Ensure that your lesson observation protocols marry up to your management and whole-school reporting systems whilst supporting and enhancing your school culture.
Steps to successfully enhance teacher effectiveness:
Identify why lesson grading does not work
Explore alternative models to gauge teacher effectiveness
Develop an internal system that enhances effectiveness whilst reducing anxiety
Embed a formative approach to teacher development that moves away from high-stakes observation, to coaching, instructional feedback and peer observation.
Move beyond lesson grades and the idea of progress within a lessons, to look at a defensible model of teacher effectiveness and how we can take this whole-school.