From ICT Register Wiki
Deadline 13 December 2010
The SSAT is co-ordinating a major nationwide research project into teachers, technology and innovative teaching, in partnership with the Institute of Education and Microsoft UK.
It is looking for 30 secondary schools to take part in an online teacher survey where all Key Stage 3 teachers and a member of the school’s SMT complete a short (30 min) questionnaire. This is part of a much wider global research project and is a unique opportunity to be involved in a high-profile research project involving education ministries and secondary schools across eight countries.
What are benefits for your school?
- Once the surveys have been completed, each participating school will receive a bespoke report analysing their own teacher data. These reports will provide school leaders with valuable comparisons between their school and the other schools in the project. It is hoped that these findings will provide useful and detailed feedback on how ICTs are being used for innovative teaching in the classroom.
- Each participating school will be provided with a valuable Microsoft CPD session on ICT, which will be an opportunity to find out about free software and innovative ways of using your existing technology.
- Teachers and school leaders in each participating school will be invited to join the ‘International Partners in Learning’ school research online community. This is an online forum where participating staff can share valuable ideas and insights on innovative teaching and learning with teachers and school leaders from the other seven countries in the project [US, Australia, Finland, Mexico, Indonesia, Senegal, Russia].
- Each participating school will be awarded membership of the ‘Partners in Learning’ network. This is a network of ICT-using schools that is officially certified by Microsoft, intended to increase schools’ reputations of being at the forefront of innovative educational practice.
How to register your school’s interest
If you want your school to be considered as one of the 30 participants in the study then please email futureschools@ssatrust.org.uk by Monday 13 December 2010.
Successful schools will be notified before the Christmas break. The expectation is that teachers should fill in the surveys over December and January – with school reports produced in March and April 2011.