Download or read book Performance Management for School Improvement written by Jeff Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recently introduced Performance Management (PM) arrangements for headteachers and teachers will replace the existing appraisal systems for schools in England. The introduction of PM places a significant responsibility upon governors strategically, and upon senior and middle managers operationally. This is a manual for middle managers and head teachers in secondary schools. It offers support and guidance on the new performance management legislation, the practical issues surrounding its introduction and strategies for successful implementation. The book will include sections on how to integrate PM into the school's other management processes, what roles and responsibilities need to be carried out, and managing the performance of teachers and headteachers. It will also cover the appraisal cycle, setting objectives, classroom observation, and selecting and appointing team leaders. The book also discussed auditing, monitoring, evaluating and reporting.
Download or read book Performance Management in Education written by Pauline Smith and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2002-06-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of some of the key issues in developing professional performance and examines critically some of the key strategies that can be used to enhance professional performance.
Download or read book Performance Management written by Sara Bubb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Performance Management in Schools written by Susan Tranter and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2006 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance Management in Schools is a practical 'how to' guide on the essential elements involved in successful performance management for school improvement. It is written for all those with line management responsibility in schools and unlike existing books on the market, deals with the nuts and bolts of a performance management system, including practical tips on how to manage the process, case studies that will identify possible problems, suggested solutions to help overcome these problems and sample documents (or paperwork) that can be customised to suit an individual school.
Download or read book Better Schools Better Teachers Better Results written by Vic Zbar and published by Acer Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance management is an essential element of any school's strategy to build and maintain a strong and vibrant professional culture that supports high quality teaching and high quality learning. Better Schools, Better Teachers, Better Results specifically examines the how of performance management in schools. This book is a practical guide for principals, team leaders and teachers in schools. It sets out a performance management process appropriate for a future-oriented teaching profession, emphasizing the importance of self-management, continuing professional development and lifelong self-directed improvement. Better Schools, Better Teachers, Better Results shows how to provide objective and constructive feedback on teacher performance by highlighting areas of strength on which to build, and identifying shortcomings to be redressed through targeted training and other developmental support.
Download or read book Getting the Best Out of Performance Management in Your School written by Chris Baker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tried-and-tested by specialist educational consultants Hay Management Consultants, this volume will help head teachers and subject leaders make the most out of performance management in their schools. The government's insistence that each school in England (whether primary or secondary) implements a performance management system has lead schools to see this imposition as yet another bureaucratic chore. This volume shows how performance management can be turned to a school's advantage to improve teaching and school performance. Highly practical in tone, the book shows how schools can turn a government imposition into an opportunity for realistic and tangible improvement.
Download or read book Performance Management in Schools written by John West-Burnham and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance Management in Schools provides reassurance and support to all those responsible for performance management; it serves as a resource for those studying the many aspects of school improvement and also contributes to the debate on how best to sustain the professionalism and commitment of teachers.
Download or read book Managing Teacher Appraisal and Performance written by Carol Cardno and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection brings together the latest thinking on appraisal in schools, from both the UK and overseas, and places it directly in the context of school management.
Download or read book The Performing School written by Dennis Gleeson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This specially commissioned collection of perspectives offers an analysis of the new organisation of the teaching profession - reconstructed around the notion of performance and the implications of a performance culture. The Performing School examines the roots, directions and implications of the new structure by drawing together insights from policy, research and practice at this time of rapid change and debate. This unique volume addresses three interconnected issues of modernisation and education: *what is the background to and significance of performance management in modernising schools and teachers at the present time? *what are the likely future effects of a performance culture on teaching, learning and schooling? *what will it take to ensure that performance management improves pedagogy and professionality beyond the narrow confines of performativity, managerialism and market reform in education?
Download or read book Performance Management for School Improvement written by Jeff Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recently introduced Performance Management (PM) arrangements for headteachers and teachers will replace the existing appraisal systems for schools in England. The introduction of PM places a significant responsibility upon governors strategically, and upon senior and middle managers operationally. This is a manual for middle managers and head teachers in secondary schools. It offers support and guidance on the new performance management legislation, the practical issues surrounding its introduction and strategies for successful implementation. The book will include sections on how to integrate PM into the school's other management processes, what roles and responsibilities need to be carried out, and managing the performance of teachers and headteachers. It will also cover the appraisal cycle, setting objectives, classroom observation, and selecting and appointing team leaders. The book also discussed auditing, monitoring, evaluating and reporting.
Download or read book Implementing Performance Management written by Joan Dean and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for headteachers, senior and middle managers in both primary and secondary schools, and all teachers involved in the performance management process. It sets out the aims and objectives of the system, and offers sensible, practical advice to help make performance management work effectively in schools. Case studies are used to illustrate the processes involved in performance management, and each chapter ends with suggestions for staff discussions, looking at the common concerns and issues that arise. Joan Dean has taught in primary, secondary and further education, and has held two headships. She has also been a primary schools adviser and a chief inspector, and has published more than thirty books on education. In 1980, she was awarded the OBE for services to education.
