The School Teacher Appraisal (Wales) Regulations 2011

Monitoring progress

41.—(1) The appraiser and the unattached teacher must seek to agree at a meeting held under regulation 39 on the procedures for monitoring the unattached teacher’s performance against the objectives agreed under regulation 39(1) or where objectives have not been agreed, the objectives set out in writing under regulation 39(4).

(2) If procedures are not agreed under paragraph (1) the appraiser must set out in writing such procedures for monitoring the unattached teacher’s performance as the appraiser considers appropriate.

(3) Procedures whether agreed under paragraph (1) or set out in writing under paragraph (2) must include:

(a) a requirement for the appraiser in appraising the unattached teacher to observe the unattached teacher teaching on at least one occasion during the appraisal cycle;

(b) a requirement for the appraiser to seek information from those with relevant professional knowledge of the unattached teacher at other places at which the unattached teacher regularly spends part of their working time.

(4) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (5) an appraiser may not obtain from any other person information, whether written or oral, relevant to the unattached teacher’s performance unless the unattached teacher consents or the information is obtained in accordance with procedures agreed under paragraph (1) or where procedures have not been agreed the procedures set out in writing under paragraph (2).

(5) Paragraph (4) does not apply to any information which the appraiser is entitled to receive under any other provision of these Regulations.