Topic: Staff Appraisal Process and Guidelines

Policy No: E2

Date for Review: 2019

The St Dominic’s School appraisal process is based on the Performance and Development Cycle
articulated in the AITSL Australian Teacher Performance and Development Framework -
https://bit.ly/2iUdeSd, and is aligned with both the AITSL Standards for Teachers and the school’s
improvement plans. It is an opportunity for teachers to review and refine their practice and find
areas for personal and professional growth.

AITSL Australian Teacher Performance and Development Framework, August 2012

At St Dominic’s School, we believe that our appraisal process should be:

! Useful to teachers (reflecting the needs of teachers)

! A formative, collaborative and reflective process
! Part of an open, honest and professional conversation about how we can improve our
practice both individually and as a whole school.

Process and Timeline

Term 3

• As a guide, complete the AITSL Teacher Self-Assessment Tool - http://bit.ly/2rt5eXT (if not
completed in 2017)

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 • Using the feedback received from the AITSL Self-Assessment Tool, your knowledge of our
school improvement priorities and your own identified areas for growth, identify a growth area
in which you would like to focus during the second half of 2018.
• Complete the individual Future Focus Reflection Form by clicking on the link emailed to you.
This document is shared with the principal.
• Video a lesson or part of a lesson that will enable you to critically reflect on your identified
growth area.
• Critically review the video and address areas of strength and areas for growth.
• At the PLC Meeting in Week 8 present to a colleague the context of your lesson and the
specific growth area you have identified. You may wish to show the video to your colleague
and then discuss your reflections, or alternatively outline the lesson and discuss your
reflection.
• Together with your colleague discuss the strengths and areas for growth of each lesson and
professionally support one another to establish strategies to assist you to grow in your chosen
area.
• During Term 3, the principal will conduct an instructional walk through your classroom
focusing on asking the students the following five questions:
o What are you learning?
o How are you doing?
o How do you know?
o How can you improve?
o Where do you go for help?

Term 4

• In Week 2 or 3, make an appointment with the principal to discuss how you are progressing
with your identified area of growth. Feedback from the principal visit in Term 3 will be
provided at this meeting, if not prior.
• At an assigned PLC Meeting towards the end of term, staff share an overview of how they
program, plan lessons for the week and record assessment data. As a cluster discuss how
we each go about programming, how it links to our daily work pads and then to our
assessment records. The focus will be on what we as a school feel should be included in
each of these documents.

Whole School Professional Development in 2018

Term 1

• Keeping Safe: Child Protection Curriculum (New Staff)

• Six Traits of Writing

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Term 2

• Brightpath
• Mathematics (K-2)
• Words Their Way (3-6)

Term 4

• TBC

Appendix

Australian Teacher Performance and Development Framework - https://bit.ly/2iUdeSd

AITSL Teacher Self-Assessment Tool - http://bit.ly/2rt5eXT
Future Focus Reflection Form - http://bit.ly/2quOxNT
Growth Questions - http://bit.ly/2uxqYpv

Review History

Created – 2017
Reviewed – 2018

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