This is the second of two post sharing extracts from my ILM Unit Coaching and Mentoring Unit 500 submission. Section 1.3 requires candidates to present “the business rationale for either coaching or mentoring.” With Performance Management deadlines looming, I was …
With October looming, I am back challenging performance review or appraisal (often referenced as performance management) and particularly the use of “teacher ratings.” It is nearly as preposterous as presenting the percentage of “Outstanding lessons?” It comes the day after …
Two weeks in and school is starting to find a rhythm. One of the few things new staff can be grateful for is, that for the most part, they will have already agreed their contractual terms and therefore there is no …
Cards on the table. I am highly critical of triennial performance reviews, performance management, of any flavour that casts dark skies over many schools up and down the country. I have been banging my very little drum, as loudly as I …
The interim review phase of leadership reminded me to search out a bookmarked social media post from Thomas Rogers. Targets (I implore you to not use that term “aims / objectives”) were set back in October. We are approaching internal and external assessments and …
I will not be letting the issues surrounding Performance Related Pay go unchallenged. Not now, not tomorrow. Only when the horrors, frailties, flaws and failings of PRP within education are accepted and replaced by more developmental appraisal approaches will I …
We are right back at the a-h guilty list of graded lesson observation and Performance Review questions. Well almost. We pick up at c). c) what might replace graded lesson observations and d) whether or not lesson observations should be a part of Performance Review (“graded” …
With graded lesson observations in the dock, accused of being wholly ‘unreliable,’ the jury’s verdict a for gone conclusion, were left waiting for the judge’s sentence. Meanwhile, I was a) reflecting on my professional experience of graded lesson observations, b) …
