Targets, Assessment, Intervention, Progress: Our progress with MyProgress

Our Progress with My Progress

•3,300 placements per year

•600 settings, 1,000 mentors

•550 students per year - 3 year undergraduate & postgraduate routes

•120 days minimum school experience during their programme

•2 professional competency frameworks ( Initial teacher training Qualified Teacher Standards, Early Years Teacher Standards)

•Ofsted inspected

•processing approximately 30,000 data items (qualitative and quantitative)

School of Education

2013: What we wantedTrainees + University Tutors +

School based mentors

• Timely intervention – retention• Student progress and target tracking• Ofsted• Paperless, but not reduction in staff

2013: What we wantedTrainees + University Tutors +

School based mentors

• Interface with University systems• Usability, language, training• Available on and off-line usage• Price & Contract support• We could build own reports• Deliver in tight timescales• System that will models what trainees will do when

qualified with their own pupils

Pen Portrai

ts, References

QL- student record

database

CRM – Settings, Mentors

and Placements

My Progress-School

experience & tutorials

Assessment tool

How My Progress is used• Target Setting – long and short term. From

interview through to final placement and first destination

• Assessment – against targets, professional competency frameworks, risk setting assessments, weekly grades

• Intervention – mentor, PAT, trainee. Via comments, blogs, email

• Progress – Record of Professional Development, targets being met, weekly reporting, pen portrait

Setting up My Progress

My Progress – New for 2015

• Record of Professional Developments • Placement risk assessment• Teaching Audits• Time sheets• First Destination• Ofsted pen portraits

User adoption

• Tablet and smart phone App and Website• Some make notes and upload the information

later• Off line usage ( App)• Trainee led• No upfront mentor profile creation• Non completion reports

What Northampton users like about MyProgress

• Ease of target setting• Increased communication• Information all in one place, and can see progress in

schools• Robustness of weekly meetings• See own progress• Prefer to paper• Accessible at home• Fast and clear• Succinct target setting

Reflections on our first year with My Progress

• No need to provide student devices• Have provided mobile devices for tutors• Think about reporting first- helps cohort

structures• Offer a mix of training . User guides/video /f2f• Still need administration resource• Mentor adoption tricky• Interfaces with University systems. It takes time.• Reflection time• Print off documents

Our Progress with My Progress

https://northampton.mkmapps.com/myprogress/