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Your ICT Development Plan should address your intentions
for a 1-year cycle.
ICT and curriculum
Your ICT development plan should: Explain how
ICTs will be used to enhance the curriculum and raise standards across
the curriculum, in line with the national curriculum and national literacy
and numeracy strategies.
It should include details of:
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How you propose to deliver the ICT
curriculum. |
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How you intend to implement the delivery
of at least 20% of the curriculum using ICTs. |
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How schemes of work will provide
for differentiation. |
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How the curriculum is addressing
the needs of children who both do and do not have access to technology
outside of school hours (this can be linked with the community element
of the Development Plan) |
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How ICTs will be used
to support literacy, numeracy and other curriculum areas. |
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How you propose to monitor, assess
and record learner progress using ICTs. |
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How you propose to monitor the impact
of ICTs on the teaching and learning environment, across all learning
areas. |
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How assessment, recording and monitoring
using ICTs will inform practice. |
Professional development
Your ICT development plan should: Give details
of how educators' ICT professional development needs will be met.
It will include:
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An audit of educator development/requirements. |
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Any current programmes that you are
following and/or intend to follow. |
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Any other training that will be necessary
to meet the priorities set out in your ICT development plan to help
the school achieve higher standards. |
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Any training required to support
administrative staff, alongside educators. |
Management and administration
Your ICT development plan should: Detail how
you intend to integrate the use of ICTs for school management and administration
purposes.
Of note: The UK has set out standards set in
their Information Management Strategy (IMS). Details of this strategy
can be found on http://www.dfee.gov.uk/ims/summary.
While it is a U.K.based example, details can be adapted for the South
Africa context and your school to some advantage.
In this area, your ICT development plan will include:
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Details of equipment and the connections
that the school will put in place and/or needs to update. |
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Details of how learner and staff
data will be transferred between schools and the Department of Education. |
Community & out of school use
Your ICT development plan should: Give details
of how you plan to make ICT facilities available to the wider community
and how communication will be facilitated.
In this area, your ICT development plan will include
details of:
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The development and maintenance of
your school website. |
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Any courses that will be offered
to parents and/or community members. |
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Any clubs that will run out of school
hours. |
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Any links with other schools, locally,
nationally and/or internationally. |
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Any link that will be established
with local institutions and the reasons for this link. |
As well, you may want to indicate how ICTs will be
used to promote inclusion and the support of children with special needs.
This could include:
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Details of specialist hardware/software. |
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The configurations for existing hardware/software. |
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The level and quality of classroom
support and organisation for children with special needs. |
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The use of Integrated Learning Systems. |
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The monitoring of use by different
user groups that have non-mainstream learner needs. |
Infrastructure security and ICT support
Your ICT development plan should include details on:
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Future purchasing and connectivity
plans, e.g. proposals for extra computers, cabling, networking,
computer suites, interactive whiteboards and other technologies,
etc. |
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The management, maintenance and security of ICT
equipment at the school. |
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Ergonomic spatial considerations that will benefit
learners and reduce user stress. |
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Infrastructural development needs at the school
that need to be met in order to protect existing and planned for
ICT equipment from theft, hackers, etc. |
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The school's environmentally friendly plans for
disposing of old equipment. For example, will the school use an
established recycling company? |
Additional points to consider
The ICT development plan should be preceded by a school
vision statement e.g. 'our school is forward looking with an ethos focused
on achievement and success for all. We are committed to ICT learning
in this digital age. By providing ICT opportunities for learners at
our school, we will be able to:
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Improve standards in literacy and numeracy. |
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Secure access for all. |
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Enhance teaching and learning in all learning
areas. |
Please note, this is only an example.
Your school ICT development plan should also include
a set of aims that relates to the school development plan, more
broadly, but which pays particular attention to the use of ICTs, as
this may not have been detailed before at the school.
Your set of aims for the school in introducing ICTs
may resemble the example given below:
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To raise educational standards in all learning
areas. |
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To broaden learners' horizons by … |
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To help learners integrate into the world of
work by… |
In addition include:
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Evidence of a revised policy for safe and acceptable
use of ICTs which reflects current best practices. |
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A full and detailed audit of equipment
(for example, network/ICT room use, if relevant), and of educator
ICT skill levels, if not detailed elsewhere. |
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