Transcript TEACHER MENTAL HEATLH - National Union of Teachers

Winning on Performance
Management and Observation
Division Secretaries’ Briefing
Wales and England
• Different approaches from governments
• NUT common approach – professional
development, workload protections
• Limits to observations
• Separation of appraisal and capability
procedures
• Supporting teachers, promoting learning
England
• Removal of all national limits to classroom
observation
• Appraisal and capability procedures together
• Limited informal stage of capability procedure
only within appraisal
• Performance to be assessed against relevant
professional standards (rather than them being a
‘backdrop’ to the process)
• No requirement to consult on appraisal policies,
merely ‘good practice’
Wales
• LA representative on head appraisal
panel?
• closer link with professional standards?
• used for pay progression?
• practice review portfolio?
• Available to Estyn?
Winning support for …
• professional development for real
improvements in learning
• procedural fairness and best practice
• minimising workload
• exposing and outlawing discrimination
Union model appraisal policy
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appraisal for professional development
separation of appraisal and capability
fair process for concerns
informal stage in capability procedure
Union observations protocol
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3 hours limit per year
Normally once a year, up to 60 mins
Notice of drop-ins
Observations for multiple purposes
Team teaching/ peer observations
Government changestimeline
England
January - model policy
published
September – removal of 3
hour protection
This term and next –
schools and LAs
considering whether to
change policies
Wales
Sept 2011 – consultation on
regulations closed
December 2011 – new
regulations laid
Jan/Feb 2012 – transitional
arrangements due to
begin?
WORKING TOGETHER
- national campaign taken forward in every
school
-winning support from other organisations
- maintaining existing provisions where
acceptable
- winning adoption of union models
- winning recommendation by LAs
WORKING TOGETHER
Jan/Feb – seeking support from teacher
orgs and others
Feb – finalise all model procedures
Late Feb/ March – regional/Wales briefings
and planning meetings
March onwards – WINNING ON
APPRAISAL AND CAPABILITY IN
SCHOOLS AND LAs!