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Conference Updates

Aiming High Conferences January and February 2005

Aiming High Conferences January and February 2005

In January and February 2005 the DfES hosted a series of three conferences in Manchester, Birmingham and London. The purpose of these conferences was to share with stakeholders the range of work that has emerged following the Aiming High consultation of 2003 and to give an indication of the direction of future work.
 
Robin Richardson was the keynote speaker at the London and Birmingham conferences and Dr Maud Blair delivered the keynote speech at the Manchester event.

Representatives from Multiverse, who facilitate the ITE Professional Resource Network (IPRN) in Diversity, also gave a presentation and demonstration of their website. The IPRN in Diversity is funded by the Teacher Training Agency to meet the challenge of supporting IT trainees and trainers in raising the achievement of pupils from diverse  backgrounds. It has been developed for teacher educators, student teachers, trainees and agencies involved in education, although it is a useful resource for all teachers. For more information follow the link below.

http://www.multiverse.ac.uk

Conference delegates had a choice of six workshops. To view the notes and comments from the workshops, follow the links below the titles.

  1. Towards a National EAL Specialist Qualification.

    Towards A National EAL Specialist Qualification 1 (35.0KB)

    Towards A National EAL Specialist Qualification 2 (34.0KB)

  2. Meeting the Needs of More Advanced Bilingual Learners - 'Making the Grade' Key Stage 4 Project.

    Making The Grade KS4 (35.0KB)

    Making The Grade KS4 Partnership Teaching (31.0KB)

  3. Supporting Pupils from Refugee and Asylum Seeking Backgrounds.

    RSA conference notes (28.5KB)

    RSA Case Study - Ardit (28.5KB)

    RSA Case Study - Marco (32.5KB)

  4. Raising the Achievement of African-Caribbean Pupils

    Conference notes (31.0KB)

  5. Raising the Achievement of Gypsy/Traveller Pupils

    Conference notes (43.0KB)

  6. Minority Ethnic Achievement Project: A Focus on the Underachievement of Banladeshi, Pakistani, Somali and Turkish Pupils.

    MEAP Conference notes (28.0KB)

    MEAP Conference Presentation (1.3MB)

Feedback from the conferences has been extremely positive and delegates welcomed the opportunity to hear about the work being carried out and to share their own experiences with colleagues.