Download or read book Performance Management in Education written by Jenny Reeves and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2002-05-10 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `This book makes an important contribution to the debate on how school and individual performance may be enhanced. It would be of value to any teachers, education manager or academic who is interested in the issues of improvement in school performance′- Scottish Educational Review `....there is much to commend this book. The diagrams are very clear and `lift′ the text so that creative thought, rather than mere comprehension, becomes possible′ - Nurturing Potential Managing the performance of staff has become a key concern in education. It is a controversial area with a number of approaches based on very different assumptions. This book provides an overview of some of the key issues in developing professional performance and examines critically some of the strategies that can be used to enhance it. - The first section of the book sets out the development of performance management. - The second section deals with theoretical issues. - The third section adopts a case study approach mapping out and critiquing a range of strategies that can be used to improve performance. - Current issues such as work-based learning, performance related pay, the assessment of performance and the use of standards are examined. Performance Management in Education is a valuable resource for practitioners, those involved in professional development, and academics in the field of school leadership and administration.
Download or read book Making Schools Work written by Eric A. Hanushek and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educational reform is a big business in the United States. Parents, educators, and policymakers generally agree that something must be done to improve schools, but the consensus ends there. The myriad of reform documents and policy discussions that have appeared over the past decade have not helped to pinpoint exactly what should be done. The case for investment in education is an economic one: schooling improves the productivity and earnings of individuals and promotes stronger economic growth and better functioning of society. Recent trends in schooling have, however, lessened the value of society's investments as costs have risen dramatically while student performance has stayed flat or even fallen. The task is to improve performance while controlling costs. This book is the culmination of extensive discussions among a panel of economists led by Eric Hanushek. They conclude that economic considerations have been entirely absent from the development of educational policies and that economic reality is sorely needed in discussions of new policies. The book outlines an improvement plan that emphasizes changing incentives in schools and gathering information about effective approaches. Available research and analysis demonstrates that current central decisionmaking has worked poorly. Concentrating on inputs such as pupil-teacher ratios or teacher graduate degrees appears quite inferior to systems that directly reward performance. Nonetheless, since experience with such alternatives is very limited, a program of extensive evaluation appears to be in order. Attempts to institute radical change on the basis of currently available information involve substantial risks of failure. Many people today find proposals such as charter schools, expanded use of merit pay, or educational vouchers to be appealing. Yet there is little evidence of their effectiveness, and widespread adoption of these proposals is sure to run into substantial problems of im
Download or read book Management Skills in Schools written by Jeff Jones and published by Paul Chapman Educational Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `This is a useful book and well written reflecting the author's considerable experience in the field' - National School Improvement Network News `Management Skills in Schools is a terrific digest of many important issues, built around a clear structure that helps the reader absorb information quickly. For the sheers scale of the references to educational gurus, it's worth the cover price: here is everything you need to quote' - Geoff Barton, Friday Magazine, Times Educational Supplement `This book provides an invaluable resource for everyone who is concerned with leadership and management in schools. As well as dealing with key issues and concepts it gives practical advice on strategies and techniques which can be deployed. It will enhance and complement existing skills as well as importing new ideas which will provide professional stimulus for the reader' - Sir Geoff Hampton, Dean of Education, Director of the Midlands Leadership Centre, University of Wolverhampton `For the discerning leader wanting to develop their personal management skills this is a "must have" resource. Whether working through Personal Management Skills independently or used as a professional development tool with a group of middle managers in a school this book will make a difference to how leaders work in schools' - Coleen R Jackson, Director, Roehampton Education Leadership Centre University of Surrey Roehampton `This is a timely collection of resources for those in middle management positions in schools. It brings together ideas on self management in addition to a comprehensive collection of materials on leading teams of staff. Particularly noteworthy are the sections on strategic decision making, action research in school improvement, and dealing effectively with conflict' - Brian Fidler, Professor of Education Management, The University of Reading Team leadership is vital element of school success, whether at the level of department, the curriculum area, the key stage, the phase, or in relation to pastoral and leadership teams. The Team leader must be skillful in creating cultures of success, and personal management skills are at the heart of getting the best from team members. In this book Jeff Jones shows how managers in education can contribute to school improvement, and focuses on the essential personal and practical management skills needed to instill a positive team culture, and support colleagues effectively. This book is an essential resource for those who lead and manage teams, at all levels within schools. Dr Jeff Jones has been a senior consultant and head of training and consultancy unit at the Centre for British Teachers CfBT in Reading since 1998, and is the well known author of such books as Monitoring and Evaluation for School Improvement, (2000), and Performance Management for School Improvement (2001)
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Download or read book Headteacher Appraisal written by C. Eric Spear and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide to the principles and practices of headteacher appraisal, this text recommends those aspects which are most successful in supporting professional development, and in enhancing performance and effectiveness. It is written by experts, including head teachers and those who appraise them, and is endorsed by the National Association of Head Teachers. Headteacher appraisal helps assess the performance of head teachers, direct their efforts, and give them feedback and guidance. Through this process it affects the direction of the whole school and its staff.
Download or read book Effective School Management written by K.B. Everard and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2004-05-26 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This popular book has been thoroughly updated for its fourth edition, and is even more directed towards the leadership demands on managers, both within the school and in its community setting.