The performance management of teachers in secondary schools"

This paper presents the opinions of managers and teachers on the subject of performance management of teachers in secondary schools; and how these opinions change depending on the shift of the department, degree, gender and the type of school also the shift occured depending on the department, degree and gender differences in every different type of school. The research method is an examine based on comparison. The pilot region of the research is the city centre of Kocaeli İzmit. The secondary schools in there are divided into two groups as the ones that give vocational education and the others by using the method of category sampling. 353 teachers out of 1336 in the pilot region are selected as the sampling. The number of teachers in each different type of schools is proportioned to the total teacher number in order to define the sampling numbers in the categories. The number of teachers in all schools is proportioned to the number of teachers in different type of schools in order to define the sampling numbers in the schools. As a consequence in vocational schools 185 teacher, in the other schools 168 teachers are selected as sampling. In both cetegories the number of managers are less than 100, so there are no sampling that is selected among the managers. All the managers are tested by "Teacher / Manager Performance Measure". The data are analysed in SPSS statistic programme according to the sub process of "the teacher performance management." The opinions of managers and teachers on the "performance management of teachers" in the secondary schools are analysed on account of "teacher performance management processes" by using t-test on independent samplings and single factor variation analysis (Anova). The data of the research show that teachers attend just the application process of " " "using the results of performance assessment", that is one of the processes of "teacher performance management", on the other hand they attend the application of other processes completely. While the managers attend the all applications of every processes. In the opinions of managers and teachers are not observed any disagreement depending on the variation of gender, department and type of school whereas depending on the variation of degree some significant disagreements are observed in in he case of some processes. In the opinions of teachers and managers of high schools that give vocational education, careless of gender or course type are not observed any disagreement on the "teacher performance management processes". Whereas the opinions of people in different degrees reveal an obvious disagreement. On the other hand in the other high schools, that do not centered on vocational education, the opinions of teachers do not vary depending on the gender, degree, department differences; while the opinions of managers vary depending on gender difference.