Performance Management Briefing and Planning event

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Performance ManagementBriefing and Planning event
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The Performance Management cycle

• Monitoring Supporting
• Monitoring of performance throughout the cycle
• Provision of agreed support
• Evidence collection
• Ongoing professional dialogue

• Planning
• Objectives set
• Classroom observation and evidence collection
  agreed
• Performance criteria for the above set
• Support, training and development agreed
• Timescales set

• Reviewing
• Overall assessment of individuals progress
  against the performance criteria
• Recommendations for pay progression made for
  eligible teachers
• No surprises

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Achieving an understanding of Overall
Performance
Overall Performance

• There are two elements to overall performance
• An assumption that a teacher/head teacher is
  meeting the requirements of their job
  description, the relevant professional duties,
  and the relevant professional standards.
• The content of the planning and review statement,
  which focuses on the key priorities for the
  individual during that performance management
  cycle.

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The revised regulations- 5 key areas of
difference
Planning meeting
Classroom observation
Review and the link to pay
Roles and responsibilities
Process and timing
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The Planning Meeting- what the revised
regulations say
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Classroom observation and other evidence- what
the revised regulations say
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Classroom observation and other evidence- what
the revised regulations say (cont.)
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Monitoring Support- what the revised
regulations say
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The Review Meeting- what the revised regulations
say
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Roles Responsibilities- what the revised
regulations say
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Process and Timings- what the revised
regulations say
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Timeline

• Review meeting ? draft statement - 5 days
• Reviewee to comment 5 days
• Within 10 days therefore, signed statement
  submitted to Headteacher
• Headteacher has 10 working days from receipt of
  the statement to moderate and review and may
  instruct the reviewer to make changes

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Appeal process

• The reviewee can make an appeal against the
  contents of the statement using the schools
  appeals procedure.
• Simple disagreements should be resolved by
  discussion between the reviewer and the reviewee.

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Continuing Professional Development - what the
revised regulations say
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Continuing Professional Development - what the
revised regulations say
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Roles Responsibilities Teachers

• Play an active role in their own performance
  management and professional development including
  taking actions agreed at review meetings
• Where the role of reviewer has been delegated to
  them in accordance with the regulations, act as
  reviewers for other teachers
• Contribute to annual planning and assessment of
  other teachers where appropriate

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Roles Responsibilities - Governing Bodies

• Establish the schools performance management
  policy, monitor the operation and outcomes of
  performance management arrangements, and review
  the policy and its operation every year
• Appoint 2/3 governors to review the head
  teachers performance on an annual basis
• Use the SIP to advise appointed governors on the
  head teachers performance
• Retain a copy of the head teachers planning and
  review statement (normally the Chair)

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Roles Responsibilities- Governing Bodies
(cont.)

• Where the head teacher makes such a request, to
  action requests for evidence from the performance
  management process if the head teacher transfers
  mid-cycle
• Ensure the content of the head teachers planning
  and review statement is drafted, having regard to
  the need to be able to achieve a satisfactory
  work life balance
• Undertake action in relation to appeals in line
  with the schools policy

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Roles Responsibilities- Head Teachers

• Report annually to the governing body on
  performance management arrangements and on
  training and development needs
• Play an active part in their own performance
  management and professional development including
  taking action as agreed at review meetings
• Act as performance reviewers and, where
  appropriate, delegate the role of performance
  reviewer in its entirety
• Retain copies of all review outcomes in school
  improvement planning and ensure the school
  produces and resources an effective plan for the
  professional development of its workforce

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Roles Responsibilities- Head Teachers

• Establish a protocol for classroom observation
  for inclusion in the performance management
  policy
• Action any request from a teacher for evidence
  from performance management to be transferred if
  the teacher moves school mid-cycle
• Evaluate standards of teaching and learning and
  ensure proper standards of professional practice
  are established and maintained
• Ensure that the teachers planning and review
  statement is drafted having regard to the need
  for a satisfactory work life balance