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Web and Video Archive of the 2004 Conference (videos require Windows Media Player and a broadband connection) Learning InterAction National Conference 2004: Raising Attainment through Effective Practice with Interactive Whiteboards Date: 9th June 2004 Venue: Stoke-on-Trent Moat House, Etruria Hall, Festival Way, Stoke-on-Trent, ST1 5BQ (overnight accommodation available at the venue). Objectives: Delegates should take from this conference:
Who should attend: Head teachers; senior and middle managers from primary and secondary schools; school improvement professionals from LEAs and other organisations. Background: It is now becoming acknowledged that interactive whiteboards have the potential to improve school standards. It is also increasingly clear that to realise this potential schools must take supporting action in a number of areas. The conference aims to present all of the available information about whiteboards to school managers and school improvement professionals. This information will place leaders in a strong position to support their schools. As professionals, we all must harness interactive whiteboards as effective catalysts for school improvement. Event outline: 9:30 - 10:00 Registration and refreshments 10:00 - 10:30 Keynote Speech: Bob Sawyer (in main hall) - click here to view the video of Bob's keynote presentation and here to view his afternoon seminar on school improvement and 'strategies for sucess'. View or download Bob's PowerPoint presentation. 10:30 - 11:30 Presentation: Outcomes from the NNS/NLS Interactive Whiteboard Pilot - 'Embedding ICT in the Literacy and Numeracy Strategies' - Hannah Jones (Pilot Director) (in main hall) - click here to view the video of Hannah's presentation. View or download Hannah's PowerPoint presentation. 11:30 - 12:00 Light refreshments and Exhibition 12:00 - 1:00 Presentation: Improving Learning Outcomes with Interactive Whiteboards - Don Passey (Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Educational Research at Lancaster University) (in main hall) click here to view the video of Don's presentation. View or download Don's PowerPoint presentation. 1:00 - 2:00 Lunch and Exhibition During the afternoon, delegates may select two of the four seminars. The seminars will be led by key people who have improved standards in their own schools. These schools have already made effective use of whiteboard technologies. A range of school settings is represented and there will be opportunities to put questions. 2:00 - 2:45 Seminars (in main hall + 3 seminar rooms) 2:45 - 3:30 Seminars (repeated) 3:30 - 4:00 Light refreshments and Exhibition 4:00 - 4:30 Questions and Answers Expert Panel (main hall + 3 seminar rooms) From 4:30 Exhibition and/or depart The Speakers Bob Sawyer is currently Headteacher of All Saints Catholic High School in Sheffield. Prior to this he was Regional Director for the National Numeracy Strategy in the East region. Bob has an established career in mathematics and mathematics education and he has taught mathematics in both the primary and secondary phase. He has work in several LEAs and was head of the advisory service in Stoke-on-Trent. Bob is best known for his work on interactive teaching and school self-review and evaluation. His most recent contribution to school improvement has been within the development of the DfES Strategy for ICT. All Saints Catholic High School is a very popular over subscribed school in the city centre. There are 1200 pupils on roll and the school serves a wide range of communities including some of the most deprived in the city. The school has 3 strategic priorities, one of which is ICT, both as a contribution to teaching and learning through the development of teaching approaches and learning styles, and through tracking student progress and communication. The school currently has approximately 40 interactive whiteboards and plans to introduce a further 16 in the next phase of development. Hannah Jones is the director of the Primary National Strategy's Interactive Whiteboard Pilot. This demonstration pilot, which began in September 2002, is undertaking work to improve the use of ICT within literacy and mathematics teaching in Years 2, 3, 5 and 6, focusing on whiteboard technology and the contributions it can make to whole-class, interactive teaching. Participating LEAs include Cumbria, Lewisham, Oxfordshire, Redcar and Cleveland, Staffordshire, Wakefield, Bracknell Forest and others. The pilot is being externally evaluated by Newcastle University and has aimed to:
