How To Tell If The Teachers At A Secondary School Are Any Good

How do I tell if the teachers are any good?

You've got much more information. You've got the examination results. You can use a site like the Good Schools Guide website, which carries all examination results and compares them with each other to see how good each department is. You've got mechanical ways of looking for good teaching. Again, as with primary schools, if something is really good then the pupils will be enthusiatic about it. It's what they will talk about as they go around the school. If you ask them who their favorite teachers are or what's really well taught here, they will tell you. They won't tell you about the bad ones because pupils, when you're visiting a school, will tend to be loyal about teachers and tell you bad stories about teachers they're unhappy with. There would have to be something really wrong or just a really affected child for that to happen. If you ask them what's good and know what's missing, then you will probably have an idea where the lesson is and where it is offset by good reports.