21st century learning:moving forwardAre you ready to meet the challenge?21st century learning:

moving forwardAre you ready to meet the challenge?

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21st century teaching and learning:CLC -Helping you on your journey

21st century teaching and learningReviewing your organisation

21st Century Learning and Teaching needs a whole school approach. In order for schools to be ready tomeet the challenge they will need to go review where they currently are and plan for the future. Ourservice can advise on how schools can improve in any of the six key areas of school development.

• Does ICT provide high-quality experiencesacross the whole curriculum?

Does planning always takeaccount of, and build on,pupils’ prior ICT attainment?

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Is e-safety an integral partof all planning?

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• Is ICT as an integral and naturalpart of learning and teachingacross all curriculum areas?

• Is ICT being used to engagepupils and to achieve higher levelthinking skills?

• Do teachers regularly review theuse of ICT within their lessons?

Leadership andManagement

• Does your school have avision for technology inlearning and teaching?

• Does your vision meet theneeds of the wider schoolcommunity?

Planning Learning

• Do staff have the necessaryICT competencies?

Is there a school culture ofstaff self-review?

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Is ICT professionaldevelopment systematicallyand rigorously evaluated?

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• Does your school haveimaginative and varied learningand teaching resources?

Assessment

• Is the use of ICT across theschool assessed andrecorded rigorously?

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Are staff able to engage inhigh-quality, detaileddialogue with pupils abouttheir use of ICT?

Is self and peer assessmentused effectively to driveforward pupil performance?

Professional Development Resources

Is ICT embedded in thewider school culture?

• Is this vision shared by allstaff?

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Do staff have the relevantopportunities forprofessional development?

Is there systematic and widespreadmonitoring and evaluation of the useof ICT resources?

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• Has your school got a robustVirtual Learning Environment?

• Does your school have onlineresources for pupils, staff andparents?

Learning in the 21st century is undergoing radical change. All learners should have the confidence andcapability to learn all the time, wherever they are, whatever the setting.Our vision is that education needs to prepare learners of all ages to be able to take advantage of the re-sources available to them: the people, the places, the information and the tools that can help them to de-velop and enhance skills for learning and life.

The Birmingham CLC Service is the provider of choice forchange management activity, advisory, support and consultancyservices where ICT and learning technologies are aiding learn-ing, teaching and management of schools and education on thewhole. It is a powerful and effective institution helping to raisestandards and attainment in all Birmingham schools and beyond.It is integral to the function of the Transforming Education divi-sion, supporting the national Building Schools for the Future(BSF) and Primary Capital Programmes.We are experienced with working with different stakeholders toand cohere what factors influence progressive and impactingchange, and how best to harness them in a local and nationalcontexts.

21st century teaching and learning:Preparing the way

deliver greater flexibility andchoice of lessons andteaching techniques

• communicate information andconcepts clearly with highquality lessons and resources

• make learning exciting andengaging for all learners

provide adaptive solutions forlearners with special needs

create a learningenvironment where learnersfeel safe and secure

extend learning and work inpartnership with parents,

families and the community.

LEARNINGAND TEACHING

The CLC Service planned,resource and delivered 20 internetradio station kits to PrimarySchools.

Staff and pupils were trained upon using the software andhardware and podcasts wereplanned into the schoolcurriculum. Inspired by theproject, pupils created work whichraised their literacy attainment.

History students at a SecondarySchool created and populated acollaborative online guide to aMedieval village. This wasresearched and developed by thestudents and involved higherorder thinking skills.

After the project, studentscontinued to update the websiteoutside school hours asindependent, motivated learners.

The CLC Service delivered aprogramme of e-safety trainingfor staff at a special school forpupils with severe physical anddevelopmental needs . Theresources and delivery werespecially adapted to meet thespecific needs of the users.The school staff were given theskills to deliver the training topupils and parents to make theinitiative sustainable.

CASESTUDIES

ORGANISATIONALCHANGE

CASESTUDIES

Introducing ChangeChampions into a school is astrategy that the CLCService has successfullyintroduced to generatechange within anorganisation.These Change Championsare trained in the use oftechnology in the classroomand given appropriateresources. They then act asambassadors for the use oftechnology in education,meeting with otherchampions and cascadetraining.

Organisations need to embedtechnology to meet the needs oftheir learners and the needs ofthe country’s future. The CLCService has experience indelivering organisationalchange that has real andmeasurable impact.

• A vision

• Skills

• Incentive

21st century teachers ensureteaching is enhanced throughthe informed use of technology.The CLC Service provides be-spoke training that is directedto staff needs.

21st century teachers use ICT to:

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For change to work it needs:

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Working with Youth Workersand Looked-After youngpeople, the CLC Service ran aseries of multi-media workshopson movie-making, podcastingand digital music creation.Projects were entered intonational competitions and,because the skills are embedded,the initiative is ongoing.

