M-ICT
Start date: Jul 1, 2014,
End date: Jun 30, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
KA D’Hek Landen is situated on the Campus D’Hek Landen. There is also a junior comprehension school MS D’Hek Landen on this Campus. Together with MS D’Hek Landen KA D’Hek Landen forms a pedagogic entity. Educational reforms are worked out on Campus level.
Thanks to a broad supply of study courses and educational disciplines our pupils’ population is a correct representation of society. At this very moment 20 % of the pupils on our Campus are diagnosed with a learning disability. For these pupils particular measures (STICORDI) are being taken. Furthermore our school opens its mind for pupils with special educational needs apart from learning disabilities.
This diversity in our school population on the one hand and the arrival of the M-decree in 2015, because of which even more pupils with specific educational needs will have to find their way in the normal educational process on the other hand, provides for a solid dynamism and requires a innovative and adjusted educational policy with flexible learning routes.
The challenge for the school management consists out of adapting its view on education to the announced educational reforms in Flanders without affecting the educational standards.
Besides there are major differences between teachers. Therefore they need support in acquiring new insights in innovative techniques in order to be able to work in a differentiated way. ICT is being introduced in all curricula, but often teachers lack technical abilities to use these ICT-tools.
In addition there is an urgent need for extra support in the selection of the most suitable tools, taking into account the special educational needs of the pupils. This project, M-ICT, is part of the professionalization policy and of the focus on new educational methods in the area of special needs combined with ICT.
For this project a core team is composed, consisting of the management team completed with some teachers. The background of all these participants is diverse and powerful, varying from professional bachelors till masters in diverse main subjects. Out of each study department extra members are selected based on intrinsic motivation for personal professionalization, sense of responsibility for the distribution of the acquired knowledge and of the basics of English.
During the school year 2014-2015 the first activity ‘Leading schools into the future’ (November 2014) especially links up with the needs of the management team that mainly focuses on developing a clear view. ‘Finnish lessons for European school’ (January 2015) are the second topic on the calendar and form a perfect match with the needs of acquiring deeper insights in the efficiency of the Finnish educational methodology, the ICT-integration and the thematic education for pupils with specific educational needs.
In April 2015 the ‘Taccle-course’ is scheduled. It’s a programme especially aimed at teachers who experience difficulties in transforming ICT-ideas and applications into specific learning activities within their own specialty.
The fourth course ‘Education for tomorrow’ (May 2015) will mainly focus on the needs of the management team and the objective to convince everybody of the necessity of educational reform.
During the school year 2015-2016, in the month of January, the ‘Bett-scholarship’ will inspire and offer us new ideas about the newest e-learning and educational strategies and it will meet the demand of knowledge of new ICT-tools. ‘Taccle 2’ will be used in April 2016 mainly to convince teachers, who do not belong to the core team and who are not ICT-minded out of ignorance, of the possibilities of ICT-integration and to broaden and anchor their point of view.
Finally in March 2016, with the aid of the course ‘Inclusive learning using I-pads and tablets’, we will acquire insights in how we can support the communication and self-expression of pupils with specific educational needs by means of the new media.
The M-ICT core team is part of the task force flexible learning routes. A major objective of this task force is to develop a concrete plan to spread the acquired competences and skills within the framework of M-ICT via internal post-gradual courses and to integrate them in the educational process.
The experience and knowledge gained in M-ICT will be exchanged with the 8 colleagues principals secondary education of School Group 11. In this way the view development of colleagues will be sustained. The results and experiences will be published in the info magazine for all staff members of school Group 11. Parents and pupils will be informed via the digital school learning platform, the website and the local press.
M-ICT is a project dat broadens our horizon by its international context as well for the management team as the staff of teachers. The acquired knowledge and skills will provide in time a quality ICT-integrated education that will smoothly take care of the growing mix of educational needs and flexible learning routes.
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