A head teacher wants to know how their staff are doing — not to catch anyone out, but because part of leading a school is noticing who is quietly drowning and who needs a hand before a small problem becomes a term-long one. That knowledge usually arrives too late, gathered from corridor conversations and the occasional complaint. The teacher performance view is an attempt to give a school's administrators that picture earlier, and to frame it as support rather than scrutiny.
What it brings together
For a school administrator, the view summarises how teaching is going across the school, pulling several threads into one place instead of scattering them across separate screens:
- Activity on the platform and the content a teacher has created
- Grading responsiveness — how quickly work is turned around, and any backlog of ungraded submissions
- Attendance marking, kept up to date or falling behind
- Teaching load, so effort is read against how much a teacher is actually carrying
- Student outcomes for that teacher's own classes
Normalised for load, not raw
A raw count of anything punishes the busiest people, so the summary score is normalised for load. A teacher carrying twice the classes is not measured as though they carry one. The aim is a fairer read of how someone is managing what is on their plate, not a tally that rewards whoever was given the lightest timetable.
Built to point at who needs help
The view surfaces a 'needs attention' list — the teachers whose signals suggest they may be overloaded or struggling to keep up — and lets an administrator drill into any individual, with a trend over time rather than a single frozen number. A dip is a prompt to check in, not a verdict. There is CSV export and an email digest for administrators who would rather glance at a regular summary than open a dashboard.
A support tool, not surveillance
We are deliberate, and a little wary, about what this is for. It is easy to imagine a dashboard like this being used to rank teachers and punish the bottom of the list, and that is precisely the use we designed against. The intent is the opposite: to help a head teacher spot who might be overloaded, who has a grading backlog piling up because they are covering for a colleague, or who could use a conversation and some support.
Numbers with a person attached
No dashboard understands a teacher's week — the difficult class, the family emergency, the extra duties nobody logged. The view is a starting point for a human conversation, not a substitute for one. Used well, it helps a school direct its care to where it is needed, which is the whole reason a head teacher would want a clearer picture in the first place.