Don Passey is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Educational Research at Lancaster University. He has wide experience with evaluation of technological innovation, and has worked with government agencies and others in undertaking research to inform both policy and practice. He has been a consultant to the DfES on a number of projects, is currently working on the development of innovative approaches to data management systems in schools and LEAs, and has recently completed studies on pupil motivation and ICT, and on looking at the outcomes and implementation of the Pathfinder LEAs. He reported previously on evaluations of a DfEE initiated pilot project for the development of Year 7 on-line course materials for mathematics produced and run by RM, and the use of the Learning Pathways A+LS in primary schools. These recent studies have all been concerned with aspects of effective uses of interactive whiteboards. Prior to this most recent work, he led a team that investigated the outcomes of laptop use in schools and homes as part of the Microsoft UK Supported Anytime, Anywhere Learning Project., and for a study for the QCA looking at the implications of uses of ICT for coursework in examination assessment. He was a member of the IT Task Group involved at an early stage in the last review of the National Curriculum, led the Government Education Departments' Superhighways Initiative evaluation on home-school links, led the commercial evaluation of a new ILS to support early years' mathematics development, has undertaken evaluations which have been concerned with distant support of education and home education via fax tutoring and teletutoring, and with the support of the use of ILS in isolated sites. He has worked as a consultant in a number of individual schools, in LEAs, with government agencies such as QCA and NCET (BECTa), for the DfES, and for commercial companies in the UK and in Germany. He is a member of the International Federation for Information Processing Working Group on Elementary Education and ICT, and a member of the BCS Schools Expert Panel. He was an international reviewer for UNESCO on a publication on uses of ICT in primary education, and has written extensively on aspects of ICT uses in primary and secondary education. Afternoon Seminars Seminar 1 Mike Schofield is the Headteacher of Headlands Primary School in York, recently featured in the Times Educational Supplement. He has a mathematics background and has been a Leading Numeracy Teacher for the City of York since the beginning of the National Numeracy Strategy. He has offered demonstration lessons to teachers across York as well as joint planning a transition conference for teachers of years 6/7 for the City. He has, for the last 3, years developed a strategic approach to the development of interactive whiteboards within his school and has led, through the school's Beacon work, a series of cluster workshops in the use of interactive whiteboards and the subsequent development of resources. He was also invited to join the DfES national interactive whiteboards pilot for year 5 and 6 teachers, within which he has led LEA-based training, demonstrations and mentoring work, in addition to leading three regional training sessions in the use of interactive whiteboards for Yorkshire and Humberside. Seminar 2 Bob Sawyer, Head teacher of All Saints Catholic High School in Sheffield (see earlier notes) Seminar 3 Kath Bentley, Ann Oakley and others will be representing Weston Coyney Infant School. This is a school in Stoke-on-Trent facing challenging circumstances. The school has been recognised nationally through achieving Beacon school status in 2000; a Schools Curriculum Award in 2002 and an Artsmark Gold award in 2003. Improved performance in national tests was acknowledged in 2003 by an award from the DfES for achievement, and the school has also been listed as a successful school in the HMI Annual Reports for 1998 and 2004. Weston Coyney Infant School has invested heavily in interactive whiteboards and staff will be reporting on the impact that these have had on pupil attainment. Seminar 4 Blurton High School is another school in Stoke-on-Trent facing challenging circumstances. Gill Brown (Assistant Headteacher), and other colleagues will outline the role interactive whiteboards have played in helping the school to improve. Pupil attainment at key stages 3 and 4 has risen significantly over the last few years. The percentage of pupils achieving five or more GCSE A*-C grades has gone up from under 30% in 2000, to over 50% in 2003. In 2001 the school was the most improved school in the LEA. As a result of this, it was awarded the School Achievement Award in 2002. Gill will outline the supporting measures the school took to ensure that the whiteboards were used to best effect. Delegate rate:
Overnight hotel accommodation at the Moat House hotel (evening of 8th June 2004) Per person including breakfast - £85 To register
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