Staff performance

[pickles37]

Hi,

 

I am looking to improve staff performance and to devise an action plan for each staff member so that they can also monitor and Know what they need to do.

 

How do you all monitor staff performance?

 

I currently use supervisions/appraisals and peer observations. What else can I do or how can I use information more effectively to improve teaching and care?

 

Thank you

[AliceinWonderland]

Try videoing the staff and then get them to appraise it themselves, looking for strengths and weaknesses, or video the everyone in one room and do it at a staff meeting.

[Rob6692]

You or one of your staff members could do a Sustained Shared Thinking and Emotional Well-being (SSTEW) audit. It's similar to ITERS and ECERS but looks at interactions between staff and children.

You can buy it on Amazon (or elsewhere) or, if you know any university students, you could borrow it from a university library when you want to carry it out

Edited March 29, 2016 by Rob6692

[BroadOaks]

We also currently use supervisions/appraisals and peer observations.. this works well enough for us. We have never recorded staff at work yet it sounds like a great idea, and the SSTEW idea went right over my head, again it sounds like great advice, if you have the time.

[Guest]

You or one of your staff members could do a Sustained Shared Thinking and Emotional Well-being (SSTEW) audit. It's similar to ITERS and ECERS but looks at interactions between staff and children.

You can buy it on Amazon (or elsewhere) or, if you know any university students, you could borrow it from a university library when you want to carry it out

[Guest]

I you know the title and author of this book. I'm interested in having a go at this and will ask one of our parents to borrow it for us

[sunnyday]

Assessing Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care

Sustained Shared Thinking and Emotional Well-being (SSTEW) Scale for 2-5 year olds provision

 

Iram Siraj, Denise Kingston, Edward Melhuish

[Guest]

Very much appreciated sunnyday

[sunnyday]

You're welcome

[pickles37]

Thank you all for your advice. Do you record targets on an action plan for all the team? Not just on their supervision documents - how do you keep on top of it all, almost feels like each member should have their learning journals?

 

X

[thumperrabbit]

, almost feels like each member should have their learning journals?

 

X

Visited an 'Oustanding' pre-school a few years ago that do just that, they were nice but there's no way would I have the time!

[angel99]

We are a R.improvement setting and are due our ofated inspection any day now.We have worked very hard in all areas. One of the things we gave started is Learning Journeys(in a ring binder) for all staff which have got their supervisions in and we have a separate section called staff monitoring. It does take a bit of time for our two weekly monitoring of planning/learning journey's and overall performance but i think it will be worth it if we get a good.We need a good this time or our funding will get pulled.

[pickles37]

Please could you give me an idea of how you monitor on a fortnightly basis - do you do this through peer observations?

[SueFinanceManager]

Hi

 

There is a members only article here on Peer Observations that might be helpful

 

And there are quite a few documents in the resource library here relating to staff appraisal and performance management etc

 

Hope they may be of help ::1a

[pickles37]

Thank you

[angel99]

Hi pickles37

 

I am a nursery manager and monitor my practitioners children's learning journey's and planning fortnightly.I also monitor staff performance through room observations and of course peer observations every 2 to 4 weeks.hope that helps

[angel99]

Hi again

 

The way i monitor learning Journey's is to collect a few learning journeys off each key person and i go through them to make sure that staff are doing good quality observations and the next steps are appropriate and challenging. I have to do this as our inspector at our last inspection found that this wasnt happening

[pickles37]

So how do you record all of this to ensure that you have the evidence to show Ofsted?

[FSFRebecca]

The requirement for Ofsted is that leaders and managers should 'monitor ... coach ... mentor ... support' p32 para 150. Inspectors have to obtain evidence but that evidence doesn't have to be paperwork. If you look at the link above and see p32 para 149 it describes what the sources of evidence need to be. Any notes or records you make should help you and your staff, they are not for Ofsted.

[Daisyjose]

Hi - I am trying to encourage our staff to self evaluate on a weekly basis and would like some help as to what I could put on the evaluation sheet - things like "what I did well this week", "what could I improve on" I would also like to encourage the staff to just go that extra little bit but I need some help on how to put this across. I find this forum so helpful so any suggestions would be very welcome. Thanks

[SueFinanceManager]

Hi Daisyjose

 

In the resource library here (members only content) there is a downloadable document called 'Reflection on personal practice 2016' that you might find a useful starting point that you could amend to suit your requirements.

[Daisyjose]

Hi Daisyjose

 

In the resource library here (members only content) there is a downloadable document called 'Reflection on personal practice 2016' that you might find a useful starting point that you could amend to suit your requirements.

Thank you