Vantage Technologies - Battersea Park School Deploys Paragon CPD to Enhance Teacher Training and Support School Improvement Plan

e-portfolio band-aid from Vantage Technologies will accumulate the training action for acceptance and staff

Battersea Park School in London has deployed Paragon, an online connected able development (CPD) tool, to strengthen the hotlink amid CPD and achievement management; acceptable the abecedary training action for the school’s agents and their assessors and acknowledging the academy advance plan.

Developed by e-portfolio specialist Vantage Technologies, Paragon supports abecedarian teachers’ and anew able teachers’ (NQTs) development and training requirements by acceptance them to upload affirmation of their training into a defended and easy-to-access e-portfolio, and their advisers to acceptance and adviser the affirmation to validate the plan and accommodate acknowledgment on their advance online.

By absolution trainees and NQTs upload affirmation of their training into a axial online location, Paragon allows them to appraise themselves adjoin the Professional Standards; this helps them to be added acquainted of their development needs and enables them to accomplish their training added focussed.

Key allowances of Paragon cover its ability and accessibility. Trainee agents are able to calmly and bound upload their affirmation into the e-portfolio and advisers are able to acceptance it by artlessly logging in. This saves time for both parties, authoritative the training action added effective. Paragon’s adaptability aswell agency that Battersea Park School has been able to clothier it to their specific requirements.

Paragon enables advisers to calmly adviser their trainees’ work, this helps them to accumulate a abutting clue of their advance and beam whether trainees are accomplishing the appropriate plan to hit their targets. By accepting able to add achievement administration targets into Paragon stronger links can be accustomed amid the targets and the CPD process. Paragon’s different Ideas Generator affection aswell gives trainees and agents acceptance to its library of assets to abetment them in their training and able development.

Kate Mahar, abettor arch at Battersea Park School, said: “Paragon has accurate to be an abundantly advantageous apparatus for us. It has not alone about alone the use of beefy files and folders for abecedary training, it is aswell acutely simple to use and administer – it’s been a big hit with our trainees, teaching agents and advisers alike.

“In accordance with Government best-practice guidelines for CPD we capital to advance our own CPD arrangement by creating a stronger hotlink with the achievement administration process. We had heard about added schools application CPD accoutrement and autonomous for Paragon as it was simple to use and could be customised to our needs. The CPD apparatus is allowance us to enhance the training action for all associates of staff, in about-face acknowledging our academy advance plan.”

As able-bodied as accouterment for abecedarian agents and NQTs, Paragon is aswell acclimated to advice beginning agents - who accept been at the academy several years – to hit their own CPD targets.

Currently Battersea Park School has deployed Paragon to its maths and English departments; it is now advancing to cycle it out to its IT department. The academy affairs to accept deployed the e-portfolio band-aid to all teaching agents by the end of 2009, and to all non-teaching agents by again end of September 2010; this is in accordance with latest Government guidelines, which acclaim that CPD for non-teaching agents is aswell monitored.

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About Vantage Technologies Limited
Vantage Technologies Limited is an IT casework and solutions company, founded in 1988, specialising in the accumulation of avant-garde software solutions for the advance of alive practice. Vantage is breath in a array of bazaar sectors including bounded authorities, healthcare, badge and able institutions. Its artefact portfolio of web-based solutions includes accident management, able development and e-learning. For added advice visit: www.vantage-technologies.co.uk

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