Tutor Handbook

The course which you teach is supported by Hampshire County Council’s Hampshire Achieves.  Your class is supported by funds from the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) and is required to meet the quality standards of Ofsted as set out in the Education Inspection Framework (EIF).

In order to assure the quality of Hampshire Achieves adult community learning provision, and to strive to continually improve its quality, we carry out observations of teaching, learning and assessment on a regular basis.

The two principal reasons for the Teaching, Learning and Assessment Observation process are:

• to support tutors and centre managers in developing and delivering courses that meet the needs of learners; and the quality of the courses we run; and
• to provide us with monitoring data to inform on-going quality improvement.

Additionally, the feedback, comments and resulting grades of the observation team enable us, in conjunction with your local centre, to produce an annual Self Assessment Report, which accurately describes the overall strengths and weaknesses both of Hampshire Achieves as a whole and of the adult community learning classes you deliver on the County Council’s behalf.

Hampshire Achieves expectation is that tutors are observed on an annual basis, either by the tutor's own centre or by a member of the Hampshire Achieves team.  In addition to observe new tutors within the first two terms or six months of starting employment.