Hull Citywide DRB

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Hull Citywide DRB

• E-learning Communities Project

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Background

• 33 Trainees from a wide variety of backgrounds
  and representing a wide age range
• 22 Partnership Primary Schools covering a variety
  of contexts and geographically widely dispersed
  throughout the City.
• Trainee placements cover the whole primary age
  range.
• Isolation!
• Communications!

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Improving communication and support

• Assist the trainees in collaborating, sharing and
  supporting each other in
• Addressing the standards.
• Developing an understanding of the primary
  curriculum
• Embedding ICT in trainees practice.
• Capitalising on the rich diversity of schools and
  trainees.
• Enrich the Training Programme

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An e-learning community

• Provide
• The tools
• The support infrastructure
• Training
• Ensure that all trainees participate fully
• A project to engage with and ensure development
  of skills,
• Deadlines
• Relevant audience

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Starting points in using the technology

• gain familiarity with general and school based
  ICT applications.
• access the DRB website
• e-mail between one another and the DRB.
• plan, prepare and exchange lessons and
  presentations.
• download of learning and teaching materials from
  the recognised sites.
• preparation and exchange of digital resources.
• keep and analyse pupil records.

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Infrastructure

• Partnership Schools
• Hull Citywide DRB
• HUMMEC (LEA Website)
• City Learning Centres

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The project

• Cohort was divided into 5 teams of 6/7
  
• Each team to produce a learning resource
  supported by
• Video
• Lesson notes
• List of resources
• Strategy ideas to support learning and teaching
• Links to relevant web sites or good quality
  on-line resources
• Any other relevant materials
• Analysis of the project
• Evaluation

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Deciding the project

• As individuals we were asked to consider what we
• were having problems with
• were worried about
• did not understand
• were really interested in.
• We then shared these with other members of the
  team, identifying common themes.
• Groups decided a project remit which would
  utilise strengths within the team to address an
  area of relevance to trainee teachers

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The Teams and Their Projects

• Top ten tips in literacy for the newcomer to
  teaching.
• P.E. The teaching of team games in primary
  schools with total class participation.
• P.E. The teaching of gymnastics and the safe
  use of large apparatus.
• Top tips for good classroom management .
• Interactive whiteboards and numeracy
• an introduction.

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The starting points

• Focussed approach
• Multimedia Content of the Resource.
• relevance to the audience.
• Addressing possible difficulties.
• Sharing experiences in schools of different
  socio-economic contexts.
• Utilising existing expertise
• ASTs etc.
• questionnaire to identify strengths in City
  schools.

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Next steps

• Collation of what is already available
• in Schools
• in the Primary Strategies
• on the Internet
• Teacher Resource Exchange
• HGfL
• In the City Learning Centres

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Organisation - example

• Writing the introduction
• Hardware Mark
• Advantages Vicky
• Disadvantages Sue
• Software Luke
• Foreword Sarah
• Quotes/Questionnaire Dan

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Major outcomes of the project

• Collaborative support to improve one anothers
  skills to produce a resource which will
• Allow trainees to support one another in
• ICT
• Addressing their own perceived weaknesses on
  entry to the GTP
• Analysing and evaluating learning and teaching
  and associated resources
• Downloading and posting lesson plans, notes and
  resources
• Improve learning and teaching by enabling the
  trainees to deliver an exciting curriculum
  through ICT.
• Embed ICT in their own work
• Support aspects of the TTA Standards
• An internet available resource for future
  trainees and others in the ITT community