Naace Strategic Conference 2007

Richard Millwood, Director Core Education UK
This session will share the progress made in the Naace/Core Education UK DfES funded project to develop new continuing professional development approaches for teachers using inquiry-based learning, online community, patchwork assessment, exhibition and personalised learning.

Where Naace stands on ICT CPD for Members
Roger Broadie, Broadie Associates Ltd and Member of the Naace Executive Committee

Niel McLean, Executive Director, Becta

ICT CPD: Gathering Evidence from Members to Inform the Naace Strategy
Christina Preston, Chair MirandaNet Fellowship; Margaret Danby, Education Consultant and John Cuthell, Director Research and Implementation MirandaNet Fellowship

David Litchfield, Headteacher, Castle View, Sunderland and Caroline McHale, Director of Business and Community Services, Castle View School, Sunderland

Senior managers face not only the developments of new technologies, but also the changing demands on information and communication. At Castle View School, the leadership group has been working to bring a coherent approach to development, monitoring and improvement by concentrating on the impact for the individual student. This session will explore the approaches to student participation and individual learning that have driven the changes in information systems and the skills of the workforce.

Dr Vanessa Pittard, Director Evidence and Evaluation, Becta

Practice-based research has an important role to play in building up evidence of how technology can be used effectively to support learning.

It also plays an important role I enabling learning to take place from the leading edge and enabling effective professional reflection on emerging practice.

In researching new practice with technology practitioners need to consider: robustness of design, capturing the learner experience, assessment of outcomes, salience and transferability of findings.

There are particular challenges in assessing the value of learning technologies to learning outcomes.  A framework of outcomes relating to technology for learning is presented

Tim Tarrant, Head of ICT Team, TDA; Georgina Stein, Canterbury Christ Church University and Member of the Naace Executive Committee; Sarah Neild, Teacher, ICT Coordinator and AST at Birchley St Mary’s Catholic Primary School; Zoe Goodwin, Vice Principle, Greensward College and Margaret Baxter, Teacher, ICT Team Member and AST at Eccleston Lane Ends Primary School

This session will draw on the experience of the TDA and will cover its draft CPD strategy for the school workforce. It will draw on the TDA’s experience over the last 8 years and the conclusions that can be drawn. One conclusion is the simple fact that the best CPD is most often teachers working with teachers and this will be illustrated by the work and experience of Sarah Neild and Margaret Baxter. A challenge is how we can make initial teacher training, induction and professional development a continuum and help reduce the loss of teachers in the first 5 years of their teaching. The session will look at the factors that influence professional development in the future and how we might address them.

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Jane Finch, Teacher Adviser ICT, HoS Manager, Worcestershire LA

This session will consider some of the features of successful Primary ICT CPD, capitalising on lessons learned in the Worcestershire Hands on Support Scheme.

Margaret Danby, Education Consultant, Mirandanet Fellow

Lessons learned from various evaluations about what promotes and what impedes effective CPD will be described. The session will include points raised with evaluators by both teachers and providers about what worked really well for them as well as what went wrong. These lessons will be used to identify criteria that will help schools to select appropriate CPD provision, to monitor its effectiveness and intervene when problems are identified and finally to evaluate its impact in school. The merits of a range of evaluation strategies will also be discussed.

Christina Preston, Chair MirandaNet Fellowship; John Cuthell, Director Research and Implementation MirandaNet Fellowship and Dai Thomas, Director of ICT at Warden Park Specialist School and Mirandanet Fellow

This theme will explore a number of approaches to ICT CPD and evaluate their effectiveness in terms of school improvement, pedagogical change and learning for both pupils and teachers. Examples will be drawn from a number of projects that have examined the affordances provided by new technologies, and ways in which these have been used to promote personal and institutional transformation in learning.

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Michael Smith, Professional Development Coordinator, Forest School, Snarebrook

Michael will describe his own CPD journey in ICT to bring out strategic issues and offer an opportunity for future thinking.

This session will also investigate how collaborative learning environments and multiple modal mapping can enhance professional development.

Byron Evans, Adviser, RTU

This presentation will report on a pilot programme involving forty-eight schools in Northern Ireland. The programme had as its main aim the exploration of an online collaborative community approach to develop the ICT competence of staff and to embedding ICT into the life and work of the school.

In the context of school development planning and whole school improvement.