ICT Framework

The ICT coordinator's responsibilities

Where the responsibilities of ICT coordinator and ICT subject leader are held by two teachers, the ICT coordinator's role is usually one of strategic leadership and management across subjects to promote the use of ICT in teaching and learning. Through liaison with others who have ICT responsibilities, the coordinator's role typically includes:

• ascertaining that every department, including special needs and the library, identifies its requirements for ICT provision;
• coordinating the effective use of ICT across the whole curriculum and encouraging aspects of cross-curricular planning;
• with the ICT subject leader, helping other departments to consider how ICT can support the teaching and learning of other subjects and what those subjects can contribute to the teaching and learning of ICT capability;
• monitoring on behalf of the senior leadership team the use of accommodation, the acquisition, maintenance and replacement of equipment and software, and its storage, access and use by pupils and staff;
• ensuring that sensible, transparent decisions are made where there are competing demands for resources, and that the school improvement plan includes plans for;
• encouraging and supporting the professional development of all staff in the use of ICT in their subjects, in line with whole-school policy and practice;
• liaising with partner primary schools, any local city learning centre, the local education authority and the wider community;
• managing the school's ICT technician and network manager.