Standards

On this page:

professional standards for teachers
post threshold and performance management
professional standards for headteachers
Ealing professional standards support materials

Professional standards for teachers

The current professional standards for teachers (TDA website) 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 (TDA website)
Meeting standards, guidance and statutory regulations providing a clear, up-to-date definition of the induction period and information on its completion, including roles and responsibilities, assessment and appeals.

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.

Performance management for teachers - links

TDA website
Guidance for schools and local authorities (LAs) to ensure that all teachers and headteachers are empowered and confident to engage fully with performance management to develop their skills and careers.

Ealing Grid for Learning
Teachers performance management and review page. Includes regulations, guidance and performance management process information.

Chartered London Teacher (CLT) status

To achieve CLT status, people are specifically judged on the 12 CLT standards. Teachers can not be on the main pay scale, so in order to be eligible they will want to integrate the CLT standards with other requirements for their career and pay scale progression (as well as having taught in London state schools for four years and been registered for two). For instance, it makes sense for teachers on the main scale to work towards the post-threshold standards (whilst maintaining the core standards) as well as the CLT standards. For more information on CLT status go to the CLT website.

Post threshold and performance management - link

Assessing teachers against the post threshold standards
Guidance and resources on post threshold assessment process, requirements, performance reviews.

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Professional standards for headteachers - link

National College for School Leadership (NCSL) website
Information and resources on the National Standards for headteachers. These provide a framework for the role of headteacher. Set out in six, interdependent areas, the standards identify the knowledge requirements and professional qualities headteachers bring to the role.

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Ealing professional standards support materials

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.

Excellent teacher standards audit tool (word)

Advanced skills teacher audit tool (word)

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