The EdTech Demonstrator Programme provides professional development, initially focused on supporting the effective delivery of remote teaching practices for schools and colleges across the country. The programme will target schools and colleges who are most in need of support; for example, those getting to grips with using a new online learning platform. The programme is funded by the Department for Education.
The Programme includes advice, guidance and training including a mix of bespoke and group support through webinars, recorded tutorials and peer to peer discussions. It will include content on the use of online learning platforms, digital safety, supporting the needs of pupils with SEND and how to promote pupil and teacher wellbeing during remote teaching.
"Helping schools and colleges with support for remote learning, powered by a national network of Demonstrator Schools and Colleges and supported by a consortium of Delivery Partners."
Paper based resource packs
Reference to some online resources
Consolidating previously taught content
All pupils and classes registered on Google Classroom
Teachers setting work through Google Classroom but NOT necessarily marked
Pupils allocated online timetables
Consolidating content
Delivery of some videos and live lessons
Teachers collaborate to simplify their original schemes of learning to be fit for purpose online
Pupils receive new content delivery
Pupils are allocated work which can be marked, and a good proportion receives feedback
Blended online and paper
Pupils discuss their work via the Google Classroom
At AET, our mission is pure and simple: to enable our pupils to lead Remarkable Lives. This is the golden thread that binds us all together – the reason that despite our very different paths to AET, we are all part of one family. Find out more about AET here and watch the #RemarkableLives video or read more here.
AET's Journey with EdTech begin in the summer of 2011, migrating the central Trust team to what was then known as Google Apps for Education. Since then our academies have each forged their own path to the cloud, developing their use of collaboration within school, across the Trust and beyond.
The core of our EdTech ecosystem is Google Workspace which the Trust and our schools have been developing expertise in for almost 10 years.
Prior to the pandemic we had established a network of #innovAETors across the Trust and during the pandemic they were the catalyst that drove deeper and wider use Google and EdTech tools to support collaboration, remote learning and well-being for our schools and the supported schools in the first year of the EdTech Demonstrator programme.
Although every programme is designed specifically for the supported school, the suggested timeline to the right gives you a flavour of what you can expect along with example sessions found below and here.
Consultancy session to identify requirements and any plan for any gaps
Primary, Secondary and SEND targeted EdTech sessions for teaching and support staff
Technical consultancy to ensure the safe and secure setup of Google Workspace
Supporting accessibility in the delivery of the curriculum to support pupils with SEND and excluded pupils
Safeguarding support and advice with regards to use of different technologies and approaches
Reducing teacher and all staff workload through Google Workspace collaboration
EdTech Visioning session focusing on principles and then products
AET CIO
AET eLearning Strategy Manager
AET Academic Technologies Specialist.
EdtechDemo Program Delivery Lead
Academic Technologies Specialist
IT Network Manager, Lea Forest Academy
EdTechBOX is your one stop shop to support as you embark on the EdTech Demonstrator Programme.
It provides links to the EdTech Self-assessment tool, safeguarding information and guidance and the recordings of the sessions that are delivered as part of the EdTech Demonstrator programme, examples of which you can see below.
Google Workspace in Early Years and KS1
Using Other Tools Alongside Google to Enhance Home Learning
Google Classroom Plus: Enhance Teaching and Learning for your Students
Google Workspace and Digital Creativity
Google Classroom - Feedback and Assessment
Using Google Workspace and Google Classroom to Reduce Teacher Workload
Google Drive 101
Google Classroom 101
Docs, Sheets & Slides 101
Google Forms 101
Google Meet 101
Google Sites 101
Myedtechbuddy has been developed by our Program Delivery Lead, Daren White and offers self-paced, interactive EdTech PD for all types of school staff in short, manageable chunks.
Teacher Edition - Feedback, Flipped Learning, Communication, Collaboration, Creativity & Critical Thinking
School Office Edition - Docs, Sheets, Slides, Gmail, Mail Merge and more
Student Careers Edition - Helping students transition from educational to professional use of technology