Department of EducationCapacity Building Programme

RTU Conference for

Vice Principals

16th November 2011

Team

• Gillian Boyd DE/ETI

• Neil McCormick administration

• Clare Evans DE/SELB

• Brenda Montgomery DE/SEELB

• David Ryan DE/BELB

and Norma Price C2k

Workshop

• What challenges do schools have?

• What professional development would they value?

• How would they prefer the professional development to be offered?

They said ….

• Dissemination of good practice –within and beyond school,

• cluster groups, • knowledge of effective, practical strategies, • free resources, • need for whole school approach.

Using resources

• ICT (£500m investment)

• Examples of outstanding leadership and management for SEN

• Principal/Teacher/SENCO skill and expertise

Communication across the Boundaries DE/RCSLT

Excellent Good Fair Poor

Share practice 45 43 4 0Measuring quality 40 43 9 0Sharing learning 29 45 13 1Establish networks 28 46 17 0DE and RCSLT resources

48 37 5 0

Leadership and Management conferences

• March 23 – St Colman’s PS, Belfast• March 24 – Middletown Centre for Autism• March 25 – Antrim Board Centre• March 29 – Strule Centre, Omagh• March 30 – Killard School, Donaghedee• March 31 - Nursery schools, Knockbracken• June ‘’ North West TC

EvaluationsExcellent Good Fair Poor

1 Info on CB prog. re context of school improvement

179 179 17 0

2 Monitor and evaluate L & M for SEN

188 188 12 0

3 Share good practice

214 137 9 0

RTU Summer SchoolCapacity Building for Inclusion

Excellent Very good Good Fair Poor

Objectives met

14 22 10 1 0

Worthwhile 13 20 12 1 1

Enjoyable 8 22 15 2 0

Relevant 12 20 12 3 0

RTU Summer School 2011The self-evaluative SENCo

Excellent Very Good Good Fair

Objectives met

33 23 3 0

worthwhile 34 23 2 0

Enjoyable 33 21 5 0

Relevance 38 18 2 0

Capacity Building – SENCO Conferences

Date Venue Attended Eval Recd

17 October 2011 Fortwilliam Resource Centre

51

21 October 2011 Newry Teachers Centre

44

25 October 2011 Antrim Board Centre 79

26 October 2011 North West Teachers Centre

45

Capacity Building – SENCO Conferences

1. To participate in workshops on improving provision for literacy and numeracy for children with SEN in your school;

2. To consider the benefits of the effective use of data for school improvement;

3. To highlight the effective practice of the SENCO.

Key Data - Summary

Objective Excellent Good Fair Poor No Reply

1 40% 46% 9% 0% 5%2 50% 43% 5% 0% 2%3 34% 48% 10% 1% 7%

98% Described the conferences as either ‘Very

Helpful’ or ‘Helpful.

View/listen on LNI – capacity building

Benefits of the conference

“Make me think about how to best go about capacity building in my own school”.

“Brilliant just to have ‘time’ to reflect on our current practice and hear examples of good practice”

“Consider to use and benefit of baseline testing to show improvement.”

Elements to impact on policy and practice in your school

“More effective use of data to inform teaching”

“Implementing a range of strategies to support pupils with learning difficulties – one size does not fit all!”

“Disseminate information received to principal and BOG to ensure that SEN children remain effectively supported and enabled to realise their capacities as identified in ESAGS and Count, read: succeed.”

Resource File for SEN

• Dissemination of very good/outstanding practice

• Broad range of contributors – teachers, Senco, principals, ELB, Middletown, ETI, Stranmillis, St Mary’s, UU, DES, RCSLT

• IME

Resource for Early Years

• BELB

• Supplemented by play/communication by Clare Evans

• IME

Leadership ideas• Whole School PRSD Approach:

– Each teacher takes a chapter;– Reads, learns, follows up on resources and

links;– Pilots strategies in own teaching;– Undertakes to disseminate to whole staff;– Agrees to act as ‘capacity builder’ for other

staff.

Ideas• Whole School PRSD Approach – Large

School– Departments or groups of teachers take a

chapter / number of chapters;– Reads, learns, follows up on resources and links;– Pilots strategies in own teaching and discusses at

departmental meetings;– Undertakes to disseminate to whole staff;– Acts as ‘capacity builder’ for other staff.

Ideas

• Learning Support Team approach

– School establishes Learning Support Team • Member of SMT, SENCO, Interested Teachers,

Classroom Assistants;• Undertake Capacity Building akin to that outlined

previously;• May focus initially on the needs of pupils you have.

Every School a Good School

Workshop

• Think about the implications for you as a Vice principal for building capacity in your school?

• What would you focus on?• How would you organise capacity

building?