Performance rating assessment: Lower Upper Pay Range Teachers Rating/Area Inadequate Meets minimum Achieved expectations Exceptional performance expectations with some development required Quality of Teaching At upper pay range, teachers are expected to be highly competent in all of the teachers’ standards. Highly competent is performance (Teachers’ Standards which is not only good, but also good enough to provide coaching and mentoring to other teachers, give advice to them and demonstrate to them effective teaching practice and how to make a wider contribution to the work of the service, in order to help them meet the relevant standards and develop their teaching practice. High expectations Overall performance Performance against Performance against Teachers’ Performance against Teachers Pupil progress against Teachers’ Teachers Standards Standards is consistently good or Standards is regularly outstanding Subject Knowledge Standards is inadequate or evidences inconsistency in outstanding. Best practice is and never less than good. Planning and requires improvement. enhanced practice/high embedded, consistently Enhanced practice is embedded and Teaching Will be rated here if failing levels of competence. demonstrated and cascaded. outstanding pedagogy is evident. Differentiation to evidence enhanced Practice does not Learning from professional Best practice is consistently Assessment practice (i.e. that highly consistently evidence development is evident through demonstrated and cascaded. enhanced skills and ability to pupils’ learning. Sustained progress Learning from professional
Performance rating assessment: Lower Upper Pay Range Teachers Rating/Area Inadequate Meets minimum expectations with some development required Achieved expectations Exceptional performance Quality of Teaching (Teachers’ Standards High expectations Pupil progress Subject Knowledge Planning and Teaching Differentiation Assessment At upper pay range, teachers are expected to be highly competent in all of the teachers’ standards. Highly competent is performance which is not only good, but also good enough to provide coaching and mentoring to other teachers, give advice to them and demonstrate to them effective teaching practice and how to make a wider contribution to the work of the service, in order to help them meet the relevant standards and develop their teaching practice. Overall performance against Teachers’ Standards is inadequate or requires improvement. Will be rated here if failing to evidence enhanced practice (i.e. that highly Performance against Teachers Standards evidences inconsistency in enhanced practice/high levels of competence. Practice does not consistently evidence enhanced skills and ability to Performance against Teachers’ Standards is consistently good or outstanding. Best practice is embedded, consistently demonstrated and cascaded. Learning from professional development is evident through pupils’ learning. Sustained progress Performance against Teachers Standards is regularly outstanding and never less than good. Enhanced practice is embedded and outstanding pedagogy is evident. Best practice is consistently demonstrated and cascaded. Learning from professional
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