Teacher Appraisal: A Guide to Training (Educational Management)

244 Pages·1993·2.23 MB·English

by  C. D. Poster

Teacher appraisal
EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT SERIES
Edited by Cyril Poster
Managing the Primary School
Joan Dean
Schools, Parents and Governors: A New Approach to Accountability
Joan Sallis
Management Skills in Primary Schools
Les Bell
Special Needs in the Secondary School: The Whole School Approach
Joan Dean
The Management of Special Needs in Ordinary Schools
Edited by Neville Jones and Tim Southgate
Creating an Excellent School: Some New Management Techniques
Hedley Beare, Brian Caldwell and Ross Milikan
Time-constrained Evaluation
Brian Wilcox
Performance-related Pay in Education
Edited by Harry Tomlinson
Evaluation in Schools: Getting Started on Training and Implementation
Glyn Rogers and Linda Badham
Managing Change in Schools
Colin Newton and Tony Tarrant
Managing Teams in Secondary Schools
Les Bell
Managing Evaluation in Education
Kath Aspinwall, Tim Simkins, John F.Wilkinson and M.John McAuley
Education for the Twenty-first Century
Hedley Beare and Richard Slaughter
Parents and Schools: Customers, Managers or Partners?
Edited by Pamela Munn
Education 16–19: In Transition
Eric MacFarlane
Opting for Self-management
Brent Davies and Lesley Anderson
Managing External Relations in Schools
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Edited by Nick Foskett
School-based Management and School Effectiveness
Edited by Clive Dimmock
Enterprise Learning in Action: Education and Economic Renewal for the Twenty-
first Century
Dale E.Shuttleworth
Teacher appraisal
Training and implementation
Second edition
Cyril and Doreen Poster
London and New York
First published 1991
Second edition published 1993
by Routledge
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Contents
List of figures xi
List of training materials xii
Introduction xiii
1 What is appraisal? 1
Individual and organisational needs 2
Organisational management styles 4
Organisational climate and appraisal 5
The range of the appraisal process 6
The potentialities of appraisal 6
Models of staff appraisal 8
2 The evolution of appraisal 11
Legislation 14
A national framework 15
3 The regulations and their implications 18
Teachers to whom the regulations apply 18
Appraisal and school development plans 19
The appraisal cycle 20
The timetable for the introduction of appraisal 20
Work to be appraised 22
The selection of appraisers: schoolteachers 22
The selection of appraisers: headteachers 24
The selection of appraisers: deputy headteachers 25
The components of appraisal: schoolteachers 26
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The components of appraisal: headteachers 30
The role of the governing body 31
Monitoring the appraisal process 34
Appeals procedures 34
Corporate colleges 34
City technology colleges 36
4 Job descriptions, job specifications and goalsetting 38
Job description 39
Job specification 39
Goalsetting 46
Agreeing goals 46
Anticipating constraints 49
Contingency planning 50
Contracting 51
Monitoring 51
Training for goalsetting 53
5 Classroom observation 59
Briefing for classroom observation 62
Debriefing 71
Who will observe? 75
How to observe 76
6 Training for classroom observation 78
Criteria for good classroom performance 78
The Scottish model 81
Dudley, West Midlands 82
Materials for classroom observation training 84
Training programmes 87
Conclusion 88
7 Task observation and data collection 96
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Middle and senior managers 97
Headteacher task observation 100
Data collection 103
8 The skills of interviewing 106
Active listening 106
Questioning skills 109
Negotiation 112
Counselling 113
Conclusion 115
Training for interviewing skills 116
9 The appraisal interview 119
Preparation by appraiser 119
The agenda 121
School developments 122
Self-appraisal 124
Sharing the self-appraisal 126
Preparing the interview 127
Notetaking 128
Conclusion 128
10 Training for appraisal interviewing 131
The replay session 132
The evaluation session 132
The post mortem session 133
Appraiser case studies 133
Role-play 139
Training materials 143
11 The appraisal statement 148
The appraisal statement: Part I 149
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The appraisal statement: Part II 152
12 Appraising headteachers and deputies 160
Corporate management 160
The appraisal interview 162
All headteachers as peer appraisers? 164
Creating the agenda for headteacher appraisal 165
The School Management Competences Project 166
The headteacher appraisal statement 167
Appraising deputy headteachers 168
Self-appraisal 170
The follow-up and formal review 170
13 Grant-maintained schools and the regulations 173
Appraisal of headteachers 174
Governors and disciplinary procedures 178
Appraisal of deputy headteachers 180
Monitoring and evaluation 180
14 Appraisal in Scotland and Northern Ireland 182
The Crieff national seminar 183
National guidelines for Scotland 185
Case study: Banchory Academy 187
Northern Ireland 189
The pilot scheme 189
The pilot procedures 191
The future of performance review in Northern Ireland 192
15 Quality control and appraisal 193
The school development plan 194
The curriculum development plan 195
The school development review or inspection 195
The business plan 196