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Prevention is better than cure.
The aim of appraisal is to encourage professional development. Any notion of judging competency with appraisal systems is, or will be shortly, dead as a dodo. It is simply too arduous, too divisive, too time consuming and too expensive to pursue competency proceedings to the bitter end. So, forget competency and concentrate on professional development. Yet much of the focus and value of professional development is squandered because many teachers feel appraisal is threatening.