This research-based book offers practical guidance on how to go about performance management. Based on experience of working with schools and running courses, and using the latest research on business strategies appropriate for education, it: o looks at what performance management means in practice o offers advice on how to go about monitoring o explains how to use data from pupil assessments o suggests ways to judge the effectiveness of teaching through analysing children's work o gives guidance on monitoring planning, assessment and observing lessons o proposes how to 1853467693reas for development, set objectives and draw up action plans o contains useful photocopiable formats o uses case study material to illustrate potential problems and good practice Throughout, the purpose is to help schools and teachers to be more effective.
| Preface |
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| Reference documents |
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viii | |
| Acknowledgements |
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ix | |
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Performance management - an overview |
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1 | (13) |
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Criteria for judging teaching |
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14 | (12) |
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26 | (10) |
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Analysing data on pupil performance |
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36 | (13) |
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49 | (25) |
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74 | (12) |
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Monitoring children's work and teachers' assessment |
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86 | (15) |
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Setting and reviewing objectives |
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101 | (17) |
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Preparing to cross the threshold |
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118 | (5) |
| Appendix Standards for the award of Qualified Teacher Status (DfEE Circular 4/98) |
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123 | (8) |
| Bibliography |
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131 | (3) |
| Index |
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134 | |
Sara Bubb runs courses on monitoring teaching and induction in LEAs and at the University of London Institute of Education, where she lectures in primary education and is co-director of the DfEE research project on the effectiveness of statutory induction. She writes for the TES and educational websites. She is also an OFSTED inspector, threshold assessor and external assessor for the Graduate and Registered Teacher Programme. Pauline Hoare has a wide experience of business techniques gathered during ten years in senior management in the electronics industry. She is an experienced primary head teacher, was until recently a lecturer in education at the Institute of Education, and is currently an LEA inspector with responsibility for early years. She also works with schools through INSET, threshold assessment, as an external adviser to governing bodies and as an OFSTED inspector.
