ABSTRACT
The dictionary is the foundation to much of the work in this book, and can also be widely applied in professional development and performance management. In particular, when coding Critical Incident Interviews, the scales and descriptors will allow you to judge the presence and strength of a characteristic
Different levels of the profession require different levels of characteristics. Accordingly, we provide a key showing the level of each characteristic expected for:
Main Professional Grade
Post Threshold
Outstanding / AST
Finally, it needs to be re-emphasised that not every effective teacher possesses every characteristic in every cluster. Rather, they have strengths across all five clusters, and use different combinations of characteristics in different ways. The Rating Protocols in Practical 3 detail the different combinations required at different levels of the profession.
