exploiting ict to improve parental engagement, moving towards online reporting

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

ReceptionKS1

5 – 7yrs

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KS2(7-11)

KS2KS3

(11-14)

KS4(14 – 16)

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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

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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