ACCREDITING TECHNOLOGY IN YOUR SCHOOL THROUGH SELF-REVIEW, 19 NOV HAMBURG

The International Educators' ICT Institute is an annual workshop event organised with the co-operation of ECIS and coinciding with their Annual Conference each year. Run on the day before the conference starts, it provides an extremely cost effective way to provide your staff with ICT professional development in addition to the conference itself. This year's institute is aimed at Strategic Leaders and ICT Directors / Co-ordinators.

Accrediting Technology in your school through Self-Review, 19th Nov Hamburg

This institute looks at the International Technology in Education Mark, a new whole-school Technology accreditation for International Schools. ITEM uses a self-review process pioneered by the highly successful ICT Mark available to UK state schools, and integrates this with the new ISTE NETS standards to produce a unique accreditation scheme suitable for international schools. It enables schools to self-review their ICT provision across all areas of the school by setting out a structure of elements, strands and aspects to facilitate self-evaluation, benchmarking and action planning. The eight elements (main areas of evaluation) are:

Leadership and Vision
Learning Experiences
Planning, Assessment & Evaluation
Work and Learning
Digital Citizenship
Professional Growth and Practice
Innovation and Creativity
Resources

By seeing where your school sits in relationship to this framework, you can establish a profile of your school’s Technology development. This institute is designed for strategic leaders and ICT Directors / Co-ordinators looking for a coherent scheme for school improvement through ICT which recognises both present achievements and provides a route-map through to accreditation. The session will enable delegates to begin that process by benchmarking their school against the ITEM criteria and discussing next steps. During the institute delegates will be expected to reflect and contribute through a virtual learning environment to model effective blended learning techniques. For this reason, you are expected to bring a wireless enabled laptop for the day.

Cost

A charge £125.00 is made for the institute to cover costs incurred by the venue and those schools wishing to adopt the scheme following the session will receive a discount on the price of ITEM. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -