Principal Appraisal is a new paradigm involving reconception of

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What is principal appraisal?
Robins Views on Principal Appraisal

•  Principal Appraisal is a new paradigm involving
  re-conception of
• School leadership leadership styles
  qualities in the present context
• Relationship between the leader and
  his/her followers
• Schools cultural organizational change
• Principal appraisal is never an isolated,
  one-off, administrative act.
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Why principal appraisal ?
Robins Views on Principal Appraisal

• Principal Accountability
• School Improvement
• Modeling learning critical self-evaluation
• Developing other school leaders

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What to appraise ?
Robins Views on Principal Appraisal

• Aspects of principalship
• Administrative leadership school operations
  resource management
• Instructional leadership curriculum
  development, teaching learning in school
• Cultural leadership school values ethos
• Political leadership building ties
  networks (internal external)

(References NAFKhks 6 core areas of
principal-ship QAIs 4 domains)
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How to do it ?
Robins Views on Principal Appraisal

• TTCs Experience (one possibility)
• Design the instruments
• Present versions questionnaires in English /
  Chinese the Stop, Continue, Start Form
  students questionnaire
• Set up a committee
• From the Teacher Appraisal System Preparatory
  Committee to the Staff Appraisal Committee
• 3. Wrote up a performance pledge
• My Covenant What I am doing and will do for
  our teachers paradox
• 4. Schedule the appraisals ( in the schools
  Operations File)
• -Self-appraisal (year round)
• -Appraisal by others (year end)

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Robins Views on Principal Appraisal

• 5. Conduct the appraisals
• -Anonymous Independent
• -All teaching staff/students participating
• 6. Doing the Statistics Analysis
• - By the committee
• - Clerical hardware support
• 7. Reporting to the teaching staff
• - At the first staff meeting
• - Verbal written reports
• - Reports not requested by the SMC at present
• 8. Planning actions to improve
• - Ideas made known to the staff
• 9. Evaluating the outcomes of the actions
• - One way comparing the appraisal results of
  different years
• - Continuous self-evaluation listening to
  informal comments and feedback from colleagues
  peers

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Some issues to ponder
Robins Views on Principal Appraisal

• Sincerity, Magnanimity, Clear-mindedness
  Risk-taking
• Appraisal for the sake of professional school
  improvements
• Principal Appraisal part and parcel of the
  schools cultural change
• Think big, start small !