Appraisal Where You Should Be

Appraisal Steps...
This is a good time of the year to be making sure that you're on track with you own development and appraisal.  You should have been taking the time to fill in the "Profile Page".

Here you can find a place to record all the core part of your role here at Waihi College.  There are links to the professional standards, registered teacher criteria and cultural competencies'.  There is also a descriptor of your job description(s). 

You can find lots of the information (MOE #'s etc) on your payslip from Novopay. 

Inserting a optional photo is just a cut and paste. 


Talking with Your Appraiser & PLC
At this stage you should have made initial contact with at least two key people (hopefully three).  They are one your appraiser (see the list under the "Appraisal Grid" page in the section titled "Waihi References") and the other is a colleague that you feel you can have meaningful conversations with about your goals and development this year. 


First Meeting with Appraiser
There are two pages that you should have filled in prior to this meeting.  They’re under the headings of “Preparation for Initial” and “Goal Setting”. 

You will need about 20 minutes to fill these in.  Be expecting that your Appraiser should be asking you good positive questions about your goals.   The purpose is to have you come out of your comfort zone so that you’re learning.  As such the actual goals you settle upon should be 80% from you and 20% influence (give or take) from your Appraiser. 

Having input from your Professional Learning Colleague/Community is vital at this stage.  It is about creating degrees of accountability.  Ultimately we are accountable to ourselves (and this is reflected in the 12RTC’s when we register ourselves as professional educators)… but having an Appraiser and PLC talking with us should keep our goals relevant and real. 

Keeping Track

Remember to keep a record of your meetings.  Make efforts to summarise the general consensus of the discussion.  We need to be highly reflective in our practice… it is better if you have some challenge in your conversations as this leads to deeper reflection.  But always keep in mind that we must maintain those high level trust relationships.    


Beginning Your Inquiry

The goals that you’ve set – particularly your goal focussed on students achievement in you classroom.  This (these) will be the primary basis for establishing your ‘Teaching as Inquiry’ cycle this year.  You can read about this in the sections marked… “Inquiry Plan Template” and “Teaching as Inquiry”.  I’ll be posting on this shortly (and some morning PD sessions too).