The present article reveals the findings received from the interview process of the secondary school teachers in Kazakhstan. The interview questions covered a wide range of issues: teachers’ awareness of the teacher performance appraisal system, preparedness to the National Qualification Test, and understanding of the stages in the performance appraisal process, accessibility and transparency of the information about performance appraisal in Kazakhstan. The findings reveal that there is a significant amount of teachers feeling inadequate or insufficient support from their educational institutions and a low level of autonomous and self-independent teachers’ work on getting prepared to the teachers’ performance appraisal process.