Introduction

The Development Module caters for the development of staff through the setting up of staff appraisal criteria, the printing of appraisal sheets and the recording of appraisal results.

Features

• Set up staff appraisal criteria
• Appraise staff

Contents

The Development Module consists of the following:

Staff Appraisal Criteria

Appraising Staff

Staff Appraisal Criteria

Part of the Development Module is the development of staff through assessments. The idea, of course, is to assess staff in all relevant areas and take appropriate action based on the assessments. One such action may be staff training programmes. In business terms, these assessments are usually called Performance Appraisals. TS School however, simply refers to them as Staff Appraisals, since anything about the staff member can be assessed – not just performance.

Before staff members can be assessed, the assessment criteria need to first be set up. This is done in the Staff Appraisal Criteria screen. The following is required:

• Name – The name of the appraisal criterion (e.g. Punctuality).
• Desc – An apt description (eg. the ability to consistantly arrive on time)
• Weight – How important the criterion is (e.g. 50).

• Staff Types - Indicate which types of staff the criterion applies to. Examples: Teaching Skills might only apply to Educators. Class/Team Attention might apply only to Educators and Coaches. People Skills might pertain to all staff types. Appraisal criteria are based on the type of staff member. The criteria used to assess a grounds worker, for example, will be quite different from the criteria used to assess an educator. If a staff member is of more than one type, the staff member needs to be assessed on all the criteria for each type. The criteria are not merged into a single list because the staff member may well behave differently under different circumstances. For example, a staff member that is both an educator and a coach might, for whatever reason, be more punctual when reporting to class to teach than when reporting to the sports field to coach. So if punctuality is a criterion for both types of staff member, the question needs to be asked for each type so that different values can be entered.

Appraising Staff

The Appraisal Sheet - The staff appraisal sheet is a printout of all the criteria against which to appraise a particular type of staff member as set up in the Staff Appraisal Criteria screen. For example, if the staff member is an educator, the staff member will be appraised on the criteria that assess educators.

The appraisal sheet is only needed if the person doing the appraisal actually needs to go with the sheet and sit in on a session to do an evaluation. Examples might be when a staff member is teaching or coaching. Typically though, the appraisal sheet is not required since the person doing the assessment already has an accurate idea of how the member has performed.

If the person doing the appraisal has to go and sit in on more than one type of evaluation session (because the staff member is of more than one type) then, then each appraisal sheet per staff type is required. For example, if a staff member is an educator and a coach, the person doing the assessment will first print out the Educator assessment sheet and use it to assess the staff member’s teaching skills. Then the Coach assessment sheet also needs to be printed so that the same staff member can also be assessed on coaching skills. The assessment sheet serves both as a hard-copy as well as the source from which to enter the results.

The Staff Appraisal Screen

The Staff Appraisals screen is used to enter all the results of staff appraisals.

Header:

• Name – The name of the appraisal (e.g. Coach 2005).
• Description – The description of the appraisal (e.g. General coaching assessment).
• Date – The date of the assessment
• Setting – The particular area of assessment (e.g. if you are assessing a coach, you would indicate the sport, age group and sporting level).
• Overall Mark – The overall mark of the appraisal.
• Overall Comments – Comments that sum up the appraisal and any needed course of action.

Detail:

• Criterion – The criterion being assessed (e.g. Punctuality). For example, how punctual is this coach when reporting to basketball practice.
• Description – The description of the criterion (so that you its is clear exactly what is being assessed).
• Weight – The importance of the criterion.
• Comments – Any pertinent comments that explain the mark (e.g. Always late for basketball practice because coach has to first pick his daughter up from school. Not an issue at this stage because the team is responsible enough to take this time to do warm exercises).