The Teacher e-Portfolio for Northern Ireland (Te-PNI) Project

1. The Teacher e-Portfolio for Northern Ireland (Te-PNI) Project Gillian Stewart Regional Te-PNI Induction/EPD Strand Manager Belfast Education and Library Board

2. 380,000 online users Broadband connectivity 344,881 pupils (all ages) 1245 schools / 1220 LANs Growing online population emPowering Schools Strategy One NI-Wide MLE through C2K All teachers NOF – ICT Accredited c. 26,000 teachers 80,000 networked computers

3. The Project "The Te-PNI is a career long, career wide e-portfolio for student teachers, teachers and teacher leaders."

4. The Scope of Teacher LLW in NI Continuing Professional Development (Career-Long) Early Teacher Education (4 Years) Education Phase Initial Teacher Education Performance Review Staff Development Early Professional Development Teacher Leadership Accredited Courses UPS and Thresholds Induction How Learning is Recorded (Milestones) Assessments and Certificates: Chartered Teacher Status Formative Profile Report Induction Portfolio Professional Development Activities Professional Qualification for Headship NI Career Entry Profile PRSD Portfolio (Annually) Evidence of Competence Teachers’ Career Progression – Lifelong Learning mapped against GTCNI Teacher Competences Lead Agency HEIs Education and Library Boards Schools Schools Schools HEIs GTCNI Regional Training Unit “At the heart of becoming a teacher is, above all else, being a learner – a lifelong learner.” The Teacher Education Partnership Handbook

5. Project Policy Context Becta’s workforce capability & capacity drive as a critical indicator of successful implementation of the e-Strategy, with a specific focus on e-assessment Harnessing Technology, DfES/Becta (2005), Develop support systems for teachers to “… build their record of achievement throughout their lifelong learning.” DfES Progress Files Initiative (2005) The need for e-portfolios that foster more reflective and personalised professional learning. QAA Guidance to HEIs More effective links between ITE, Induction and EPD and CPD to be mapped against GTCNI competences DE ‘Every School a Good School’ (April 2009) Provide “… better strategic planning and delivery of professional development opportunities for teachers.” DE Circular 2007/24: The Use of ICT in Schools “The integration of an e-portfolio for professional learning” should be promoted to create efficiencies in professional development. DE, LNI Survey (Oct 2008)

6. Project Partnership

7. Partnership e-Portfolio Definition “A collection of authenticand diverse evidence of teaching competence that has been the subject of reflection, synthesis and selection for presentation to a professional audience for a specific purpose.” Definition of the Northern Ireland Te-PNI Advisory Board Strand 3: Induction

8. Project Timeline News Flash! 7 June 2010 A Teacher e-Portfolio for NI has been formally written into the Review Report on Teacher Ed currently with the Minister for Education and the Minister for Employment and Learning 8

9. Project Software • Continuity and Progression across the different teacher education stages in the Te-PNI project • Pebblepad used by: • All of the Teacher Training Institutions • (as opposed to their individual PDP solutions) • The ELBs (LEAs) • The Regional Training Unit (Staff College)

10. Project Principles • E-portfolios develop through a processof recording, reflecting, selecting and presenting evidence of professional development • E- portfolios are based on the GTCNI teacher competences/ National Standards for Headship (NI) • The type of evidence and the use to which the Te-P can be put must be agreed across the whole profession • Ownership of alle-portfolio content resides with the individual user throughout his/her career • Each training/support organisation must provide an e-portfolio software solution that will conformto the Te-PNI specification. • E-Portfolio processes must be commonly understood across the profession.

