Free article: Making performance management count in school improvement  

What do you need to do to make performance management a watertight process that makes a real contribution to school improvement? Keith Wright has some suggestions.

Free article: Monitoring and coaching through lesson observation  

John Viner explores ways to develop a culture of continual 
improvement in teaching through lesson observation.

Linking pupil outcomes with performance management and salaries  

From September 2014, Ofsted will be focusing more closely on performance management in schools. In this article Tony Powell discusses what inspectors will be looking for.

School teachers’ performance-related pay (PRP)  

Learn about the most important changes to school teachers’ pay in the 21st School Teachers Review Body (STRB) report and the impact that PRP will have on your school.

Free article: Making performance appraisal an objective and helpful process  

Performance appraisal is crucial to school improvement, but many schools are still without a rigorous and transparent way of carrying it out, says Keith Wright. Here, he analyses the challenges and outlines key principles that underpin it.

Creating and maintaining vision in your school  

Governors can help create and establish a vision for schools.  Kate Foale talks to governors, and those working with them, from her own experience.

Performance management and capability  

David Brierley gives a review of the September 2012 changes to performance management and capability.

Form - Action and support plan for improvement  

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Checklist - Linking performance management to school improvement  

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Handout - Government response to the workload challenge  

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Handout for staff - Government response to the workload challenge

Form - Year R progress in area of learning  

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Form - Year N progress in area of learning  

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Worked example - The Teachers Standards observation  

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Table - Assessment using Blooms Taxonomy of Cognitive and Knowledge Dimensions  

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Table - An overview of assessment: how a blend of assessments interrelate  

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Form - Teachers Standards observation (blank)  

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Form - Teachers appraisal review statement guidance  

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Form - Evaluation of teaching over time using the Teachers Standards  

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Handout - Report of the NAHT commission on assessment  

 

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Step by step guide - CPD activity  

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Worked example - Types of continuing professional development  

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Checklist - Step by step through capability procedures  

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Handout - School Teachers Pay and Conditions document  

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Form - Preparation for performance-related pay  

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Q. With changes to accountability measures, how will SEN pupils’ progress be reported?  

Q: We have just reviewed out staff pay policy. What advice do you have about implementing the initial stages of performance-related pay?  

A: Although progression has been assured this year, the new policy should provide clarity on the decision making process as we move into a new era of performance-related pay.