Australian Teachers to face annual review of performance

Andrew Stevenson:

EVERY school teacher faces an annual performance review with education ministers set today to approve a national framework for assessments to begin next year.

The actual form of the review will be left to individual schools and school systems but the ministers will commit to begin the process of reviewing the work of the country's 290,000 teachers.

Reviews will be led by the principal, a senior teacher or an outsider could be brought in. They are expected to include observation of classroom performance, student results and feedback from both parents and students.

The federal Education Minister, Peter Garrett, said the performance reviews were a ''genuinely big and important reform''.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at August 4, 2012 1:46 AM
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