Standards

Professional standards for teachers

The current professional standards for teachers are available on the TDA website.

The professional standards cover the following career stages:
Q - qualified teacher status
C - core standards for main scale teachers who have successfully
completed their induction
P - post-threshold teachers on the upper pay scale
E - excellent teachers
A - advanced skills teachers (ASTs)

Induction standards for newly qualified teachers (NQTs) can be found on the TDA site.

The national standards for headteachers are available on the National College for School Leadership (NCSL) website.

Teachers' performance should be viewed in relation to their current career stage and the career stage they are approaching. The relevant standards should be looked at as a whole in order to help teachers
identify areas of strength and areas for further professional development. The standards should therefore be used as a backdrop to performance management discussions. Information on teachers performance management can be found on the TDA site and on the EGfL.

Assessing teachers against the post threshold standards

Ealing has produced guidance on the revised professional standards for teachers (word) and how they should be used in performance management. Please note all teachers wishing to apply for post threshold status need to be assessed against these revised standards, which are now known as the post-threshold standards.

From 1 September 2009 (round 10) the use of threshold application forms for those moving from core to post threshold will cease. Schools will need to use the outcomes of a teachers last two performance reviews to assess whether they have met the post-threshold standards. In the case of progression, teachers will need to show evidence that they their contribution to the school has been substantial and sustained.

More information regarding threshold and performance management from 2009 can be found in worforce agreement managing group note 21 on the TDA website.

The following grids may assist teaches with teachers working with the standards:

QTS and core standards (word)
Overseas trained teachers working towards QTS and exemption from induction will need to meet both sets of standards. It will also provide a comparison for NQTs to see how the core standards differ from the QTS standards.

Core standards (word)
Teachers should meet the core standards (C) at the end of induction period and continue to meet them throughout their teaching career.

Post threshold standards (word)
Themed grid to assist those working towards the post threshold standards. Each of the 10 post threshold standards are denoted with the letter P and marked in red.