Experiences of the Warwickshire e -learning Community Project Lynne Tansey Warwickshire County Council 22nd February 2006

Project Overview Awarded Pathfinder Status for PFI/ICT Initiative – 2003 Contract Signed March 2004 Scope –All pupils from Year 5 to Year 11 in 180 Schools –1,500 Teachers –Focus English, Mathematics, Science, Geography, History, ICT, Modern Foreign Languages.

“Our vision is of schools staffed by confident, trained practitioners using classrooms equipped with dependable, exciting technology to raise attainment and encourage positive and independent attitudes to learning. The legacy for the future will be improved standards of achievement, a collaborative and skilled work force of teachers and support staff, an outstanding pool of resources, skills and knowledge and an appetite for learning.”

Warwickshire Learning Platform - Portal

Warwickshire Learning Platform - VTLE

Other Elements Comprehensive range of digital resources Professional Development Programme for Staff.

Benefits For Learners –Richer, more engaging and motivational content –Opportunities for personalised learning –Working Anytime-Anywhere For Teachers –Help deliver higher quality, interactive teaching –Reduce lesson preparation time –Opportunities for collaboration & sharing resources Improving standards and attainment

Evidence of Success so far! Teachers “It has made it easier to organise my teaching.” “The pupils are more engaged in the lessons” Pupils “The lessons are more fun.” “It makes it easier for me to understand.” “I wish all my lessons were like this.”

Evidence of Progress Involvement in the ‘We-learn Project’ has had a positive influence on the ethos and culture of the school... Ofsted 2006 Use of the ‘We-learn Teacher Toolkits’ has led to outstanding improvement in Teaching and Learning HMI

Key lessons learnt Communication Effective and frequent consultation with stakeholders will lead to a better understanding of what you are trying to achieve. Engaging with the stakeholder to enable them to have ownership of the shared vision Change management How will teachers and pupils become competent and confident users of any ‘new’ technologies ? Don’t under estimate the challenge of culture change within a school

Familiarising Procedural use of ICT Developing Curriculum enhancing Evolving Independent, discriminating, discerning use of ICT Integrating Curriculum embedding Transforming Curriculum Exploitation Improvement 2 to 3 YearsTime ICT Adoption Model (Hooper & Reiber) Teaching; Theory in Practice, Hooper & Reiber 1996 Familiarising Procedural use of ICT Developing Curriculum enhancing Evolving Independent, discriminating, discerning use of ICT Integrating Curriculum embedding Transforming Curriculum Exploitation Improvement 2 to 3 YearsTime ICT Adoption Model (Hooper & Reiber) Teaching; Theory in Practice, Hooper & Reiber 1996 Familiarising Procedural use of ICT Developing Curriculum enhancing Evolving Independent, discriminating, discerning use of ICT Integrating Curriculum embedding Transforming Curriculum Exploitation Improvement 2 to 3 YearsTime ICT Adoption Model (Hooper & Reiber) Teaching; Theory in Practice, Hooper & Reiber 1996 Familiarising Procedural use of ICT Developing Curriculum enhancing Evolving Independent, discriminating, discerning use of ICT Integrating Curriculum embedding Transforming Curriculum Exploitation Improvement 2 to 3 YearsTime ICT Adoption Model (Hooper & Reiber) Teaching; Theory in Practice, Hooper & Reiber 1996

“Our vision is of schools staffed by confident, trained practitioners using classrooms equipped with dependable, exciting technology to raise attainment and encourage positive and independent attitudes to learning. The legacy for the future will be improved standards of achievement, a collaborative and skilled work force of teachers and support staff, an outstanding pool of resources, skills and knowledge and an appetite for learning.”