PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT 2008

 

PREPARING FOR PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT 2008
PRODUCING SKILLS-BASED LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT OBJECTIVES LINKED TO SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PRIORITIES; DEVELOPING UNAMBIGUOUS (AND LEGAL) PERFORMANCE PAY PROGRESSION CRITERIA FOR THE THRESHOLD AND UPS 2/3


Sample Programme
0900 Welcome Refreshments available

0930 Introductions; domestic arrangements; course aims

0940 Briefing: The Big Picture

  • 2007 Performance Management Regulations – importance of being able to show in the SEF that the objectives set relate both to individual feedback on performance against the new standards and to key school improvement priorities
  • implications of this for leadership and management performance objectives for middle and senior leaders
  • importance of having unambiguous (and legal!) performance descriptors in your pay policy – for threshold, UPS3 and leadership


1020 Group exercise attempting to develop agreed descriptors for the everyday leadership practice of satisfactory, good and outstanding middle leaders

1100 Refreshment Break

1115 Group exercise repeated for senior leaders

1140 Final agreement of the skills audits
Time for delegates to consider the leadership performance of one or two middle leaders for whom they have responsibility

1210 Identifying Strategic Priorities

  • presentation of case studies from the group
  • discussion aimed at identifying the one key development priority most likely to impact positively on outcomes
  • construction of relevant professional development programmes related to these key development priorities


1235 Wording and action planning performance objectives in 2007
regulation-friendly format using the Head Support Planning & Review Statement – practice session with tutorial support


1300 Lunch


1400 Establishing Robust Pay Progression Criteria
Briefing on the Law – What You Can and Can’t Do


1430 Exemplifying (by relation to the new national standards for teachers and the leadership standards developed this morning) the level of everyday professional practice required to…

  • pass through the threshold
  • move up to UPS 2 and 3
  • move up leadership pay scales



1530 Close; evaluations, tea and depart

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