Top Ten Teamwork

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Top Ten Teamwork
Tower Hamlets College
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We are here
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Tower Hamlets College
Bangladesh 70
Somalia 15
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How we used ILT in the process of inspection

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An improving College

• Success rates on all long courses at all levels
  (16-18 and 19) are above GFE benchmarks

• League tables show we are the top FE College in
  London for level 3 points scores and the
  fifth most improved in the country

• APS increased by 50 to 196.1, 50 points above
  the London FE average, 370 into HE, 5 to
  Cambridge, 6 to UCL

• Overall achievement (including more external
  accreditation ) up 8 in Skills for Life

• Access to HE courses success 12 above regional
  average

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Whole college grades

• Educational Social Inclusion Outstanding (1)
• Student Support Guidance Outstanding (1)
• Leadership and Management Outstanding (1)
• Lesson observation grades

Good or better 70
Satisfactory 27
Less than satisfactory 3
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Curriculum grades

• Sciences and Mathematics Grade 2 Good
• (Maths contributory Grade 1 - Outstanding)
• Business Grade 2 Good
• Information Communications Technology Grade 2
  Good
• Hairdressing Beauty Therapy Grade 3
  Satisfactory
• Health, Social Care Public Services Grade 2
  Good
• Visual Performing Arts and Media Grade 2
  Good
• Humanities Grade 2 Good
• Learning Difficulties Disabilities Grade 3
  Satisfactory
• ESOL Grade 2 Good
• Literacy Numeracy Grade 1 Outstanding

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How ILQ helped with Inspection

• ILQ Development Plan and strategy derived from
  whole college ILT strategy

• Interview training/SAR discussions with
  consultants across all programme and service areas

• Lesson observation training for all teaching staff

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More

• CIS Superusers scheme

• Head of ILQ audited all schemes of work and
  course reviews in each programme area
• Internal Quality Reviews in all college areas

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Yet more

• Peer and managers observations inc. LELOP

• 5 annual x-college staff development days. Over
  150 sessions attended by over 500 staff

• 'sharing good practice'

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ILT

• Pro-active ILT developments, systems and skills
  for a number of years e.g. not just prior to
  inspection - including
• VLE/Curriculum Web
• ILT Leaders/ILQ Team
• ILT Training OCR Diploma TALWILT
• Ongoing investment in classroom and central ILT
  kit e.g. IWBs Digital Cameras

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ILTVLE/Curweb

• Early adoptors of WebCT some success but
  realised wasnt going to foster cross-curriculum
  sharing
• Built curweb for this purpose easy to use and
  contribute with ethos of sharing externally too

http//www.tower.ac.uk/curweb
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ILTILT Leaders

• First year 2hrs remission thereafter 5hrs -
  most programme areas covered
• Wide range of projects - all leaders project
  managed and contracted to deliver team based and
  cross-college staff development sessions.

http//www.tower.ac.uk/curweb/ILT/default.asp?page
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ILTILT Training/Staff Development

• OCR Diploma in ICT for Teachers and Trainers
  level 4
• Teaching And Learning With ILT (TALWILT) level 3
• Long history of staff dev including bite size and
  one to one support

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ILTKit

• Ongoing investment in kit systems, classroom
  based and central resources including well
  equipped training rooms
• Strategy to equip classrooms with full kit e.g.
  IWB Data Proj Fixed PC amplified
  audio/video/DVD

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ILTBut!

• RSC pre-inspection health check produced some
  worrying resultsSome things we knew we were
  doing well were missed (by ILT Experts!) and some
  of our colleagues werent doing themselves or us
  justice e.g. no we dont have an intranet

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ILTSo

• Headline pages documenting summary view of all
  ILT activity
• ILT Leaders tasked to update teams/colleagues and
  offer further ILT support
• ILQ Team even more pro-active in lead up to
  inspection
• Key details discussed with inspectors f2f