Matthew Poyiadgi

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Matthew Poyiadgi Regional Director CompTIA UK
Marie Taylor Group Manager Skills Microsoft
Education Group
Terry Watts Chief Operations Officer e-skills UK
Colin Biddulph ITQ LSC Project Director
Cathy Morgan Ofsted HMI and DFES Standards Unit
Mak Sharma CISCO Centre Manager for Networks
and Communications
Andy Stittle ICT Business Development
CoVE Cornwall College
OCR, Ed Excel City and Guilds
Terry Killer Skills Development Microsoft
Education Group
CCNT
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The ICT Post-16 Curriculum Conference 20 May
2004 Improving Teaching Learning in ICT
Cathy Morgan DfES Standards Unit
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Improving Teaching Learning in ICT

• - Success for All overview
• ICT Project Background context
• Four strands
• Phase 1 Trial sites
• Phase 1 Aims
• Phase 1 Topics
• Expert group
• Next steps

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The Strategy Launched 19 November 2002
LSC leads on Themes 1 4
DfES Standards Unit leads on Themes 2 3
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Theme 2 The Priorities

• Four Priority curriculum areas in 2003 business
  studies, construction, science and Entry to
  Employment (e2e)
• Priority curriculum areas in 2004 maths, ICT,
  health social care and land-based FE Training

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Theme 2 The Approach
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Theme 2 -Approach

• Reflective communities conferences, one-to-one
  coaching, seminars, regional events
• Working through others LSC, Inspectorates,
  SSCs, CoVES, Beacons, ABSSU, LSDA
• Champions secondees consultants, trials
  pilots, Standards Unit Regional network

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Theme 2 - Achievements

• Business Studies
• CPD Differentiation
• Topic marketing customer services
• Levels 2,3,4
• Construction
• Health and Safety
• Levels 1 2
• Link to CoVEs
• CPD didactic ? interactive

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Theme 2 - Achievements

• Science
• Focus level 3 hotspots
• Physics algebra for physicists
• Chemistry enthalpy
• Biology molecules
• CPD assessment for learning
• Entry to Employment (E2E)
• New Foundation Level programme
• Pathfinders
• Diagnosing learner need personal/social
  development
• Training and support materials

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Phase Two CurriculumAreas Initial Focus

• Mathematics activity-based approaches to
  learning at
• levels 2 and 3 (eg, indices and logs).
• Health social care linking practical work in
• placements to theory at levels 1 to 3.
• ICT improving the teaching of aspects of
  database
• theory at levels 1 to 3.
• Land-based studies the transportation of
  animals.

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Teaching quality varies by curriculum area
Per cent of colleges graded unsatisfactory
Based on 165 inspections
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Inspection 03/04 to 20 May 2004Confidential
ICT

• 86 grades 95 grades
• 03/04 02/03
• Grade 1 3 1
• Grade 2 36 38
• Grade 3 56 51
• Grade 4 7 10
• Lesson observations
• Graded good or better
• teaching 63 61
• learning 62 59
• attainment 53 51
• 6.4
  unsatisfactory 7
• 30 out of 1509 lessons graded 1
• 98 out of 1509 lessons graded 5, 6 7

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The ICT Strategy
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Trial Sites
Derby College
Wormwood Scrubs
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Approach to the project

• Feedback from providers
• Normalisation
• Systems analysis
• Fetch Execute Reset cycle
• Industrial links
• Networking / OSI
• Project planning
• Hardware software

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Aims

• developing and trialling materials to support
  innovative
• approaches to the teaching and learning of
  ICT theory
• supporting named individuals in the development
  of skills
• and techniques needed to maximise the use of
  new materials
• evaluating the effectiveness of tools and
  techniques
• used in terms of student feedback and
  achievement
• contributing to the production of multimedia
  professional
• development materials which will take these
  and other
• strategies and materials into all sector ICT
  providers.

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Timeline
September 2004
September 2005
September 2003
July 2004
January 2004
May 2004
January 2005
May 2005
January 2006
May 2006
Phase 1 Priority Curriculum Areas
ICT
Phase 2 Priority Curriculum Areas
Phase 3 Priority Curriculum Areas
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ICT Expert Group

• The role of the expert groups will be to act as
  intermediary
• between the Standards Unit and providers of
  learning, to
• ensure adequate consultation with all
  partners on the
• proposals.
• Expert Group members will be asked to provide
  advice and
• comment on emerging proposals and to seek the
  views
• of the bodies they represent.

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Next steps

• Multimedia company produce Pilot Materials for
• launch on 6 July 2004
• 40 pilot sites identified includes 13 trial
  sites,
• FE SFC, ACL, School sixth forms, WBL
  Prisons
• Multimedia company refine materials produce
• electronic versions at all 3 levels
• National roll-out July September 2005

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Cathy Morgan cmorgan_at_ofsted.gov.uk Susan
Burn susan.burn_at_dfes.gsi.gov.uk Lawrence
Fry lawrence.fry_at_dfes.gsi.gov.uk

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Matthew Poyiadgi Regional Director CompTIA UK
Marie Taylor Group Manager Skills Microsoft
Education Group
Terry Watts Chief Operations Officer e-skills UK
Colin Biddulph ITQ LSC Project Director
Cathy Morgan Ofsted HMI and DFES Standards Unit
Mak Sharma CISCO Centre Manager for Networks
and Communications
Andy Stittle ICT Business Development
CoVE Cornwall College
OCR, Ed Excel City and Guilds
Terry Killer Skills Development Microsoft
Education Group
CCNT
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Matthew Poyiadgi Regional Director CompTIA UK
Marie Taylor Group Manager Skills Microsoft
Education Group
Terry Watts Chief Operations Officer e-skills UK
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Colin Biddulph ITQ LSC Project Director
Cathy Morgan Ofsted HMI and DFES Standards Unit
Mak Sharma CISCO Centre Manager for Networks
and Communications
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Andy Stittle ICT Business Development
CoVE Cornwall College
OCR, Ed Excel City and Guilds
Terry Killer Skills Development Microsoft
Education Group
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CCNT