Services

Working in partnership with schools

Embedding ICT across the curriculum - Interactive WhiteboardsLogotron’s approach to supporting children’s learning is traditionally based on working in partnership with schools to develop an imaginative and rich curriculum, as part of raising standards and improving the quality of education.

In continuing this philosophy, the Logotron School Improvement Service provides schools with a range of consultancy support programmes in ICT, as schools increasingly manage their own improvement and self evaluation.

During recent years, the primary and secondary national strategies have increasingly encouraged schools to evaluate their own performance. The new Ofsted inspection system is directing schools to not only diagnose their own strengths and weaknesses, but, more crucially, to do something to bring about school improvement. More and more schools are finding themselves in the position of having to identify the support and continuing professional development they need to do this.

Embedding ICT across the curriculum - Interactive Whiteboards

A personalised approach

Key to our service is the emphasis we place on tailoring support to audited need. Logotron’s hands-on approach to school improvement provides a programme of support for the whole school development of ICT, ranging from support for senior leaders in developing ICT strategies to practical support for the classroom teacher. This is in planned response to national feedback from government organisations that confirm a continuing widespread need for support in schools to:

  • Develop good strategic leadership of ICT, so that head teachers can present a clear vision and work with colleagues to develop effective practice when trying out new ways of working with ICT
  • Develop ICT as a subject to increase the number of pupils who achieve well in ICT, and to improve teacher assessment of ICT
  • Embed ICT to support and enhance teaching and learning across the whole curriculum.

Our portfolio of services includes:

  • Support for embedding ICT in teaching and learning across the curriculum, for planning ICT into subject schemes of work, and practical support for teachers in the classroom.
  • Support for the development of ICT as a subject at KS1 and KS2, for developing an appropriate ICT curriculum, for planning and assessment, using and adapting national schemes and strategies to suit individual needs.
  • Support for the development of ICT capability at KS3 in line with the secondary national strategy. ICT as a subject at KS3 is an improving picture, but, nationally, there remain key issues, including the number of non specialist ICT teachers in secondary schools, the accuracy of teacher assessment of ICT, and ICT across the curriculum.
  • Embedding ICT across the curriculum - Interactive WhiteboardsSupport for school self review and the development of the e-confident school. A key part of our work from April 2006 will be the provision of support for the new national ICT Self Review Framework [SRF] and accredited ICT Mark. The SRF will be inextricably linked with whole school improvement, and information gathered for it will feed into the Ofsted Self Evaluation Framework. The ICT Mark will provide a nationally agreed standard in ICT and aims to show a school’s commitment to continual improvement through ICT.
  • Interactive whiteboards - Do your teachers need support in developing basic whiteboard skills and the use of whiteboards across the curriculum?
  • Do any of your teachers or teaching assistants need basic ICT skills training so that they feel confident to support their pupils’ use of ICT in the classroom?
  • Control and monitoring - Do you need help to develop this? This is one of the hardest areas for schools to cover, and in the latest 2004/5 Ofsted HMI annual report, control is still highlighted as the area of the ICT curriculum that is most frequently the weakest.

BESA ICT in UK Schools Survey Survey 2005

“Interactive Whiteboards are of great importance to over three quarters of primary and half of secondary schools.”

Who do we support in schools?

  • Head teachers (support for developing an overall ICT strategy, self evaluation auditing ICT, tailoring staff support to need)
  • ICT subject leaders, including those new to the role (support for planning, assessment, ICT schemes of work, and developing ICT subject knowledge)
  • Subject leaders (identifying when, when not and how to use ICT effectively in subjects to enhance pupils’ learning, planning and ICT skills development)
  • Teaching assistants (ICT skills training, support for curriculum software and current priorities)
  • Subject teachers in the classroom (working alongside the teacher to give confidence and skills/software training)

Learning, Teaching and Managing with ICT 2006-07
– Department for Education and Skills

“A confident and skilled workforce that understands when and how to use the technology available to them ensures that the full potential of ICT investments, including broadband connectivity and software….are fully realised, enhancing the learning experience for all pupils.”

How do we support schools?

Embedding ICT across the curriculum - Interactive WhiteboardsSupport can be tailored to need as identified by schools, and can therefore be school based or centrally based, by the day, half-day or hourly. It can therefore be:

  • On a one to one basis
  • At departmental level
  • Part of a staff meeting
  • Part of a school training day
  • Part of a school cluster or pyramid event

Pricing (Includes expenses and travel)

  • Day from £425
  • Half Day from £250
  • Twilight from £185

For further information, to book some support, or for a chat about what your needs might be contact:

Logotron Ltd,
124 Cambridge Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge, CB4 0ZS.
Tel: +44 (0)1223 425558 ext 795 • Fax: +44 (0)1223 425349
Email: sales@logo.com • Web: www.logo.com