1. How to improve your primary school using Becta's self-review framework
BETT 2007
Philippa Lee

2. Key areas Why it is needed? What is the self-review framework?
What are the benefits for schools?
How can schools use it?
What are the benefits of the online tool?
Celebrating success: ICT Mark & ICT Excellence Awards
What you need to do next.

3. Key areas Why it is needed? What is the self-review framework?
What are the benefits for schools?
How can schools use it?
What are the benefits of the online tool?
Celebrating success: ICT Mark & ICT Excellence Awards
What you need to do next.

4. Where are we with ICT?
The gap between the best and the worst is unacceptably wide and increasing.
In the most outstanding examples, ICT is starting to have a pervasive impact on the way teachers teach and children learn.
As yet the government’s aim for ICT to become embedded in the work of schools is a reality in only a small minority.

5. Achieving change - How far have we got?
Spectrum of e-enablement by schools type
Late adopters
Ambivalent
Enthusiastic
e-enabled
Sample size (N)
Primary schools 7%
44%
39%
10%
118
Secondary schools
11%
41%
34%
14% 85
Special schools
16%
35%
33% 43
All schools and colleges
13%
36%
40%
345
Source: DfES/PwC

6. Dimensions of change Vision Skills Incentives Resources Action plans
Jacqueline S. Thousand & Richard A. Villa
Managing Complex Change; 2001
Vision
Skills
Incentives
Resources
Action plans
Success
Skills
Incentives
Resources
Action plans
Confusion
Vision
Incentives
Resources
Action plans
Anxiety
Vision
Skills
Resources
Action plans
Slow change
Vision
Skills
Incentives
Action plans
Frustration
Vision
Skills
Incentives
Resources
False starts

7. What is it all about?
“(Becta’s) self-review framework isn’t just about ICT and, interestingly, that is a key factor of its success. It focuses the mind on the whole spectrum of school development.”
Steve Gater – Headteacher, Walker Technology College

8. Key areas Why it is needed? What is the self-review framework?
What are the benefits for schools?
How can schools use it?
What are the benefits of the online tool?
Celebrating success: ICT Mark & ICT Excellence Awards
What you need to do next.

9. Self-review framework
Developed and supported by all national agencies
100 professionals contributed to its development
Building on the work of Ofsted’s Common Evaluation Framework
Online self review tool with:
action planning
links to support materials
benchmarking
evidence examples
linked to ICT Mark accreditation.
Using the framework has enabled us to identify our strengths and provide a clear direction and pathway for us to follow
Jeff Smith, Headteacher, Anson Primary School

10. Developing the framework
Leadership and management
NCSL
Curriculum
Strategies
Learning and teaching
Becta
Assessment
QCA
Professional development
TDA
Extending opportunities for learning
Resources
Impact on pupil outcomes
Ofsted

11. The elements of the self-review framework
The curriculum
Impact on the
learner
Professional
development
Learning & teaching
Assessment
Resources
Extending
opportunities
for learning
Leadership and management

12. Strategy in place Nothing in place Coherence Made a start Aspirational
Leadership and management
Curriculum
Learning and teaching
Assessment
Professional development
Extending opportunities for learning
Resources
Impact on pupil outcomes 5 4 3 2 1
Coherence
Strategy in place
Nothing in place
Made a start
Aspirational
E-Mature

13. To view or download the video of Niel McLean, Executive Director, Institutional Development at Becta, talking about Becta’s self-review framework, please go to:

14. Key areas Why it is needed? What is the self-review framework?
What are the benefits for schools?
How can schools use it?
What are the benefits of the online tool?
Celebrating success: ICT Mark & ICT Excellence Awards
What you need to do next.

15. Benefits - it helps a school decide:
where you are in your whole school improvement and ICT development
how well you are doing compared to others
where you want to go - aspirations
what good looks like and how you can achieve it
what actions to prioritise
where you may need support.

16. Benefits for a primary school
To view or download this video, please go to:
Rob Hazelgrove, Headteacher,
St Loys Primary School, Northants

17. Benefits of the process
“The self-review framework … has enabled all the staff, not just the ICT specialists, to understand where we are going strategically. It has brought us together and consolidated the whole vision for the school.”
Roger Whittall, Headteacher, Westwood School

18. Benefits for a secondary school
To view or download this video, please go to:
Roger Whittall, Headteacher
Westwood College, a Technology School, Coventry

19. Benefits - Quotes from school leaders
“The self-review framework has taught us to focus in on what we need. It is a quick and easy way to evaluate ourselves and the school.”
Lisa Edwards, Kings Rise Community Primary School
“Suggested actions are a great starting point which enabled us to develop our own actions which were more customised to our school”
Gina O Connor, Deputy Headteacher, Westwood School
“The framework allows us to make judgements on how we are moving pupils forward in the use of ICT”
Balwant Bains, Head of Student achievement, Westwood School

20. Key areas Why it is needed? What is the self-review framework?
What are the benefits for schools?
How can schools use it?
What are the benefits of the online tool?
Celebrating success: ICT Mark & ICT Excellence Awards
What you need to do next.

21. To view or download this video, please go to: http://events.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?resID=28289

22. To view or download this video, please go to: http://events.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?resID=28287

24. Key areas Why it is needed? What is the self-review framework?
What are the benefits for schools?
How can schools use it?
What are the benefits of the online tool?
Celebrating success: ICT Mark & ICT Excellence Awards
What you need to do next.

29. Benefits from using the online tool
To view or download this video, please go to:
Steve Gater, Walker Technology College, Newcastle

30. Since the launch… Over 4,500 schools already using the online tools
Interesting patterns of use emerging

31. Key areas Why it is needed? What is the self-review framework?
What are the benefits for schools?
How can schools use it?
What are the benefits of the online tool?
Celebrating success: ICT Mark & ICT Excellence Awards
What you need to do next.

32. Over 100 Assessors registered
National ICT Mark …
Demonstrates commitment to continual improvement through ICT
Based on schools own review using the self-review framework
Nationally agreed standards and threshold
Externally assessed
Apply for assessment when ready
Small charge for assessor time
Register of accredited assessors
Over 100 Assessors registered
637 ICT Mark schools

33. Celebrating success

34. Key areas Why it is needed? What is the self-review framework?
What are the benefits for schools?
How can schools use it?
What are the benefits of the online tool?
Celebrating success: ICT Mark & ICT Excellence Awards
What you need to do next.

36. Register by What you do next Filling in the form or
Visiting the Becta stand
Using a sign-up pod

37. Thank you Philippa Lee philippa.lee@becta.org.uk