How can we ensure that performance management supports your staff’s professional learning? Bridget Clay offers some advice

How often do you find yourself referring back to your appraisal meeting or performance management targets? Performance management and appraisal should form a key part of any organisation’s professional learning and development, but sometimes annual or biannual meetings can feel quite far removed from the other development processes within the school.

The Teacher Development Trust Network works closely with schools to support professional learning and it is not unusual for us to see staff who do not see performance management as part of CPD.

Targets that might be set in a hurry, or feel quite irrelevant to day-to-day practice can prevent performance management and CPD reinforcing each other. So how can you ensure that performance management processes contribute to and support professional learning?

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