Advanced skills teachers: appointment, deployment and impact

01 Jan 2001 Ofsted

Ref: 273

This report describes a survey of advanced skills teachers (ASTs) by Her Majesty’s Inspectors of Schools (HMI) in the academic year 1999/2000. The purpose of the survey was to examine how the skills of ASTs had been used to raise the standards of teaching and learning within their own schools, and also in outreach settings in other schools. The impact on the pay and management structures of the schools was also assessed, as was the degree of support ASTs were receiving. The survey was in two parts. The inspection was completed before the introduction of the new performance management and threshold arrangements for teachers.