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Pay and Conditions
PERFORMANCE RELATED PAY – DEPARTMENTAL ADVICE
18 April 2013
Schools in England have been sent advice by the Department for Education along with a revised version of School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions document.
As from 1 September 2013, Schools will be able to link teachers’ pay to performance allowing them to pay good teachers more. This follows recommendations from the independent School Teachers’ Review Body, which last year called on the government to link teachers’ pay more closely to their performance. By this September every school will need to have revised its pay and appraisal policies setting out how pay progression will in future be linked to a teacher’s performance. The first performance-linked pay increases will be made from September 2014. The new arrangements provide increased flexibility for schools to develop pay policies tailored to their particular needs. These freedoms will support heads in attracting teachers in specific subjects based on their school’s needs. It will also help schools across the country recruit and retain excellent teachers.
The Departmental Advice highlights factors schools could consider when assessing teachers’ performance. This includes a teacher’s:
impact on pupil progress
impact on wider outcomes for pupils
contribution to improvements in other areas (eg pupils’ behaviour or lesson planning) professional and career development wider contribution to the work of the school, for instance their involvement in school business outside the classroom
Schools could consider evidence from a range of sources, including self-assessment, lesson observations, and the views of other teachers and of parents and pupils.
It is up to each school to decide how best to implement new pay arrangements – and each school must make the link between pay and performance clear.
Heads and school leaders are responsible for developing arrangements for performance- linked pay. Governing bodies will ensure schools adopt pay policies which clearly set out arrangements for linking appraisals to pay progression. School leaders will be responsible for explaining to teachers how appraisal outcomes lead to pay decisions. A Department for Education spokesperson said: “It is vital that schools can recruit and reward the best teachers. The advice will help schools to review their pay policies and put in place arrangements that enable them to pay the best teachers more.”
The revised version of School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions document is available at the website for the Department for Education.
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