Volume 8 : Issue 1 (2021)

Teacher Performance Appraisal at School: A Critical Analysis

Everyone wants a feedback to improve so why to leave the person who is doing the most important job in the world, they are the teachers who have the most important responsibility of making the future of our country. They have the potential to bring a qualitative change in the whole education system if provided a right kind of support through a constructive feedback. It has been observed that India faces a major challenge in qualitative change in education; study after study shows that children are failing to meet grade-level learning outcomes (ASER, 2015). Somewhere it can be a result of faulty or lack of practice Teacher Performance Appraisal (TPA) as Teacher performance has a strong link with student outcomes. In the school effectiveness of teaching learning and its continuous improvement is assured by the effective monitoring and evaluating. It is the key aspect to bring qualitative change in education system by enhancing the teaching quality. The same has also been recognized by OECD 2013b“teacher appraisal can be a key lever for increasing the focus on teaching quality.” TPA generally consider as the formal process which a school uses to assess the teachers’ performance and effectiveness in the classroom. Ideally, the findings from these evaluations or appraisal are used to provide feedback to teachers and guide their professional development. Even the developed countries like USA, England, Canada, Singapore, Australiaetc. have adopted TPA as one of the most important part of their education system. These countries have a separate framework for this particular purpose. In our country also NCFTE (2009) is there but in that also the emphasis has been on the evaluation of pre service teacher trainees while the guideline for evaluation of in service teachers has been neglected. Although in the schools whether it government, private or semigovernment different type of evaluation system has been used to give feedback to the teachers either directly or indirectly. Some of the prevailing practices like APAR (Annual Performance Assessment Report), ADEPTS (Advancement of Educational Performance through Teacher Support), PINDICS have been analysed in the present paper and the strengths and weaknesses of those practices have been discussed briefly. Besides this some suggestions also havealso been discussed to improve the TPA system to bring the required qualitative change in the education system.

Teacher performance appraisal (TPA), Current Practices, Critical analysis, APAR, ADEPTS, PINDICS.

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