25. Legal indemnity As teachers and school leaders will be implementing the calculated grades process in schools on behalf of the Minister, arrangements have been put in place to extend a State indemnity to them and to the boards of management of their schools. The indemnity could be invoked where someone is sued in their own capacity (i.e. named in civil proceedings as an individual teacher, principal or board of management/ETB). This indemnity will be subject to conditions around notification and cooperation with the State in defending any legal cases should they arise and will only be capable of being invoked where a person has acted bona fide, i.e. has made every reasonable effort to carry out their role in accordance with the guidance provided in this Guide and the relevant circular of the Department of Education and Skills..
The professional judgement of the teacher may not be appealed.
jimmytwotimes 2013 wrote: » Far as I can see this is really straightforward Fill in Form A for each student, Form B for ranking each class you have, one for each level if more than one level in your class Have your evidence and use your professional judgement to arrive at grades. Don't bunch grades, don't gravitate to multiples of 5/10 or grade boundaries. Use a decimal to differentiate between students on the same grade. Have your meeting, double check everything, data input especially Send documents on to principal, job done
drake70 wrote: » Hi OP, I'm not a teacher. Is this circular available to the public? If not, you might get in trouble for posting it here
Treppen wrote: » Thanks I've currently gone on the run now.
km79 wrote: » Hope to wrap this up in time for our 3 months of holidays
Treppen wrote: » You might be thinking that alright buddy, but that ain't necessarily so.
Blondini wrote: » I note the word 'evidence' makes 65 appearances in the document. I still don't know if my record of results of assessments in my teacher journal qualify as evidence without the students' physical piece of work. I would love clarity on this as it would have a significant impact on some individual grades. Anybody got any insight on this
History Queen wrote: » No idea, also for the last few years we are asked to shred our journals at the end of the school year. Does that stand this year?
joebloggs32 wrote: » What clown told ye to do that. You should retain that information in a secure location, especially while they are students in your school. As professionals we need data to be able to gauge student progression. The leaving and juniocert does not take place in a single year. People really have lost the run of themselves with GDPR. Once data is used appropriately and securely stored then there is no problem. Put it in your schools GDPR policy.
History Queen wrote: » ETB wide policy in our ETB. All teacher journals to be destroyed at end of school year or preferably not used at all. We do have VSWARE which has records of house exams/behaviour/attendance and homework.
doc_17 wrote: » We buy our own. I’ll not be destroying it.
km79 wrote: » “Mr McHugh conceded that the predictive grades system was not perfect and not his preferred method of assessment. He said that further clarification may be needed in the weeks and months ahead” Don’t like the sound of that !
