What is performance management?

By Simran Kaur

Performance management plays a crucial role in a school setting.

Performance Management is a useful tool to ensure targets are met throughout the school year. Targets are set yearly and set out the goals for staff members to work towards. They can be personal targets as well as departmental targets.

Why manage performance?

Performance management helps direct teachers to demonstrate how they make student learning better and how they might use the targets to adapt for better learning. During performance management, staff are required to show evidence of how they met their targets and think of how they might improve and adapt in the future.

Regular review meetings should take place to ensure that staff are on track with their targets and also to check in with them. These meetings are a great opportunity to give feedback for staff to improve on and see their strengths. By identifying any weaknesses, actions can be discussed to turn them into strengths and ensure the staff member is on the right path.

Performance management plays a big part in maintained schools and in some academy schools as this is often how they assess and determine promotions and pay rises.

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