Structure of TSAR

Performance Standards (PS)

  • Performance standards are areas in which teachers perform their tasks and responsibilities. They refer to statements describing what is expected of a teacher’s knowledge and performance in his/her day-to-day teaching and other related activities inside and outside the classroom. The following performance standards have been identified:
Performance Standard 1: Designing Learning Experiences:
  • The teacher designs the classroom activities, appropriate pedagogical strategies, resources, learning outcomes, assessment procedures to meet the needs of all students.
Performance Standard 2: Knowledge and Understanding of Subject Matter:
  • The teacher demonstrates an understanding of the curriculum, subject content, and developmental needs of students by providing relevant learning experiences.
Performance Standard 3: Strategies for Facilitating Learning:
a).The teacher:
  • uses resources and procedures to provide a respectful, positive, safe, and student-centered environment that is conducive to learning.
  • engages students in learning by using a variety of teaching-learning strategies to meet
b). individual learning needs.
  • communicates clearly with learners.
  • collects, analyzes, and uses all relevant information to assess learners’ academic progress, and provides timely feedback to both-learners and parents throughout the school year.
Performance Standard 4: Interpersonal Relationship.
  • The teacher collaborates and works with colleagues, students, parents and communities to develop and sustain a positive school climate that supports students’ learning.
Performance Standard 5: Professional Development
  • The teacher maintains a commitment to professional ethics, engages in innovation and classroom (action) research, takes responsibility and participates in professional growth that results in enhanced students’ learning.
Performance Standard 6: School Development
  • The teacher takes initiative and contributes to the activities which lead to the school’s development.
Performance Indicators

  • Performance indicators are specific activities that are required to be performed by a teacher inside and outside the class in order to be observed and assessed.

Descriptors

Performance descriptors are observable and measurable statements of teachers’ actions aligned to each performance indicator. They serve as the basis for identifying the level of performance.

  • In some of the descriptors, there are terms like Occasionally, Often, Usually and Always.
  • Occasionally means the presence (frequency) of the activities under the given performance indicator ranges between 0 to 30%,
  • Often means the presence of the activities under the given performance indicator ranges between 31% to 60%
  • Usually means the presence of the activities under the given performance indicator ranges between 61% to 90%
  • Always means the presence of the activities under the given performance indicator ranges between 91% to 100%