2022.64.3.15
Abstract
In a previous article in FORUM, Ofsted’s criteria for ‘outstanding grades’ were described as ‘outstanding nonsense’. In the first part of this short two-part article, a similarly sceptical view is taken in regard to one important practice in the current Ofsted framework – interviewing children to see how much they remember of the curriculum they have been taught. Such questioning is argued to be ‘questionable’. Then, in a pair of reminiscences which comprise the second part, the author, himself a former school inspector who worked for Ofsted for four years, considers ‘imposter syndrome’: that gap between self and role which a teacher or inspector may suddenly become aware of, perhaps acutely.
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Colin Richards (2022) Questionable questioning, and imposter syndrome: a provocation and two reminiscences , FORUM, 64(3), 154-158. https://doi.org/10.3898/FORUM.2022.64.3.15