Advocacy, Training and Planning. ⮚ At a full staff meeting the principal/SMT will explain to staff – ▪ What the IQMS is; ▪ What the benefits will be for educators, learners, the school and the system; and ▪ Why this approach was adopted. ⮚ Training must specifically address issues relating to how the IQMS should be implemented in the school. ⮚ All officials and educators must have a thorough understanding of the purposes, principles, processes and procedures of the IQMS. ⮚ Training must enable officials and educators to plan and administer the IQMS in a uniform and consistent manner. ⮚ IQMS planning by the SDT must incorporate all the processes together with the time frame in which they must be completed, as well as all individuals involved together with each one’s responsibilities. ⮚ It must take the schools’ year plan into account (drawn up by the SMT). ⮚ Schools must factor in to their broad planning the cycles of evaluation and development. ▪ Baseline evaluation – in the first term. ▪ Summative evaluation - in the last term. ▪ First Developmental Cycle and reflection – end of March to end of June. ▪ Second Developmental Cycle and reflection – end of June to end of September.] ⮚ Secondary schools must ensure that educators who teach Grade 9 or 12 classes are evaluated before the external assessments/examinations commence. ⮚ By end of February educators must be provided with a timetable indicating when they can expect to be evaluated. ⮚ The principal calls a general staff meeting at the beginning of the year at which educators are apprised of the IQMS procedures and processes.
Advocacy, Training and Planning. 6.2.1 At a full staff meeting, the principal will explain to the staff the following: o What the QMS is; o The benefits of the QMS for educators, learners, the school and the system, and o How the QMS will be implemented in the school.
