Moving Towards Online Reporting Naace Think Tank
‘Exploiting ICT to improve parental engagement, moving towards online
reporting’Thursday 20th November 2008
Mike Briscoe
Director Institutions, Leadership and Safeguarding
2007 School Leaver
1995
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5 – 7yrs
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Communication
Entertainment
EducationPersonal Management
For young people, technology is a way of life
Strategy: the shift to the personal
Configured the way Iwant it
Anytime learning
Supportingindependence
SupportsIndividualLearning
paths
Supports Enduring
Educational goals
Strategy: the shift to the demand side
Promoting a clear learner entitlement– enabling effective safe and secure use
Universal access topowerful learning
tools, for family & informal learning
Developing systeminfrastructure for
personal ownership& environmental
sustainability
Securing betterteaching -exploiting professional tools &supporting teachers
Mobilising leadership through
technology networks
Where learners are now – from this
Learner outcomes – to this
Learner Entitlement – closing the gap
Universal access - family and informal learning
Professional tools for teaching
Mobilising Technology Leadership
Sustainable, personal technology
E-confident system
So, for young people, technology has to be a part of their learning
Learner Entitlement – closing the gap
Universal access - family and informal learning
Professional tools for teaching
Mobilising Technology Leadership
Sustainable, personal technology
E-confident system
So, for young people, technology has to be a part of their learning
Media
Parents will be contacted by a staff member at secondary school before their child starts at the school;
Parents will be able to attend information sessions at the new school;
Every child will have a personal tutor who knows them in the round, and acts as a main contact for parents;
Parents will have regular, up to date information on their child’s attendance, behaviour and progress in learning;
Parents Councils will ensure that parents’ voices are heard within the school;
Parents’ complaints will be managed in a straightforward and open way.
Department for Children,
Schools and Families
The Children’s Plan
Building brighter futures
Presented to Parliament
by the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and
Families
by Command of Her Majesty
December 2007
Parental engagement
“Parents we consulted over the last six months all said they wanted to be more involved in their children’s education. And schools see the benefits of greater engagement with parents...We know from schools around the country that if families are going to be involved really effectively, they need a good two way flow of information - a channel which is more efficient and more frequent than a once a year written report, or a letter home when there is a problem or a cause for celebration.
Jim Knight, minister of state for schools and learners at the Bett show, January 2008
What is government saying?
What is it that makes a difference?
A father’s interest in a child’s schooling is strongly linked to
educational outcomes for the child;
(Hobcraft. CASE briefing Nov 1998)
It is the ‘at-home’ relationships and
modelling of aspirations which play the major part in impact on school outcomes.
(Desforges 2003)
Very high parental interest is associated
with better exam results than for children whose parents show no
interest (NCDS 1999)
…It’s what parents do rather than who they are
that counts
Pupils’ achievement in the schools where the impact of parental involvement
was [judged to be] outstanding had clearly
improved. (Ofsted 2007)
They [parents] should be supported… providing the
results of periodic assessments for parents in
an easy to understand format, such as using ‘traffic lights’ to indicate children’s
understanding of key concepts
(2020 Vision: recommendations)
Learner
Parent School
Access from Home
Learner access
Access to information
AccessParents overall:2007 90% (83% Broadband)
Ofcom (2008):
Trend indicator:
Internet access for
2 parent households
2001 69%
2004 78%
2006 92%
(DCSF/BRMB 2007)
• Three quarters of a million households with children lack an ICT device and even more homes lack high quality connectivity
• Lower income households are most likely to lack home access reducing opportunities to support parental engagement and compounds social exclusion
• Schools find it to difficult to build on existing ownership and access
• Evidence demonstrates that penetration is slowing
• The digital divide is not reducing fast enough.
The challenge - narrowing the gap
Learner
Parent School
Access to information
Access from Home
Learner access
Young people: internet use rises at ages 10 and 13
Learner
Parent School
Access from Home
Learner access
Access to information
The principles:
– Extending what is already good practice
– Making best use of what is already in place and available
– Efficient and effective practice (enter once, use many times)
– Not a duplication or replacement of the annual report
– Developing sustainable approaches and processes (including assessment and recording)
The rationale
Is to improve the quality of dialogue between schools, learners and parents to support the immediate, emerging and developing needs of learners.
Learner
Parent School
What can we expect?
The expectation is that by September 2010 all secondary schools will need to offer parents the opportunity for secure online access to learner information wherever they are and whenever they want and that primary schools must also meet the online requirement by 2012.
• Secondary schools should already be looking at how they can improve their practice and sharing that learning with others, they are encouraged to engage with this now and not to wait until the 2010 deadline arrives.
• Many primary schools are already active and developing good practice, they too need not wait until the target date – they can already be benefiting from the move towards online reporting and start supporting the improvement dialogue right away.
Learner
Parent School
Timely
Meaningful Manageable
MentoringDia
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Partnership
Exploiting ICT to improve parental engagement, moving towards online reporting
Learner
Parent School
Community information
Access from home
Parents resources
Access to resources
Home and course work
Access to materials
Online reporting
Parent and learner days
Electronic reports
Email exchanges
Mobile phone alerts
SMS
texting
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