I had a new thought. The thought is about Performance Management. Here's the thought:

We (the college) clearly think that in terms of potential success gains, it is worth the financial outlay to employ four whole people specifically to coach the students for achievement.

These achievement coaches are distinct and different from the teaching staff, and are employed to work almost entirely on a one-to-one basis with students on target setting, development of skills, all that sort of stuff. If you like, they're responsible for developing an individual "Performance Management" plan with each student.

The fact that they're not the teaching staff is seen as advantageous in this, as the coaching/mentoring role they're fulfilling is a bit different to the relationship between teaching staff and their charges (which is more of a line management relationship - the teacher is the leader/manager directly "in charge" of the student's progress in a specific curriculum area).

Anyhow, is there any reason why there shouldn't / couldn't be someone employed to do for teaching staff what the Achievement Coaches do for students?

Just like the students, the teaching staff are a mixed bunch of folks, all of whom have individual needs, strengths and weaknesses.

Just like the students, the teaching staff would surely benefit from a non-judgemental, solution-based second opinion on their progress from someone able ot look at their work from an outside perspective.

And just as a third party (the Achievement Coach) doing this for the students instead of a teacher is seen as advantageous, wouldn't it follow that a third party doing this for teachers would be advantageous compared to their line managers having to take on this role?

So, yeah, my idea is - Would Performance Management be better if we, the teaching staff, had a Performance Coach, like the students have an Achievement Coach?

Actually, that's a question. The idea is - Performance Management would be better if we, the teaching staff, had a Performance Coach, like the students have an Achievement Coach.