9 Deficiencies were identified in Initial Teacher
Training; it must become more effective at
enabling teachers to design and manage
5 Respondents from schools and industry shared a imaginative learning experiences, to select
vision of pupils having their own personalised appropriate resources and use technology-based
ICT support system and of teachers constructing assessment. As needs and tools become more
and facilitating customised learning sophisticated, Continuing Professional
programmes that draw on diverse technologies development should continue to focus on
and content. A significant advantage of this teachers' understanding and use of ICT and on
approach would be a pupil's capacity to access training them in facilitation methods. One
their work at home or at any other location as problem is that perceived restrictions on the
well as at school. This approach has great delivery of training (cost and time) are cramping
potential for those currently disadvantaged or the achievement of a proper professionally
alienated, such as pupils excluded from school, equipped workforce.
those in hospital long-term and looked-after
children. 10 A significant weakness was the lack of
'educated purchasers' in schools. Most schools
6 Education suppliers have ideas and products in would benefit from improved knowledge, skills
development that they believe will support the and confidence in assessing products for best
development of a greater range of learning value. Respondents suggested that closer - and
environments and accelerate progress towards personal - relationships between suppliers and
personalisation. Their responses showed a schools would help, as would changes in
comprehensive and deep understanding and staffing models to integrate a specialist
analysis of the challenges and options facing technician in every school. Particular concerns
education. Smaller suppliers saw themselves as were expressed about the back pain problems
currently disadvantaged in the market place which we are storing up for our current student
despite having the potential to work closely generation, primarily through inappropriate
with schools on bespoke solutions. sizes and ergonomics of furniture in our
schools.
7 Assessment emerged as a key concern.
Respondents believed that its current purposes, 11 The liberation of learning from an institution,
audiences and methods are confused and that along with the focus on the whole child as
this reflects confusion about the purposes of fostered by Every Child Matters and the
education. Contributors called for action to Children's Plan, raised issues for some about the
examine assessment and its potential value, and need to equalise access to learning. Supported
the role that technologies might play in technology offers a real opportunity to young
supporting a more effective and relevant people, parents and their communities to
approach. participate together inside and outside a school-
based learning environment. For this to work,
8 One key issue is the compatibility of systems respondents highlighted the need for school
and software so that 'learning' objects' can be cultures to be characterised by a deep belief in
amalgamated from different sources to create the value of collaborative approaches to
learning programmes tuned to individual needs. learning that embrace parents, carers and
Achieving this is a necessity if the curriculum is community.
to become truly responsive. A framework or set
of standards would help to generate a market 12 The ability of school leadership to balance the
place based on equivalence of opportunities for demands of this raft of policies and manage
all developers. However, respondents were change is critical. A specific recommendation
adamant that this should not create a strait was to expand leadership training to cover
jacket that would stifle innovation. resource management.
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