Formula for evaluating the quality of teaching
See how to develop your own formula to measure the quality of teaching in your school. Also find a research report on effective methods of teacher evaluation, and how a MAT measures teachers' performance linked to pay progression.
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Follow this process to develop your formula
You can use this method to evaluate the quality of teaching across your whole school, or for individual teachers.
- Select a range of factors
- Decide how you'll score each factor
- Give each factor a particular weighting, in the form of a number
- Calculate the score for each factor, and multiply by the weighting
- Add up all the scores to give a numerical value of the quality of teaching
Use a range of factors
There's a large number of factors you can include in your formula, such as:
- The progress made by all groups of pupils
- How teachers engage with, and ensure the progress of, ‘at risk’ groups
- The quality of classroom displays
- Pupils' behaviour in lessons
- The amount of low-level disruption in lessons
- How teachers work with other members of staff
- Lesson planning
- How teachers differentiate or personalise learning in lessons
You could use the results of pupil questionnaires or lesson observations by
Read next
- Monitoring teaching and learning: how to select and use evidence
- Improving teaching and learning: action plans
- Monitoring teaching and learning: tracking sheets
- Lesson observations: how-to guide and templates
- Topic: Lesson observations and learning walks
- How to evaluate the effectiveness of your department
Also in 'Self-evaluation guidance'
- Annual schedule for school self-evaluation (primary)
- How to evaluate the effectiveness of your department
- How to plan effective self-evaluation across your trust
- How to use a standardised school-grading system across your trust: case study
- Key performance indicators (KPIs) for schools and trusts
- Staff questionnaires: behaviour management