These 6 steps enhance and streamline your existing teacher appraisal/performance management process.

1. These 6 steps enhance and streamline your existing teacher appraisal process.
* Not just for teachers - when ALL colleagues follow these steps it sustains whole school improvement.

2. Give teachers a simple framework for self-
evaluation using the DfE Teachers’ Standards.
We know that busy teachers reflect on their work and look for ways to improve - but often
struggle with complex school improvement systems. Give them the iAbacus - the deceptively
simple improvement tool with appraisal at its heart and see how it helps colleagues self-
evaluate against agreed criteria. They begin their step-by-step approach to appraisal by
describing, “This is where I am now..”
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3. Enable teachers to judge performance and
provide evidence of impact in a range of formats.
Schools are stuffed full of evidence. The tough choices are selecting the most convincing
quantitative and qualitative information. The iAbacus enables colleagues to attach spreadsheets
of data, text documents and media clips highlighting their very best evidence. This reassures
staff because judgements are based on evidence not opinion. They can now say, “Here’s
evidence of my current impact..”
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4. Support staff in the process of analysing factors
that help and hinder their progress.
When targets, or objectives, are imposed without allowing for context it causes
resentment. The iAbacus supports and motivates colleagues by asking for their analysis of
barriers to success alongside what will help. This hard thinking, prior to target setting and action
planning, allows colleagues to ask, “What is helping and hindering my progress?”
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5. Encourage teachers to set personal targets for
appraisal and plan actions to achieve them.
The success of the appraisal process is in the action not the analysis. The critical question
teachers need to ask is “So, what will I do?” . The iAbacus enables teachers to use self-
evaluation and analysis as the basis for setting personal targets with detailed actions. It helps
identify: What will be done? Who will do it? How will we measure success? When will it be
done?
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6. Provide appraisers with the time and tools they
need to collaborate effectively with appraisees.
Schools are bustling and busy but appraisers need time to implement the process efficiently and
with empathy. The iAbacus equips appraisers with everything they need to conduct consistent
and fair appraisals. This encourages collaboration and reinforces the common purpose of school
improvement. It gives teachers time to stop, reflect and ask each other, “How is it going?”
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7. Make appraisal an ongoing process with a
sustainable way of creating and sharing reports.
We all want appraisal to sustain school improvement as a meaningful, ongoing process. The
iAbacus generates ”single click” reports showing progress over time. This makes
revisiting, updating and disseminating progress easy and visually compelling. We can show
stakeholders, “Look at what we are achieving now!”
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