Sustaining Progress - Department of Taoiseach

24.24 Staff will co-operate with new management structures designed to co-ordinate and supervise the
extending range of responsibilities of VECs.
Information Technology
24.25 It is agreed also that full co-operation will be given to the introduction of new or enhanced
information technology systems.
Performance Management and Development
24.26 It is agreed that the VECs may introduce a structured system of performance management and
development to ensure alignment of performance and effort with organisational goals and strategies.
This will involve:
■ the setting of individual annual targets in agreement with the immediate superior;
■ the annual review of the outcome;
■ the identification of development needs and agreement on a programme of development; and
■ a review of the delivery of the agreed development measures.
D - Teachers (First and Second Level)
Parent/Teacher Meetings
24.27 The existing agreed commitments under the PCW provide for:
(i) the holding of parent/teacher meetings of locally agreed duration on the basis of their being held
half-within and half-without normal school time; and
(ii) the holding of one staff meeting per term of locally agreed duration on the basis of its being held
half-within and half-without normal school time.
24.28 In respect of the existing agreed commitments, it is agreed that they will be completely implemented
and in operation for the school year 2003/2004.
24.29 In respect of parent/teacher meetings, the parties agree to enter immediate discussions, to be
concluded by end 2003, with the education partners, with a view to extending the existing agreed
commitment, by the school year 2004/2005, in a way which provides flexible, formal parent/teacher
meetings at times convenient to parents and teachers and which minimises disruption to students’
tuition time and to their parents.
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