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The Teacher e-Portfolio for

Northern Ireland (Te-PNI) Project

Gillian StewartRegional Te-PNI Induction/EPD Strand Manager

Belfast Education and Library Board

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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

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The Project

"The Te-PNI is a career long, career wide e-portfolio for student

teachers, teachers and teacher leaders."

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UPS and UPS and ThresholdsThresholds

Evidence of Competence

PRSDPortfolio

(Annually)

HEIsGTCNI

Continuing Professional Development (Career-Long)

Education Phase

How Learning is Recorded

(Milestones)

LeadAgency

Teachers’ Career Progression – Lifelong Learning mapped against GTCNI Teacher Competences

Formative Profile Report

Initial Initial Teacher Teacher

Education Education

Career Entry

Profile

InductionPortfolio

Professional Development Activities

Induction Induction Teacher Teacher

Leadership Leadership

Professional Qualification for

Headship NI

Assessments and

Certificates: Chartered

Teacher Status

Education and Library Boards

RegionalTraining

Unit

SchoolsHEIs Schools Schools

Early Teacher Education (4 Years)

The Scope of Teacher LLW in NI

Early Early Professional Professional Development Development

Performance Performance Review Review

Staff Staff DevelopmentDevelopment

Accredited Accredited CoursesCourses

“At the heart of becoming a teacher is, above all else, being a learner – a lifelong learner.”

The Teacher Education Partnership Handbook

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Provide “… better strategic planning and delivery of

professional development opportunities for teachers.”

DE Circular 2007/24: The Use of ICT in Schools

Project Policy Context

The need for e-portfolios that foster more reflective

andpersonalised professional

learning.QAA Guidance to HEIs

More effective links between ITE, Induction and EPD and CPD to be mapped against GTCNI competencesDE ‘Every School a Good School’ (April 2009)

Develop support systems for teachers to “… build their record of achievement throughout their lifelong learning.”

DfES Progress Files Initiative (2005)

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),

“The integration of an e-portfolio for professional learning” should be promoted to create efficiencies in professional development.

DE, LNI Survey (Oct 2008)

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Project Partnership

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Strand 3: Induction

“A collection of authentic and 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.”

Partnership e-Portfolio Definition

Definition of the Northern Ireland Te-PNI Advisory Board

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Project Timeline

News Flash!

7 June 2010A 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

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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)

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1. E-portfolios develop through a process of recording, reflecting, selecting and presenting evidence of professional development

2. E- portfolios are based on the GTCNI teacher competences/ National Standards for Headship (NI)

3. The type of evidence and the use to which the Te-P can be put must be agreed across the whole profession

4. Ownership of all e-portfolio content resides with the individual user throughout his/her career

5. Each training/support organisation must provide an e-portfolio software solution that will conform to the Te-PNI specification.

6. E-Portfolio processes must be commonly understood across the profession.

Project Principles

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Rationale

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•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

GTCNI Teacher Competences

More effective links between ITE, Induction and EPD and CPD to be mapped against GTCNI competencesDE School Improvement Policy ‘Every School a Good School’ (April 2009)

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Tracking GTCNI Competence DevelopmentCOMPETENCE LEVELS

1. I have limited knowledge and understanding of the

competences2. 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.

Competence Ability

Report created using Ability Tool

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Strand 3: Induction

Keeping a Reflective e-Journal

tool Webfolio Reflections

There is more onus on you to reflect using the e-Portfolio – it is more targeted. Responses have to be more precise….

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.

Reflective Podcasts

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Strand 3: Induction

Comparing hard copy ITE Formative and CEPs,

Induction Action Plans & EPD PDAs …Area for

Development

Actions

(Including Timescale)

Support Arrangements)

Success Criteria

Monitoring & Evaluation

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… with online ITE, Induction and EPD Forms

Formative Profile

Report

Stranmillis University

College

Regional EPD

Professional

Development Activity

Career Entry ProfileUniversity of Ulster

Regional Induction Action Plan

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Promoting Communities of Practice

•Sharing Information and Resources•Disseminating Ideas and Good Practice

Project Gateway

All Project Partners Represented

•HEIs•Beginning Teachers•EPD Teachers•Teacher Tutors

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Strand 3: Induction

Traditional Portfolio of Evidence versus …

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Strand 3: Induction

…e-Portfolio/Webfolio

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OutcomesCareer long, career wide webfolios

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.

Webfolios created at different career stages embedded in career-wide webfolio

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Outcomes

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.

Experience, Ability and

Achievement Tools used

in relation to Extra Curricular

Activities andInservice Training.

… 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 …

Webfolios containing evidence of action planning, ongoing reflective practice and holistic professional

development

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Research

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

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Project Dissemination

Project Website:

www.tepni.com

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Teaching & Learning

E-portfolios must produce real improvements in innovative practice that have the support of all professionals.

E-mature teachers need software that is fit for purpose, adaptable & which can provide benchmarks for learning.

Strategy and Policy

The Te-PNI project seeks to integrate with & inform Prof Dev & e-learning policy initiatives

Partnerships

A fully A fully integrated and integrated and portable career-portable career-

long and long and career-wide career-wide Teacher e-Teacher e-PortfolioPortfolio

Relationships have been established with key UK agencies

We will continue to: •test and refine processes; •engage in longitudinal research/evaluation; •Share innovation within and beyond.

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.

Technology and Standards

We aim to:•embed in teacher PD milestones; •submit policy recommendations to DE/DEL/ESA;• identify implications for integration in the Management Information System;•Increase engagement & 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.

The Future

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What’s it

really all

about?Enhancing and supporting the

professional development of

teachers.

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