Faculty and Staff Development
Strategic Plan 2001-2005
AIS will attract, retain, and support the development of the best faculty and staff available locally, nationally and internationally. Our objective is excellent teaching with a focus on the process of student learning and on measuring, against clear standards, what students know and are able to do. AIS will support and encourage each teacher to become communicatively proficient in at least one language other than English. All who work at AIS will model the high value the school places in "joy of learning, a nurturing and diverse community, mutual respect and purposeful effort to set and achieve high standards."
Goals
- AIS faculty and staff salaries and benefit package will equal or exceed those of Atlanta area benchmark schools.
- New teacher orientation and faculty professional development will be designed so that all teachers follow a common repertoire in terms of philosophy, pedagogy and assessment, while still allowing for and encouraging individual and cultural distinctiveness.
- Faculty attrition at AIS will be less than attrition at benchmark international schools in the United States.
- Each teacher will be an active member of at least one professional association relevant to his or her assignment.
- All teachers will demonstrate competence in the appropriate use of information technology as a productivity tool and as a tool for teaching and learning.
- AIS will continue to revise its annual performance review process to align it with the goals and action imperatives of AIS’s strategic plan. Compensation of faculty and staff will be tied, in part, to performance as gauged by this review process.
- AIS will implement a process to ensure continuity when faculty and staff leave the school.