PILOTING A TEACHER COMPETENCE MANAGEMENT MODEL IN SCHOOLS

Compulsory education curriculum reform will introduce teaching 21st century skills bringing in significant changes to how teacher work happens in Latvia. This highlights the role of school teams to plan not only whole-school development but also teacher personalized professional development to implement necessary changes. This research presents a schoolbased comparative case study for piloting a teacher competence management model that is created by the authors. The model represents the interaction of goal setting and competence management in organizations and this research paper is emphasizing parts of the model related to teacher competence assessment and development done at the school. 8 schools participated in the piloting in school year 2018/19. The comparative case study in spring semester 2019 happened through gathering and analysing data such as written reports and working documents from school teams. In this research paper we aim to introduce the reader about the four phases of the model and the piloting process and results of the fourth phase - competence development. This paper presents a research project still in progress and will seek ways how such a model may be implemented in schools.