Department of Education Capacity Building Programme

1. Department of EducationCapacity Building Programme RTU Conference for Vice Principals 16th November 2011

2. Team • Gillian Boyd DE/ETI • Neil McCormick administration • Clare Evans DE/SELB • Brenda Montgomery DE/SEELB • David Ryan DE/BELB and Norma Price C2k

3. Workshop • What challenges do schools have? • What professional development would they value? • How would they prefer the professional development to be offered?

4. They said …. • Dissemination of good practice –within and beyond school, • cluster groups, • knowledge of effective, practical strategies, • free resources, • need for whole school approach.

5. Using resources • ICT (£500m investment) • Examples of outstanding leadership and management for SEN • Principal/Teacher/SENCO skill and expertise

6. Communication across the Boundaries DE/RCSLT

7. Leadership and Management conferences • March 23 – St Colman’s PS, Belfast • March 24 – Middletown Centre for Autism • March 25 – Antrim Board Centre • March 29 – Strule Centre, Omagh • March 30 – Killard School, Donaghedee • March 31 - Nursery schools, Knockbracken • June ‘’ North West TC

8. Evaluations

9. RTU Summer SchoolCapacity Building for Inclusion

10. RTU Summer School 2011The self-evaluative SENCo

11. Capacity Building – SENCO Conferences

12. Capacity Building – SENCO Conferences • To participate in workshops on improving provision for literacy and numeracy for children with SEN in your school; • To consider the benefits of the effective use of data for school improvement; • To highlight the effective practice of the SENCO.

13. Key Data - Summary

14. 98% Described the conferences as either ‘Very Helpful’ or ‘Helpful.View/listen on LNI – capacity building

15. Benefits of the conference “Make me think about how to best go about capacity building in my own school”. “Brilliant just to have ‘time’ to reflect on our current practice and hear examples of good practice” “Consider to use and benefit of baseline testing to show improvement.”

16. Elements to impact on policy and practice in your school “More effective use of data to inform teaching” “Implementing a range of strategies to support pupils with learning difficulties – one size does not fit all!” “Disseminate information received to principal and BOG to ensure that SEN children remain effectively supported and enabled to realise their capacities as identified in ESAGS and Count, read: succeed.”

17. Resource File for SEN • Dissemination of very good/outstanding practice • Broad range of contributors – teachers, Senco, principals, ELB, Middletown, ETI, Stranmillis, St Mary’s, UU, DES, RCSLT • IME

18. Resource for Early Years • BELB • Supplemented by play/communication by Clare Evans • IME

20. Leadership ideas • Whole School PRSD Approach: • Each teacher takes a chapter; • Reads, learns, follows up on resources and links; • Pilots strategies in own teaching; • Undertakes to disseminate to whole staff; • Agrees to act as ‘capacity builder’ for other staff.

21. Ideas • Whole School PRSD Approach – Large School • Departments or groups of teachers take a chapter / number of chapters; • Reads, learns, follows up on resources and links; • Pilots strategies in own teaching and discusses at departmental meetings; • Undertakes to disseminate to whole staff; • Acts as ‘capacity builder’ for other staff.

22. Ideas • Learning Support Team approach • School establishes Learning Support Team • Member of SMT, SENCO, Interested Teachers, Classroom Assistants; • Undertake Capacity Building akin to that outlined previously; • May focus initially on the needs of pupils you have.

23. Every School a Good School

24. Workshop • Think about the implications for you as a Vice principal for building capacity in your school? • What would you focus on? • How would you organise capacity building?