eLearning+Leadership

 = eLearning Leadership =

What is eLearning Leadership?
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Where Can I Find Some Examples?


Sample Vision Statements

 * The vision of the school community encompasses a commitment to achieving excellence in education for students through a curriculum which integrates learning technologies with best practice in teaching and learning. 
 * To increase the understanding and use of eLearning strategies and technologies across the whole school curriculum improving student engagement and learning.
 *  To inspire and empower our School’s learning community to envision and implement innovative eLearning strategies and technologies to improve student engagement, experience and achievement.
 * Using ICT we will experience and create opportunities that will lead us to become self-motivated, resilient, confident, caring members of our community, ready to take up challenges and lead a happy life.

Sample Strategies around eLearning Leadership
· Form a school eLearning team to spread eLearning leadership across the school · Develop an eLearning vision, or review the school vision to include ICT · Allow staff and students to have input and ownership over the school eLearning vision · Encourage enthusiastic individuals to drive eLearning · Ask the questions- “Will ICT assist to fulfil school goals”, “What works well?” and “What needs improving?” · Link the goals into the Annual Implementation Plan rather than having a separate goal focused on the use of ICT · Ensure that leaders have high expectations and model good practice. Promote a consistent message about the use of ICT relentlessly || || · Inviting staff and students to contribute to the decision-making process concerning the strategies you embed in your eLearning plan · Creating a critical mass of teachers embedding ICT in student learning as a base for moving to create the expected culture that all teachers will embed ICT in their teaching practice. · Form an eLearning team consisting of interested section representatives · Employ a school-based technician in addition to your TSSP technician ||  || · eLearning Team to seek and apply for ICT grants to support the targets in the school eLearning plan. Allocate time in meeting agendas to allow sharing of best practice both at unit and whole staff level · Implement a unit planning template that includes direct reference to how ICT will be embedded in the unit · ICT leader and eLearning team to keep Leadership Team informed of progress. Leadership team to promote the eLearning vision. · ICT Manager and team to discuss and use activities from the ‘Learning and Teaching’ Key Area. Teachers to set individual goals in their Teacher Development Plan. · Continued inclusion of eLearning outcomes in SP and AIP || (eg. [|sample unit planner] ) || · Ensure the eLearning vision and culture of eLearning involves the school community · Promote the use of experts from outside of the school to enhance student experiences (Skype a scientist) · Create opportunities for the school to engage the parent community in the student learning Distributed eLearning leadership || Skype ||
 * ** Sample Actions ** || ** Resources ** ||
 * ** To move from the Foundation Phase to the Emergent Phase, why not try... **
 * ** To move from the Emergent Phase to the Innovative Phase, why not try... **
 * ** To move from the Innovative Phase to the Transformative Phase, why not try... **
 * ** Actions to move beyond the Transformative Phase **