Monitoring Standards in ICT

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Monitoring Standards in ICT
Greenwich ICT Team
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Aims of sessions

• Why monitor ICT?
• How do I monitor ICT?
• When do I monitor?
• Who monitors you?
• Preparing for OFSTED

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Why Monitor ICT?

• Awareness of standards of ICT
• Know that the plans are in place
• Know that the plans are being taught
• Know the levels of ICT that the children in your
  school are achieving
• Understanding of teaching ICT
• Know the methods being used
• Know the strengths in your school
• Know the needs of your teachers
• Part of responsibility
• Requirement of your role
• Will give you evidence for internal/external uses
  (prepared for Ofsted)

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Where do I start?

• Create an ICT Development Plan
• Use the Greenwich ICT Team evaluation matrix
• Review the current school situation,
• Set a long term aim
• the vision for where you would like the school to
  be in 3 or 4 years.
• Work out the steps to get there
• prioritise what can be done in the short term and
  set yearly TARGETS for each area of the matrix
• Work out how to measure the success of each part
  of the development plan..
• This then gives you the things you need to
  monitor

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How do I monitor ICT?

• Three main areas
• Whole school use
• Teacher use
• Child use
• Follow the schools monitoring policy.
• Check planning
• Termly and weekly
• ICT lessons identified and objectives for lesson
  recorded.
• Cross curricular ICT links and opportunities also
  recorded

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How.

• Check record keeping
• I Can self assessment target cards
• Formal assessment method used within school.
• Check classroom displays
• Display 1
• Display 2
• Display 3
• Display 4

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How.

• Develop a portfolio
• Samples of childrens work
• Compare these to National Standards
• National Curriculum in Action website
• Digital photos of children using ICT.
• Exemplar portfolio from Robert Owen Nursery
• Provide demonstration lessons
• Observe colleagues

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When do I monitor?

• Look at time available
• use any non-contact time to monitor
  teaching/learning
• Request non-contact time to complete monitoring
  tasks if required
• Be realistic
• Set yourself achievable targets
• Make it worth while!
• Ensure that any monitoring has an outcome and
  informs action planning or school development for
  ICT

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Who monitors you?

• Parents
• Governors
• Senior management
• LEA
• OFSTED

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Preparing for OFSTED

• ICT Co-ordinators checklist
• Becta website
• Preparing for an inspection
• Inspection toolkit
• ictteam.greenwich.lgfl.net
• ICTCo file