Administrator's Corner
SELF-EVALUATION – THE BACKBONE OF A
GREAT SCHOOL
BY TIM NELSON
tasks by many school leaders. At its
heart, self-evaluation is simply asking:
• How well are we doing?
• How do we know?
• How does that compare with
any benchmarking or national
mainstream comparison?
I
nternational schools have long
carried out self-evaluation in every
aspect of their work, but it has not
always been performed objectively
and systematically to the extent that is
now expected.
Self-evaluation
importance in
schools, as
mainstream
difference.
is of even greater
international primary
the distance from
school
exacerbates
School leadership and self-
evaluation
The implications of this has ensured
that the school leadership team
has a greater connection with self-
evaluation as a tool for improvement.
At the root of this connection, are a
number of questions:
• How c