In our self-improving school system, most schools are committed to continually reviewing and evaluating their provision to ensure they provide the highest Quality of Education for each and all of their learners. A well thought through Quality Assurance (QA) policy…
Good school leaders recognise that gathering evidence to support the performance management process should, most importantly, build an individual’s confidence in their development and achievements. It should also: be simple, not be bureaucratic and increase workload; and point towards areas…
Objective Setting is Changing Talking to our partner schools in England and Wales it is becoming clear that many schools are moving away from very specific and narrow quantitative, target-based objectives and towards objectives that are more aligned to the…
Too often these are treated as separate things, to be carried out independently rather than as processes which are interrelated and should be viewed as one. The questions for schools are: “What practices and processes can we put in place…
In the last blog earlier this month, suggestions were made to not let appraisal sit metaphorically on the shelf until October and that action was needed this term in order to ensure the appraisal process has impact and supports colleagues’…
It is that time of the year when the teaching profession begins to look back on the academic year that has just about gone and begins thinking about next year. There is also some light at the end of the…
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