Experiences of the Warwickshire e -learning

Community Project

Lynne TanseyWarwickshire 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.”

Windows 2003

& VLE

Switch

WarwickshireBroadband

Network

PortalActive

Directory

VLE

ExistingSchool

Network

Backup

WAN Centre

CISCO AIRONET 350 SERIES

WIRELESS ACCESS POINT

Internet100 Mb/slink

Home accessTeacher Toolkit

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

resourcesImproving 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 - 2005

Key lessons learntCommunication

• 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 I CT

Developing Curriculum enhancing

Evolving I ndependent, discriminating, discerning use of I CT

I ntegrating Curriculum embedding

Transforming Curriculum Exploitation

I mprovement

2 to 3 Years Time

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.”