The Ministry of Education is racing against a tight deadline to finalise its new teacher evaluation system, with Parliament demanding the completed framework by early March.
The Monitoring Committee must deliver the final evaluation criteria for all teacher categories and a detailed service scheme for a newly created Senior Educator position by the end of February.
The ministry has drafted a controversial new promotion track that would allow experienced teachers to advance to a salary level equivalent to Assistant Director whilst remaining in the classroom.
The Senior Educator role represents a significant policy shift aimed at keeping talented teachers focused on instruction rather than pushing them toward administrative positions to earn higher salaries.
Senior Educators would mentor newly appointed teachers, coordinate professional development programmes, and submit progress reports to school directors. The position maintains full teaching duties with no reduction in classroom periods.
The ministry presented draft evaluation criteria to teaching organisations at the committee’s first session. Organisations submitted initial feedback at last Friday’s second meeting. The documents, prepared since last May during consultations on the evaluation scheme, now form the basis for final negotiations.
Evaluation framework details
The proposed criteria require teachers to demonstrate curriculum mastery across multiple learning readiness levels and maintain detailed student learning profiles. Teachers must identify struggling students, implement differentiation practices, and systematically apply both formative and final assessment.
School directors face evaluation on whether they create professional development opportunities, ensure teaching quality, and monitor whether staff effectively use assessment data to adapt instruction and inform parents.
The Education Committee, chaired by the ministry’s director general, must resolve any remaining disputes over the criteria before forwarding the package to Parliament for early March consideration.
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