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Annual performance management/appraisal
Requirements for a Principal's Appraisal [.pdf]
Planning for participants in the principal's appraisal [download the .doc]
The Principal Performance Agreement template examples for primary, area and secondary school principals have been developed in consultation with education sector group representatives. These are designed as examples that illustrate how performance agreement and summary report requirements can be recorded. Please feel free to amend the template to reflect your processes as they meet the requirements. Guidelines to support your use and show how to align the Standards for the Teaching Profession with the Professional Standards are included. This template is soon to be updated to reflect the new standards.
Principal Performance Agreement [download the .doc]
Guide for Primary Principals [download the .doc]
Guide for Area and Secondary Principals [download the .doc]
Appraisal Conceptual Framework/He Kete Whakatipu Ngaio Tangata - a webinar. This webinar is also available in New Zealand Sign Language. This webinar refers to the Open to Learning™ approach. Training by accredited facilitators can be accessed via Jacqui Patuawa at Auckland Uniservices.
Coherence diagram [download the .doc] - This diagram illustrates a relationship between appraisal and attestation/assessment within a single process.
Tapasā
The Tapasā framework will help teachers to contextualise quality teaching and learning by providing a Pacific lens to the Standards for the Teaching Profession. Teachers interpret and refine their own understandings of what each of the standards looks like in their setting. For many teachers in Aotearoa New Zealand, Tapasā will be a key resource for thinking about teachers’ practice and quality learning for Pacific learners.
Tātaiako
Tātaiako will be revised to reflect the Standards for the Teaching Profession, however it is still a valuable resource in its current form. It is a lens through which to view and inform your practice across all of the Standards. The Standards, like the Tātaiako cultural competencies, are holistic and the elaborations provide more information about practices that reflect them. As you consider what the Standards look like in your setting, Tātaiako continues to provide examples of practice and outcomes.
Goals and inquiry
It is not a Council requirement to have inquiry as the centrepiece of your appraisal system. These sections of the website contain resources about inquiry, to illustrate what the approach could look like if you decide to use inquiry in that way. However, you may continue to centre your system (and evidence) around the six standards or around a goal or goals. The document Putting together your evidence folder or portfolio provides more information about these options.
Setting up objectives [download the .doc]
Using a leadership inquiry for principal appraisal - a short video
Professional inquiry as part of appraisal - a webinar
Webinar resource book [download the .doc]
Example objective recording using Performance Agreement Template [download the .doc]
Leadership BES School Leadershop Cases (Ministry of Education, 2009) - This reference can help you think about worthy leadership goals.
When thinking about the focus of an inquiry or making decisions about the progress, consider these resources.
Ka Hikitia [.pdf]
Pasifika Education [.pdf]
Ontario Leadership Strategy: Five Core Capacities of Effective Leaders
Spiral of inquiry: leaders leading learning
Evidence curated
Putting together your evidence folder or portfolio [.pdf]
Guidelines for effective observations
A school goal as inquiry-using evidence - a webinar
Webinar resource book [download the .doc]
Using student voice in principal and teacher appraisal - a video
Collaborative sense making
This section recognises the importance of formal and informal conversation about practice and outcomes with your board chair and your appraiser
Talking about appraisal with your board chair - a webinar
Webinar resource book [download the .doc]
The Education Review Office documents provide useful discussion starters for ongoing conversations about inquiry, evaluation and appraisal
Education Review Office: Effective School Evaluation (p. 11-20)
21 School Evaluation Indicators (p. 19-25)
The Principal: Three Keys to Maximigins Impact. (Fullan, M) Jossey - Bass 2014 [.pdf]
To help you think about leading learning in your setting
Coherence: Putting your inner drive into overdrive (Fullan, 2015) [.pdf]
Monograph (Fullan, 2015) [.pdf]
Appraisal discussion
Example objective recording using Performance Agreement Template [download the .doc]
Appraisal discussion guide - what I might talk with my appraiser about
Appraisal report
At the end of the Performance Agreement plan in the first section there is a template for the Principal’s annual summary report. Alternatively the model below, with one example completed may be preferred.