An Introduction to Teacher Appraisal: A Professional Development Approach (School development)

Appraisal is increasingly becoming a feature of teachers' professional lives. The purpose of this book is to assist all those involved in appraisal in developing and running the process. The authors provide advice based on a review of the appraisal literature, on their findings as members of the team evaluating the School Teacher Appraisal Pilot Study of 1987/9 and on their work with teachers in developing schemes for appraisal. Each chapter of the book is devoted to an aspect of the appraisal process, and contains a survey of experience from the literature and the pilot study, from which key principles of guidance and advice are derived.