as the new career structure is implemented it will be crucial for the established certification process to send clear signals of rigour in identifying both good performance at the different stages of the career and underperformance as a teacher an important issue will be to resolve the current duplication between the certification process associated with the career structure and the teacher performance evaluation system to take advantage of the continuous character of the teacher performance evaluation system and to address the need for teachers to continuously show they are fit for the profession at the different levels of the career structure it could be considered introducing the requirement for recertification at a given career stage