A proposed new system for assessing teachers makes no mention of controversial expectations that up to 40 per cent could fail a review.

But teachers would have to exceed new performance targets before they passed assessment if the model is introduced.

Last year the Minister Responsible for the Teaching Profession Peter Hall said the bar needed to be raised, with 99.8 per cent of eligible teachers moving up the pay scale in 2012. At the time the government said it expected between 60 per cent and 80 per cent of teachers to gain a successful assessment in a typical school. It has now abandoned that range.

Victorian Association of State Secondary Principals president Frank Sal said the ''draft guidelines'' were ''close to a performance-pay approach to education''.

''Teachers have to be meeting all their standards and then they have to meet all these goals to actually achieve what would be a normal pay increment for many jobs in society,'' he said.