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Transcript of Removing barriers raising achievement for everyone Top Ten Teamwork Tower Hamlets College.
removing barriers raising achievement for everyone
How we used ILT in the process of inspection…
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removing barriers raising achievement for everyone
An improving College:• Success rates on all long courses at all levels (16-18 and 19+) are above GFE benchmarks
• League tables show we are the top FE College in London for level 3 points scores and the fifth most improved in the country
• APS increased by 50% to 196.1, 50 points above the London FE average, 370 into HE, 5 to Cambridge, 6 to UCL
• Access to HE courses success 12% above regional average
• Overall achievement (including more external accreditation ) up
8% in Skills for Life
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Whole college grades:Educational & Social Inclusion Outstanding (1)
Student Support & Guidance Outstanding (1)
Leadership and Management Outstanding (1)
Lesson observation grades:
Good or better 70%
Satisfactory 27%
Less than satisfactory 3%
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Curriculum grades Sciences and Mathematics Grade 2 – Good
(Maths contributory Grade 1 - Outstanding) Business Grade 2 – Good Information & Communications Technology Grade 2 – Good Hairdressing & Beauty Therapy Grade 3 – Satisfactory Health, Social Care & Public Services Grade 2 – Good Visual & Performing Arts and Media Grade 2 – Good Humanities Grade 2 – Good Learning Difficulties & Disabilities Grade 3 – Satisfactory ESOL Grade 2 – Good Literacy & Numeracy Grade 1 – Outstanding
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How ILQ helped with Inspection…
ILQ Development Plan and strategy derived from whole college ILT strategy
Interview training/SAR discussions with consultants across all programme and service areas
Lesson observation training for all teaching staff
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More…
CIS Superusers scheme Head of ILQ audited all schemes of work and course reviews in
each programme area Internal Quality Reviews in all college areas
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Yet more…
Peer and managers observations inc. LELOP
5 annual x-college staff development days. Over 150 sessions attended by over 500 staff
'sharing good practice'
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ILT… Pro-active ILT developments, systems and
skills for a number of years e.g. not just prior to inspection - including:
VLE/Curriculum Web ILT Leaders/ILQ Team ILT Training – OCR Diploma – TALWILT Ongoing investment in classroom and central
ILT kit e.g. IWB’s Digital Cameras
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ILT…VLE/Curweb
Early adoptors of WebCT – some success but realised wasn’t going to foster cross-curriculum sharing
Built curweb for this purpose easy to use and contribute with ethos of sharing externally too
http://www.tower.ac.uk/curweb
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ILT…ILT Leaders
First year 2hrs remission – thereafter 5hrs - most programme areas covered
Wide range of projects - all leaders project managed and contracted to deliver team based and cross-college staff development sessions.
http://www.tower.ac.uk/curweb/ILT/default.asp?page=202
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ILT…ILT Training/Staff Development
OCR Diploma in ICT for Teachers and Trainers – level 4
Teaching And Learning With ILT (TALWILT) level 3
Long history of staff dev including bite size and one to one support
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ILT…Kit
Ongoing investment in kit – systems, classroom based and central resources – including well equipped training rooms
Strategy to equip classrooms with full kit e.g. IWB + Data Proj + Fixed PC + amplified audio/video/DVD
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ILT…But!
RSC pre-inspection health check produced some worrying results:Some things we knew we were doing well were missed (by ILT Experts!) and some of our colleagues weren’t doing themselves or us justice e.g. “no we don’t have an intranet”