Quality Award
The Tallinn School System Quality Award model
- Gives all schools and kindergartens equal opportunity to demonstrate their good work to the outside world, raising the competitiveness and prestige of the school.
- Information is received on the condition the institution’s resources, processes and services are in, and how good the results are
- Allows the board to hear and consider the opinions and evaluations of interest groups and staff
- A good basis for self-appraisal
- Opportunity to change attitudes and conceptions of quality
- A merit system for everyone: school, teachers, students
- Awakening the public’s interest in education and issues in the field
- Be a signpost to the quality award and show that quality awards are not only the domain of business
- A successful showing at the quality awards ceremony is one where the necessity of evaluation is perceived , evaluation is accepted as a part of daily activity and participation is voluntary