Steps that you can work through to prepare a strategic plan for the implementation of ICT in a school.

1. Strategic Planning: Developing a roadmap to facilitate meaningful, evidence based change towards desirable outcomes.

3. Creativity Strategic Planning Vision Where are we now and how do we move towards our vision? Translating our plan into innovative classroom implementation Imagination Creativity - using imagination to solve problems Innovation - putting that creativity into practice

7. From the Becta site

8. From the Becta site A Well Designed Plan Needs to Address All Dimensions of Change

9. A Step by Step Guide to Effective Strategic Planning

10. Form a Strategic Planning Committee

12. Form a Strategic Planning Committee Research and Develop a Vision

13. Research and Develop a Vision Areas to Consider Philosophy and aims Curriculum aspects Management of ICT in the school Professional development of teachers and other staff Hardware and deployment Financial aspects Monitoring and review Planning needs

24. Form a Strategic Planning Committee Research and Develop a Vision Gather data on Present State

25. Gather Information on Present State Equipment and Hardware - ICT Audit

26. Define Present State People Skills and Attitudes EPS - Individual Teacher ICT Assessment Make customised tools Survey Monkey Becta Assessment Tools Leadspace Evaluation Tool

27. Define Present State Where we sit as a School http://www.clusterweb.org.uk/ictstrategyconference/ictstrategy.html Click on each stage for a detailed explanation. Click on the yellow background box to skip descriptions. Visits to other schools for comparison

28. ■ Familiarisation Teachers are becoming increasingly aware of ICT, and may have attended some training, but often lack confidence and therefore reluctant to use it in their classroom teaching.

29. ■ Utilisation Teachers are increasingly aware of the benefits of technology, and begin to incorporate it into teaching, often replacing former activities with ICT alternatives. This begins to have a beneficial effect on teaching and learning.

30. ■ Integration Teachers are becoming increasingly familiar with appropriate use of ICT, and can integrate it into many aspects of their ongoing teaching. Teaching and learning are becoming significantly enhanced.

31. ■ Reorientation The potential of ICT is now exploited to enable approaches which could not easily be replicated by traditional means. Teaching and learning begin to be significantly transformed.

32. ■ Evolution The creative possibilities of ICT are being fully explored. ICT is developed in response to learners’ needs. Teaching and learning are significantly transformed.

33. Collate into a SWOT analysis Form a Strategic Planning Committee Research and Develop a Vision Gather data on Present State

34. An example focusing on school intranet Strengths There is a functioning school intranet that provides children with safe portals to the internet (filtered by WatchDog) and an area for posting class webpages. Weaknesses The intranet was designed on an older web design program this is not available since the latest upgrade (image). Opportunities Information for teachers on ICT policies and ICT skills could be included in the school intranet. Threats No suitable web design software for Macs has yet been identified as being easy for kids to use ( pre iWeb ) and this means the intranet could quickly become outdated

35. Collate into a SWOT analysis Form a Strategic Planning Committee Research and Develop a Vision Gather data on Present State Identify Strategic Gap

36. Identify Strategic Gap

37. Collate into a SWOT analysis Form a Strategic Planning Committee Research and Develop a Vision Gather data on Present State Identify Strategic Gap Develop Strategic Targets and Indicators

38. Develop Strategic Targets and Indicators All teaching staff can use the SMS for basic administrative functions Staff in the junior school have employed appropriate technologies to improve oral language skills Two possible examples

39. SMART can be used as a planning tool Collate into a SWOT analysis Form a Strategic Planning Committee Research and Develop a Vision Gather data on Present State Identify Strategic Gap Develop Strategic Targets and Indicators Break this down into projects (action plan) Decide on roles and responsibilities Develop funding strategy Set objectives and timeframes

41. What are you going to do and why? How will you know when you have succeeded? What steps will you take? Have you considered your own skills and the experiences of your students? Will you need extra support? At what time will you complete each phase of the project?

42. S pecific In order to raise oral language skills, selected children will each create podcasts about the book of the week using Garageband which will then be published to the class intranet page using iWeb. This will be done every week for a term. One Possible Example

43. M easurable • Children will be selected for this project based on low attainment using JOST (Junior Oral Language Screening Tool) • They will be tested again after one term and compared to a similar child in another class not involved in the project to judge if this project has been a success.

44. A ction Plan 1. Test children considered at risk using JOST. Take the lowest achieving five children to be part of this project. This is mirrored in a class not involved in the project. 2. Children are given time to discuss the book of the week in class and the project children are encouraged to answer key questions about the book and develop vocabulary appropriate for the book. These sessions are recorded as podcasts with children able to re-record as necessary in order to have a good model of themselves to listen back to. 3. Project children listen back to the podcasts and are asked to comment on how well they responded and how clearly you could hear them. Other children are asked to listen and provide feedback. 4. At the end of the term, the children are asked to listen to their very first podcast and their last one and focus in on how they have improved. Their comments are recorded as a podcast (digital assessment object) 5. At the end of the term, the five children involved in the project and the five similar children not involved in the other class are tested using JOST and comparisons made.

46. T imeframe 1. JOSH testing completed at end of previous term and children chosen. 2. Podcasts to be completed between Monday and Thursday each week with children asked to self-assess and choose a peer to assess on a Friday. 3. JOSH testing at the end of the term to be completed by the end of the Week 9. Final child analysis of how they think they have improved over the term to be completed during the last week of term and recorded as a podcast as part of the project. 4. Results shared at staff meeting at the beginning of the following term with other classes deciding whether or not to begin similar programmes.

47. SMART can be used as a planning tool Collate into a SWOT analysis Form a Strategic Planning Committee Research and Develop a Vision Gather data on Present State Identify Strategic Gap Develop Strategic Targets and Indicators Implement a phase of projects Break this down into projects (action plan) Decide on roles and responsibilities Develop funding strategy Set objectives and timeframes

48. Implement a phase of projects

49. SMART can be used as a planning tool Collate into a SWOT analysis Form a Strategic Planning Committee Research and Develop a Vision Gather data on Present State Identify Strategic Gap Develop Strategic Targets and Indicators Implement first phase of projects Assess impact and adjust plan if necessary Break this down into projects (action plan) Decide on roles and responsibilities Develop funding strategy Set objectives and timeframes

50. The children selected for the junior podcasting project have shown a marked improvement in their oral language skills using JOSH as the testing tool as compared to similar children not involved in the project. As a result, the decision has been made that this project will now continue in all junior classrooms. The teacher who completed this project will be leading staff development in how to manage this technology in the classroom. Assess impact and adjust plan if necessary

52. SMART can be used as a planning tool Collate into a SWOT analysis Form a Strategic Planning Committee Research and Develop a Vision Gather data on Present State Identify Strategic Gap Develop Strategic Targets and Indicators Implement a phase of projects Assess impact and adjust plan if necessary Break this down into projects (action plan) Decide on roles and responsibilities Develop funding strategy Set objectives and timeframes Within plan timeframe At end of plan timeframe

53. This is an excellent site for a breakdown of the process: http://ictpd.net/techplan2005/