TEACHER PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL (TPA): ENCOURAGE PROFESSIONAL LEARNING AND GROWTH*

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High quality teaching is essential to improving student outcomes and reducing gaps in student achievement. The Teacher Performance Appraisal System provides teachers with meaningful appraisals that encourage professional learning and growth. The process is designed to foster teacher development and identify opportunities for additional support where required. By helping teachers achieve their full potential, the performance appraisal process represents one element of vision of achieving high levels of student performance.The TPA is an integral part of a continuum of professional learning that supports effective teaching, learning, and assessment practices by building on and complementing previous learning in pre-service teacher education programs and the New Teacher Induction Program (NTIP), as well as learning acquired throughout each individual’s teaching career.The TPA system helps strengthen schools as learning communities where teachers have the chance to engage in professional exchanges and collaborative inquiries that foster continuous growth and development. Professional dialogue and collaboration are essential to the creation and maintenance of a healthy school culture. An appraisal system in which both teachers and principals are actively engaged provides a framework for assessing teachers’ practices in a way that meets their professional learning needs.The TPA system engages principals and teachers in professional dialogue that deepens their understanding of what it means to be a teacher, as reflected in the Standards of Practice for the Teaching Profession.

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