The CLC Service is workingwith Birmingham’s ICTprovider to roll out the use ofVirtual Learning Environments(VLEs) city-wide.Meeting with schools, the CLCService plans a vision for its usewith Senior Management andthen draft an Action Plan for itsimplementation.By careful planning and closecollaboration the VLE isintroduced into whole schoolplanning and embedded acrossthe organisation.The CLC Service is also able tooffer follow-up support andresource creation.

The way schools and parentswork together is changing.

Traditional communications...

• Pupils brought a letter home intheir school bag.

• You found out at parents’evening about your child’sattendance record.

• You learned about achievementfrom the annual report.

Next Generation Learning...

• The school emails you directlywith important news.

• You get a text when your childachieves something really goodat school.

• You regularly follow your child’sprogress online.

Examples

The Radclyffe School in Oldham gives parentsonline access to information about their child.This covers academic progress, behaviour,attendance, punctuality and any specialeducational needs.

Parkfield Primary School in Birmingham usesits secure web site to keep parents in touchwith school and information.Teachers and children post and movie clips online to share and celebrate their learning.

As a service we have experience and can provide guidance and support with exploringhow technology can help and pupils work together.We understand that parents are a key partner in their child’ s learning.

21st century teaching and learning:Parents as partners supporting learning

48%Said they would liketo understanddifferent ways ofusing technology*

73%of parents think itsimportant to helptheir child withhomework*

* Schools and Parents: TheNew Partnership, 2009

88%of parents have foundtechnology helpful forgetting involved in theirchild’s education.*

21st century teaching and learning:Technology for all- narrowing the gap

educational guidance and tutorials

Having supported with the Home Access Programme in Birmingham we haveexperience in the benefits and barriers of laptops for pupils and families and canprovide support and training packages exploring how technology can help and pupilsaccess learning.

a monthly newsletter to keep families engaged and promote ideas on howto get the most out of their package.

a web presence and familiarisation training for all learners especially those with additional needs.

A critical element of thisprogramme is what happensafter families have receivedtheir laptops to help them tofully realise the benefits.

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21st century teaching and learning:future trends

Technology events Handheld Learning

The CLC service support schools involvedin the 14- 19 diploma qualifications. Theseare a re new set of qualification s whichprepare young people by helping them tolearn life skills that are important forwork, study and the future.

21st century teaching and learningwider impact

Education systems reflect and help to shape nationally, and cultures. The CLC serviceworks to understand education in these wider context, including its impact on individualsand national growth and its role in supporting life long learning.

Skills for the future

Values and attributes

A major part of the CLC's role involves research and development in the future techno-logical trends in education. This allows the flexibility to explore and react to futuretechnologies and the value they bring with supporting pedagogy , aligning policy topractice and supporting sustainable future learning.

The CLC as a Regional Training Centre(RTC) for ap-ple technologies held the fist showcase in the UK ofthe ipads to educators in Birmingham. This is a vitalpart of our service working with technology providersto review and test new technologies and advise or-ganisations on making choices that are for purpose,sustainable and impact on engagement and attain-ment.

Collaborative Technologies

The CLC service is involvedin action research using DSlites to raise attainment inModern Foreign Languagesand Numeracy in primary andsecondary schools.

The CLC service isresearching, developing andimplementing the use of ipodsand apps in teaching andlearning and the benefit toraising attainment in GCSEresults in secondary schools.

The CLC service works withschools to harness the use ofweb 2.0 technologies tofacilitate interactive informationsharing, interoperability anduser-centred design .

The CLC service supports and delivers services towider community groups supporting with widerpublic policy priorities of community engagementand cohesion.Through our support we develop and runprograms helping community service andcharities to develop the and attributes such ascreative thinking, team working, self-managementand effective participation that would help themsucceed in learning. and life .

Wendell Gopaul is an educationalist with over ten years experience in the UKeducation sector. He currently works with the Transforming Education De-partment in Birmingham and has been attached to the City Learning Centrefor the past four years supporting in the development of ICT and learningtechnologies across the whole curriculum in primary, secondary and highereducation organisations in England.He is an experienced advisor with extensive training and a proactive ap-proach, energy, drive and a vision in supporting aspirations of building 21stcentury schools and learners alike.Wendell has also worked in education in Trinidad and has a firm grasp of thebarriers to learning that exist and the know how to help transform educationfor the future.

Stephen Fessey has taught for over ten years and is passionate about the ef-fective use of technology within all aspects of education. He works closelywith leaders and teachers from primary, secondary and higher education or-ganisations to help them embed learning technologies effectively and pur-posefully.

Stephen works directly with school Heads, Senior Management and the LocalAuthority advisory service to assess their needs and priorities and to developICT-rich projects to enhance attainment, engagement and ultimately enhanceresults of pupils. He models, develops and embeds 21st century learningstrategies using best ICT practice and latest cutting edge technology in orderto achieve the best outcome for all stakeholders.

For further discussions and information to understand how our partnership canhelp meet your ambitions, please contact

Wendell GopaulEmail wendell@parkviewclc.bham.org.uk

wendell.gopaul@birmingham.gov.uk

Telephone +44(0)1214648106