Department of Education Capacity Building Programme RTU Conference for Vice Principals 16 th November 2011

Team

• Gillian Boyd • Neil McCormick • Clare Evans • Brenda Montgomery • David Ryan and Norma Price DE/ETI administration DE/SELB DE/SEELB DE/BELB 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

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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 Share practice Measuring quality Sharing learning Establish networks DE and RCSLT resources 45 40 29 28 48 Good 43 43 45 46 37 Fair 4 9 13 17 5 Poor 0 0 1 0 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

Evaluations

Excellent Good Fair 1 Info on CB prog. re context of school improvement 179 2 Monitor and evaluate L & M for SEN 188 179 188 17 12 3 Share good practice 214 137 9 Poor 0 0 0

RTU Summer School Capacity Building for Inclusion Excellent Very good Good Fair Poor Objectives met 14

Worthwhile

13 Enjoyable 8 Relevant 12 22 20 22 20 10 12 15 12 1 1 2 3 0 1 0 0

RTU Summer School 2011 The self-evaluative SENCo Excellent Very Good Good Fair Objectives met worthwhile 33 34 Enjoyable 33 Relevance 38 23 23 21 18 3 2 5 2 0 0 0 0

Capacity Building – SENCO Conferences

Date

17 October 2011 21 October 2011 25 October 2011 26 October 2011

Venue

Fortwilliam Resource Centre Newry Teachers Centre Antrim Board Centre North West Teachers Centre

Attended Eval Recd

51 44 79 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

1 2 3

Excellent

40% 50% 34%

Good

46% 43% 48%

Fair

9% 5% 10%

Poor

0% 0% 1%

No Reply

5% 2% 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

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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

Networking Count, Read Succeed Effective Use of Data Literacy Using the Resource File Numeracy

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?