Children come first in ICT

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Children come first in ICT

• The Bridge Special School Business and Enterprise
  College

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Who are we?
Una vandenBerg Retired Head Teacher
Heather Davis Head Teacher
Diane Hasell Assistant Head Teacher / ICT
Co-ordinator
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The Bridge School
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Technology

• Ask not what you can do for technology but what
  technology can do for you

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Vision

• Technology to support Teaching and learning is at
  the core
• What does that look like?
• Engagement,
• Inclusion,
• Achievement,
• Excitement,
• Motivation

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Strategic Leadership and Management of ICT
putting the vision into practice

• Commitment from Senior Leadership

Head Teacher
Senior Leader as ICT Co-ordinator
Technical Support
Inspired Teachers
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• Senior leader needs to have Knowledge and
  understanding, time, technical support within the
  school
• Strategic management of ICT but should start with
  one thing to ensure success
• Senior Leadership Team should take control of the
  technology to go through process with each piece
  of technology in turn
• Look at the piece of hardware and understand what
  it can do
• Good schools keep an eye on what is available
• Overview of worldwide technology but select with
  regard to what is best for the children

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How to ensure that the ICT Co-ordinator has
knowledge?

• Use the BECTA ICT framework to provide an audit
  towards the gaining the ICT mark
• Network with colleagues from other schools
• Use the ICT Register to ask questions
• Get on mailing list of ICT companies
• Visit other schools to see good practice
• Read Ofsted reports
• Visit the Bett show
• Attend ICT conferences

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Technical Support

• Senior leadership should ask the question
• Do they want the Co-ordinator to mend and
  maintain the technology or do they want someone
  who can teach and lead the ICT curriculum?

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• Can they then afford not to then have a
  technician?
• ICT co-ordinator must drive the policy and
  practice and not the technician.
• Technician should be managed by the ICT
  Co-ordinator

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Inspiring Teachers

• Inspire teachers to see it as a powerful tool
• Take them out of school to observe good practice
  or show them examples through DVDs
• Then train in how to use it for teaching and
  learning

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Evaluation

• Success criteria should be clearly linked to the
  School Improvement Plan

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Celebrate success

• Peer mentoring link talented ICT people with
  teachers who need further support
• Use OLE to up load good lessons
• High priority for staff meetings and PD days

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Videos and photos
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Parental Engagement in Learning

• Parental engagement has been driven by the point
  to which we have got to as a school
• ICT is a tool but does not replace face to face
  meetings with parents
• Digital Lockers
• Parents courses
• Texts to parents

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The Future
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Any questions?