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The
ICT development plan
The ICT development plan provides the bridge between the school's current
practice with ICT and the school's vision for ICT. An ICT development
plan should be successful in achieving the school's vision. As such,
the ICT development plan will need to define the key interrelated areas
of development necessary to achieve a successful ICT strategy.
These key areas are likely to include the development
of resources (infrastructure and digital content), professional development
(ICT use and pedagogy), and curriculum development (ICT capability and
ICT use in subjects). The development use of ICT for administration
is a separate consideration.
Ofsted describes
good ICT development plans as ones which "take
a strategic view
of developments in staff expertise, resources and curriculum and seek
to align these."
DfES
Standards Fund NGfL guidance (as described by Becta)
sets out the areas to be covered in schools' ICT development plans.
These are:
how the school
will use ICT to help raise educational standards by enhancing the delivery
of the National Curriculum
in primary
schools: the plan should demonstrate how ICT will contribute to the
achievement of targets set by the school for improvements in the number
of children achieving level four and above in mathematics and English
and what use will be made of guidance from the National Numeracy and
Literacy Strategy on using ICT to teach more effectively
in secondary
schools: the plan should indicate how the schools will use ICT to support
developments under the Key Stage 3 Strategy for ICT including the enhancing
the school capacity to use ICT for teaching and assessment
how investment
in ICT will be coordinated with meeting the professional development
needs of its teachers, including through the take up of training opportunities
funded by the New Opportunities Fund (NOF)
how the school
will integrate the use of ICT for school management and administration
purposes by adopting the standards set out in the DfES Information Management
Strategy (IMS)
how the school's
ICT facilities will be made available for use out of normal school hours
by pupils and for community purposes
how ICT will
be used to promote inclusion, for example by supporting pupils with
special educational needs and by developing home-school links (including
the development of a school web site)
setting out
the school's policy for the acceptable use of ICT, including secure
access to the Internet
an audit of
levels of equipping, network use and teacher development currently being
undertaken
setting out
the school's policy for managing, developing and sustaining its ICT
provision, including accommodation/access issues
arrangements
for technical support
the safe and
environmentally friendly disposal of equipment.
Becta identifies four elements to an ICT development plan
 the ICT audit
aims and objectives
the implementation
plan
evaluation
Plans should be
devised as a result of auditing current practice in ICT and identifying
priorities for development. Plans should have clear, agreed aims and
objectives that describe the school's vision for ICT. The plan should
have a timescale, be costed, show responsibilities and be evaluated.
Targets should be specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timed
(SMART).
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