For all the difficulty of doing a rigorous evaluation in order to improve teaching performance across the board, I suspect it is a whole lot easier to identify the worst teachers in the school.
The foundation and others have estimated that it could cost between 1.5% and 2% of the overall budget for teacher compensation and benefits to implement a feedback and evaluation system based on multiple measures of teaching performance.
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In what has become a polarised argument, other vital issues such as the quality of teaching or evaluations of school performance have hardly been broached.
"Strategies to improve test and examination performance, coupled with teaching that focuses heavily on preparation for the qualifications, does not equip pupils for their futures, " says the booklet destined for secondary schools.
He also said the performance management system for the teaching profession was not intended to be a bureaucratic process.
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For instance, Ms Trewhitt says that raising the quality of teaching is recognised as having a positive impact on pupil performance.
What we need, instead, are mechanisms for getting marginally better performance, year after year, from a teaching pool that remains merely adequate.
The discussion highlighted the need for both measuring performance of teachers and students but also for innovation that creates enthusiasm for teaching and learning.
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It seems very likely that allowing the principals to choose which teachers to lay off will most likely result in a better teaching staff than a layoff strategy based entirely on a criteria with no relation to performance.
Two teaching unions are joining forces to call for the government to extend the application deadline for performance-related pay.
Therefore performance-related pay is not simply "payment by results", but effective teaching resulting in real progress by pupils, related to pupils' individual circumstances.
Inspectors said the performance of the school was "declining" in comparison to other schools, and teaching in some areas was also criticised in the Estyn report.
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Thirdly, the project proposes the design and implementation of career paths oriented towards strengthening the teaching profession and attracting good candidates, requiring the adjustment of policies on remunerations and incentives, promotion, performance assessment and the assignment of roles and functions.
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