Middle leaders' self-evaluation guide

This guidance is aimed at middle leaders in secondary schools: subject and year leaders, SENCOs and other coordinators of aspects of school improvement. It provides guidance for middle leaders in evaluating the performance of their teams and the teams' impact on pupils. It is designed to support middle leaders' contribution to the school self-evaluation process, and the inspection process, through evidence gathering and making judgements.

This guide helps middle leaders to develop and refine their evidence and analytical processes.

This guide:

• sets out some underlying principles in relation to the inspection self-evaluation guidance and requirements
• sets out the responsibilities of middle leaders in contributing to school self-evaluation and in using it to ensure improvement
• provides examples and guidance on self-evaluation.