Hilary Moore

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Hilary Moore Regional Practitioner DfES,
Standards Unit
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Success for All

• LSC and DfES joint strategy
• Standards Unit established November 2002

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The Strategy Launched 19 November 2002
LSC leads on Themes 1 4
DfES Standards Unit leads on Themes 2 3
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Standards Unit Vision Values

• Transforming teaching, training learning and
  promoting excellence.
• Evidence-based - building on best practice.
• Working collaboratively.
• Embracing innovation e-learning.
• Ensuring robust evaluation.
• Improving the quality of leadership, management
  workforce development.
• Regional network supporting teaching learning
  and workforce development.

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Theme 3 The Strategy

• Targets for college teachers to be qualified
  90 full-time, 60 part-time by 2006. All except
  new entrants by 2010.
• Modernising pay, recruitment retention
  incentives.
• Strong leadership management via Centre for
  Excellence in Leadership.
• Improving Initial Teacher Training.

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Theme 2 The Strategy

• Tackling variable standards.
• Standards Unit staffed with sector expert
  practitioners and secondees.
• Identify, develop disseminate best practice
  learning materials training programmes in
  priority curriculum areas.
• Improved exploitation / integration of e-learning
  NLN Online to the learning skills sector.

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Teaching quality varies by curriculum area
Per cent of colleges marked unsatisfactory or
worse
Based on 165 inspections
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Theme 2 Principles

• Scaleable approaches.
• Creating "pull" (in marketing terms).
• And chain reactions.
• Leading to professional learning communities.
• And individual subject learning coaches
• Networks of expert practitioners and subject
  professions.
• With a sense of urgency to tackle poor practice.

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Theme 2 The Priorities

• Phase One curriculum areas business studies,
  construction, science Entry to Employment
  (e2e).
• Phase Two curriculum areas maths, health
  social care, ICT land-based studies.
• Phase Three Modern Foreign Languages,
  Engineering , ACL, ITT
• Small-scale trials, large-scale piloting,
  evaluation and national rollout.

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Timeline
September 2004
September 2005
September 2003
January 2004
May 2004
January 2005
May 2005
January 2006
May 2006
Phase 1 Priority Curriculum Areas
Phase 2 Priority Curriculum Areas
Phase 3 Priority Curriculum Areas
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Impact and Outcomes
Priority Curriculum areasincreases to 2007-2008
in

• Success rates.
• Numbers of institutions, teachers and learners
  reached.
• Teaching and learning inspection grades.

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Teaching learning - Success Rate Improvement
Targets
Success rates Construction Science Maths Business Studies
2001/02 58 (colleges) 40 (WBL) 68 60 (colleges) 38 (WBL)
2007/08 72 (colleges) 65 (WBL) 77 72 (colleges) 65 (WBL)
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Teaching Learning - Volumes
Learners Teachers Providers
Summer 2003 800 60 30
September 2004 1.1 million 55,000 3,000
September 2005 2.2 million 105,000 3,000
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National transformation model

• Resources distributed to all providers in Autumn
  term 2004 and second phase subjects in September,
  2005
• Provider engagement in transformation model
  gained within the region
• SU Regional subject leads to support providers
  (first four subjects in post)
• Subject learning coaches identified by all
  providers to act as main instrument of
  transformation
• Alternative engagement model identified for small
  providers
• Subject coach programme delivered LSDA
  consortium
• Regional subject learning coach networks
  established supporting Teaching, Training and
  Learning

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London events

• Second Phase of Subjects
• ICT 10th June
• Maths 27th June
• Health and Social Care 5th July
• Land based 6th July

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