moreover there are concerns that the current framework for teacher professional development is not responding adequately to teachers needs there is little flexibility in the current provision it is unclear whether adequate learning opportunities for teachers are available and incentives to engage in professional development seem to be increasingly related to salary increases and career advancement finally kazakhstan shows a clear commitment to external accountability based around school evaluation with a regular cycle of external school evaluations school attestation and a formal certification process for teachers teacher attestation however the review team formed the impression that there is an overemphasis on the accountability function of both teacher evaluation and school evaluation with less attention paid to genuine professional discussions about effective teaching the standard staffing of public educational organizations and list of teaching positions and equalstatus employees decree no