How to improve your primary school using Becta's self-review framework BETT 2007 Philippa Lee
Mar 28, 2015
How to improve your primary school using Becta's self-review framework
BETT 2007
Philippa Lee
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.
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.
Where are we withWhere are we with ICT?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.
Achieving change - How far have we got?
Source: DfES/PwC
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% 16% 43
All schools and colleges 13% 36% 40% 11% 345
Dimensions of change
VisionVision SkillsSkills IncentivesIncentives ResourcesResources Action plansAction plans
VisionVision SkillsSkills IncentivesIncentives Action plansAction plans FrustrationFrustration
VisionVision SkillsSkills IncentivesIncentives ResourcesResources False startsFalse starts
VisionVision SkillsSkills ResourcesResources Action plansAction plans Slow changeSlow change
SkillsSkills IncentivesIncentives ResourcesResources Action plansAction plans ConfusionConfusion
VisionVision IncentivesIncentives ResourcesResources Action plansAction plans AnxietyAnxiety
SuccessSuccess
Jacqueline S. Thousand & Richard A. VillaManaging Complex Change; 2001
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
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.
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
Developing the framework
Leadership and management NCSL
Curriculum Strategies
Learning and teaching Becta
Assessment QCA
Professional development TDA
Extending opportunities for learning Becta
Resources Becta
Impact on pupil outcomes Ofsted
The elements of the self-review framework
Impact on the learner
The curriculum
Extending opportunities for learning
Learning & teaching
Assessment
Professional development
Resources
Leadership and management
Leadership and management
Curriculum
Learning and teaching
Assessment
Professional development
Extending opportunities for learning
Resources
Impact on pupil outcomes
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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: http://events.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?resID=28286
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.
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.
Benefits for a primary school
Rob Hazelgrove, Headteacher,
St Loys Primary School, Northants
To view or download this video, please go to: http://events.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?resID=28290
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
Benefits for a secondary school
Roger Whittall, Headteacher
Westwood College, a Technology School, Coventry
To view or download this video, please go to: http://events.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?resID=28291
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
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.
To view or download this video, please go to: http://events.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?resID=28289
To view or download this video, please go to: http://events.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?resID=28287
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.
Benefits from using the online tool
Steve Gater, Walker Technology College, Newcastle
To view or download this video, please go to: http://events.becta.org.uk/display.cfm?resID=28288
Since the launch…
• Over 4,500 schools already using the online tools
• Interesting patterns of use emerging
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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.
National ICT Mark …Demonstrates commitment to continual improvement through ICTBased on schools own review using the self-review frameworkNationally agreed standards and thresholdExternally assessed Apply for assessment when readySmall charge for assessor timeRegister of accredited assessors
Over 100 Assessors registered
637 ICT Mark schools
Celebrating success
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.
What you do next
Register by
• Filling in the form
or
• Visiting the Becta stand
or
• Using a sign-up pod