11. Rationale

12. GTCNI Teacher Competences More effective links between ITE, Induction and EPD and CPD to be mapped against GTCNI competences DE School Improvement Policy ‘Every School a Good School’ (April 2009) • Professional Knowledge and Understanding • Professional Skills and Application • Planning and Leading • Teaching and Learning • Assessment • ‘Teaching: The Reflective Profession’ (GTCNI 2007) • www.gtcni.org.uk

13. Competence Ability Report created using Ability Tool Tracking GTCNI Competence Development COMPETENCE LEVELS 1. I have limited knowledge and understanding of the competences 2. I have begun to apply my knowledge & understanding of this competence to learning & teaching. 3. I have gained a range of experiences, informed by research & reflection, that allows me to demonstrate effective application of this competence in a different context. 4. I continue to develop this competence through collaborative research & reflection & can demonstrate consequent improvements in learning & teaching.

14. Webfolio Reflections tool Keeping a Reflective e-Journal There is more onus on you to reflect using the e-Portfolio – it is more targeted. Responses have to be more precise…. Reflective Podcasts There is a tool which allows you to record your thoughts as a reflective log. You don’t have this in a paper based portfolio - I found it very useful. Strand 3: Induction

15. Area for Development Actions (Including Timescale) Support Arrangements) Success Criteria Monitoring & Evaluation Comparing hard copy ITE Formative and CEPs, Induction Action Plans & EPD PDAs … Strand 3: Induction

16. … with online ITE, Induction and EPD Forms Formative Profile Report Stranmillis University College Career Entry Profile University of Ulster Regional Induction Action Plan Regional EPD Professional Development Activity

17. Project Gateway • All Project Partners Represented • HEIs • Beginning Teachers • EPD Teachers • Teacher Tutors • Promoting Communities of Practice • Sharing Information and Resources • Disseminating Ideas and Good • Practice

18. Beginning Teacher Blog

19. Traditional Portfolio of Evidence versus … Strand 3: Induction

20. …e-Portfolio/Webfolio Strand 3: Induction

21. Outcomes Career long, career wide webfolios Webfolios created at different career stages embedded in career-wide webfolio I think it offers the great opportunity to store all of your work in the one location using a secure log-in and password with the facility to access it at home or at school. You can work at your own pace, add to your evidence and keep building on it throughout your career. 21

22. Outcomes Webfolios containing evidence of action planning, ongoing reflective practice and holistic professional development … It allows reflection and it allows you to … collate it altogether in a way that’s just like a website. Whenever I showed it to my Principal, she … just loved the fact that I had been doing all these different things and the e-portfolio showed all that, whether it was my action plans or taking a school trip to Cultra or whether it was starting a cricket club … Experience, Ability and Achievement Tools used in relation to Extra Curricular Activities and Inservice Training. I found the inservice training log section of my webfolio useful. I was going for an interview and was able just to go in and print out all the courses I had attended at the click of a button. It was simply laid out in a systematic form.

23. Research Beginning Teachers’ Rating of the e-Portfolio across a Range of Measures.

24. Project Dissemination Project Website: www.tepni.com

25. The Future Technology and Standards Teaching & Learning E-mature teachers need software that is fit for purpose, adaptable & which can provide benchmarks for learning. E-portfolios must produce real improvements in innovative practice that have the support of all professionals. • We will continue to: • refine Te-PNI specification • through further trials; • investigate & trial Web2.0 • integration & use of data for • personal learning spaces; • examine practice in other Ed • sectors & professions. • We will continue to: • test and refine processes; • engage in longitudinal • research/evaluation; • Share innovation within • and beyond. A fully integrated and portable career-long and career-wide Teacher e-Portfolio Strategy and Policy Partnerships The Te-PNI project seeks to integrate with & inform Prof Dev & e-learning policy initiatives Relationships have been established with key UK agencies • We aim to: • embed in teacher PD milestones; • submit policy recommendations to • DE/DEL/ESA; • identify implications for integration in • the Management Information System; • Increaseengagement & sustainability • We aim to: • develop these into real working • partnerships for joint learning, • development & dissemination; • Commission research, collaboration & • funding bids; • Contribute to a regional and UK • research strategy.

26. What’s it really all about? Enhancing and supporting the professional development of teachers.