We offer an objective and constructive teacher evaluation to schools

Why pay for an outside provider of Teacher evaluation?

This is a new process that is being taken on, reluctantly in many cases, by schools. Most schools will benefit if their first experience of the process is objective and contains a strong training element for everybody involved. This is of particular benefit when pupil-
management issues are of concern.

We are very worried that evaluation will be linked to 'payment by results' do you just evaluate and not look at this?

Schools have for years allocated 'posts of responsibility' selectively to staff. Most of us have got used to this. The problem is that now the extra pay seems to be available for being judged a 'good' teacher. Schools need to have an open policy that joins seamlessly from previous practice and addresses doubts about subjective decision making. We will show you that their need not be a radical change from previous practice.

What is the Focus for the evaluation?

We teach well - or not so well - because of the skills we use balanced against the relative difficulty of the class we are teaching. The evaluator has to have the ability to judge the difficulty of classes being taught - this only comes from hundreds of observations of lessons. Our evaluations are always positive (we know how quickly teachers can change classroom events with effective advice) and are always constructive.

Do you provide INSET?

Yes, as with the 'changing school behaviour' inset, this is usually designed for the specific school but broadly falls into the modules