Scottish Government

Professional Review and Development 2002

CHECKLIST

Professional Review and Development:

• aims to improve the professional knowledge, skills and confidence of teachers and enhance school effectiveness;
• celebrates success, recognises good performance and makes clear to teachers that they are valued and appreciated;
• identifies and provides for the professional development needs of teachers and consequently assists the school to take forward the development plan;
• is integrated with the existing arrangements for school development planning;
• bases annual review of teachers' work on self-evaluation, personal reflection and achievement of the previous CPD plan, while taking account of wider and longer-term professional development issues;
• recognises the strengths and needs of individual teachers and their priorities for professional development;
• is straightforward and simple and links into the regular monitoring and evaluation of the work of the school;
• keeps records to a minimum, while ensuring that:
• the teacher has a clear set of agreed development objectives;
• agreed development objectives and activities are recorded;
• the professional development co-ordinator has an overview of the implications individual needs might have for the overall planning process;
• includes all teachers;
• ensures that each teacher is given annual feedback;
• ensures that reviewees and reviewers are well prepared for the professional review and development process by:
• setting and agreeing development objectives;
• setting and agreeing development activities; and
• monitoring and supporting progress.
• includes evaluating the process; and
• accommodates unanticipated development objectives and related activities as they arise through the year.