EMS 360

Staff reviews provide essential feedback and evaluation

High performing schools recognise the importance of developing their staff to the highest level. To enable this a professional performance review process is an essential part, not only to improve staff performance but to enhance school leadership. Implementing a teacher evaluation plan enables a clear focus on school improvement within an environment of constructive feedback.

Conducting performance reviews is a simple and useful process to attain an overview of individual staff to:

Regular and ongoing staff reviews provide a valuable evidence based chronicle of a staff members performance and progression over time.

Teacher effectiveness can only reliably be identified by their school and classroom performance. Feedback is fundamental to a constructive performance review. Our Staff Review process cultivates an ongoing relationship between the staff member and their reviewer/mentor, thereby helping to establish a culture of sought after constructive feedback.

Have a look at the EMS Staff Review module features

When the Staff Review module is teamed with the 360 Degree review and Management Diary modules you are able to collect critical information that provides accurate teacher evaluation over a period of time and from a variety of sources.

Have a look at Comprehensive overview of staff performance for more information about the power of the modules in combination

EMS 360 provides flexible staff performance reviews for schools and business

EMS 360 offers an all-in-one system for conducting staff performance reviews that is both flexible and customisable. Developed specifically to be used by schools to provide a simple and effective staff review and appraisal process, our software can just as readily be used for any business organisation to conduct staff performance reviews and incorporating key performance indicators.

Whether used for school or business you can set up and administer your reviews in accordance with your individual preferences and practices. We have worked extensively to identify the specific requirements for different schools within Australia and incorporated functionality to align their review and appraisal processes. A public school in Victoria may be required to conduct PDP Reviews whereas a NSW school may be required to use Pathway Reviews info Pathway reviews)

The EMS 360 Staff Review module provides the tools to collect and manage meaningful data along with supporting evidence - creating a repository of information that can be easily accessed to identify areas for improvement, future goals and monitor progress to build teacher effectiveness.

PDP Reviews

Used by Victorian government schools to mirror department requirements for PDP Reviews

PDP Review Cycle

Start-cycle

Mid-cycle

End-cycle

PDP Documentation

Pathway Review Cycle

Stage 1 - Start Cycle

Stage 2 - Mid-Cycle

Pathway Reviews have never been easier

Australian Institute of Teaching Standards

The EMS 360 Staff Review and PD modules can be configured to have the AITSL standards incorporated, simplifying compliance and reporting for your school. We use both the Australian Professional standards for Teachers and Australian Professional standards for Principals.
Having the AITSL standards available allows for great flexibility - they can be used for reference, adopted entirely or selectively edited.

Improved learning outcomes through teacher development

Professional learning for all staff is the key to enhance their effectiveness to enable better outcomes for all students. Schools need to provide ongoing professional learning opportunities that contribute to the professional growth of teaching and non teaching staff that develop their skills, knowledge and understandings. EMS 360 enables targeted professional learnings to meet specific school improvement goals.

If the administration of professional learning requires juggling copious amounts of paperwork,
We have the solution - EMS 360 PD module

Teacher Registration Reporting

All the information to produce required reports

Our system enables schools and teaching staff to meet registration requirements for the respective bodies, such as; VIT, QCT, BOSTES - NSW, TQI - ACT, CECV

Manage staff accredited training

Quickly and easily find out who has a particular accredited training qualification, such as anaphylaxis and when accreditation renewals are due. The EMS 360 Accreditation module allows you to have complete, accurate accreditation records available for the for the entire staff. You can see who is accredited and when they need to renew. Planned training events are more cost effective. Accreditation verification includes when and by who they were verified. Detailed reports can be produced and printed as required.

Every staff member has access and is able to maintain their personal accreditation records.

When used in combination with the Professional Development module you are able to connect professional learning with staff accreditations, so that once the PD event has taken place all of the participants are automatically assigned the accreditation.

See Accreditations for EMS 360 accreditation module features

Developing an excursion management policy

Effective excursion management requires the school to manage the various risks associated with all excursions, incursions including overseas student travel.

In order to minimise risks the excursion management policy should set some guidelines to be followed when planning excursions, such as the requirement for a management plan or risk assessment, along with details of documentation to be completed beforehand. Final approval for excursions is dependent on meeting the excursion management policy requirements.

Our excursion management module provides an easy to use system to make sure that your excursions are managed professionally and in accordance with your school and departmental policies.

360 degree teacher and leadership feedback

360 degree feedback is a system for collecting private and confidential multi source reviews, which are often used to review and evaluate performance. When used to support professional learning and development 360 degree reviews can be enormously beneficial for both the individual and the school. It is a proven method for obtaining confidential feedback in response to specific questions.

To be effective 360 degree reviews need to be used as a respectful and professionally implemented development tool.

Individual Benefits

School Benefits

Our EMS 360 degree review system is used to collect teacher feedback from both internal (eg. peers and managers) and external reviewers (eg. students and parents). The entire review process is managed by the school, developing the questions, selecting the participants and interpreting the results. The review content can include both written response and rating scale survey questions.

We use a secure external reviewer logon process to ensure privacy and confidentiality. For convenience responses can be entered via a smartphone or tablet app. Results are graphed for easy analysis and can be used for a range of purposes.

See 360 Degree Reviews module features

Comprehensive and organised notes

Maintain permananent records as private and confidential diary notes. Entries are catalogued using your schools custom categories, such as parent/teacher meetings or behaviour incidents. Files can be attached so that all of the relevent documentation is one easy to search place. Entries can be selected to download as PDF or shared with other diary users.

See Management Diary module features

Absence information available immediately

Detailed records for all users, the school and staff members, along with doctors certificates and other attached files. EMS 360 makes it easy to request leave and advise absence. All key management users, including the daily organiser are notified immediately by text message or email. Records can be easily searched and reports produced.

See Leave & Absence module features