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How to evaluate the effectiveness of your department
Read on for details of 8 key actions to take when evaluating your subject department, featuring tips from our experts on analysing results, conducting pupil voice surveys and creating an action plan.
Contents
- Analyse and evaluate results
- Make use of pupil voice
- Scrutinise pupils' work
- Focus on your subject's particular features
- Observe teaching and learning
- Evaluate the impact of your leadership
- Write a departmental self-evaluation form
- Create a departmental action plan
- Annual schedule for school self-evaluation (primary)
- Annual schedule for school self-evaluation (secondary)
- Behaviour questionnaires for staff
- Demonstrating the impact of the school business manager
- Evaluating overall effectiveness in a day
- Formula for evaluating the quality of teaching
- Key performance indicators (KPIs) for schools
- PESTLE and SWOT analyses: guidance and examples
- Sample self-evaluation summary: EYFS provision
- Self-evaluation: guidance for special schools
- Self-evaluation: sixth form
- Staff questionnaires: strengths and weaknesses of the school
- Tips for writing your school self-evaluation form (SEF)
- Tracking progress against school improvement targets
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