Vantage Technologies - Gloucestershire ITE Partnership Deploys Paragon to Enhance Initial Teacher Training For Students and Staff

Innovative e-portfolio band-aid from Vantage streamlines abecedary training programme and cuts the accountability of acceptable paper-based acquirements for trainees and assessors

The Gloucestershire Initial Teacher Education Partnership (GITEP) has deployed Paragon, an e-portfolio and continuing able development (CPD) tool, to abridge and added enhance its Graduate Teacher Programme.

The web-based e-portfolio supports abecedarian teachers’ development and training requirements by acceptance them to almanac and accumulate clue of their training in one easy-to-access area, and their assessors to acceptance and validate the affirmation and accommodate acknowledgment online.

Developed by e-portfolio and achievement administration specialist Vantage Technologies, Paragon lets trainees upload affirmation of their training into their portfolio and appraise themselves adjoin the Professional Standards for able abecedary status. Having an up-to-the-minute almanac of plan lets advisers bigger clue and adviser trainees’ advance and helps trainees to be added acquainted of their able development needs, accouterment a base aloft which they can focus their learning.

A key account of Paragon is its adeptness to save time for both trainees and assessors. All uploaded advice is deeply accessible over the Internet at anytime so non-school based agents can acceptance and appraise affirmation accidentally instead of accepting to accomplish a cruise to school. This makes the abecedarian development action easier to adviser and administer and the appraisement action added connected and able as assessors can analyze and abode any issues as and if they arise.

Furthermore as Paragon food all CPD advice electronically in a individual location, it decidedly reduces the aggregate of cardboard plan for both parties. This removes the accountability of in-efficient and time-consuming paperwork which was complex with the above paper-based system.

Joy Sullivan, training administrator for GITEP, said: “The GITEP arrangement operates as a actual able partnerships amid schools and college apprenticeship in the country and with Paragon we’re able to added enhance the training programme we bear to our trainees.

“The acceptance who accept been application it accept accustomed actual absolute acknowledgment and are advising it to adolescent trainees, the software in actuality includes prompts for target-setting which is actual useful. Paragon is acutely simple to use and access, acceptation advisers for those trainees who accept confused assimilate added academy placements will still be able to acceptance their students’ e-portfolios for appraisal purposes.

“We looked at a brace of solutions but Paragon bigger ill-fitted our needs, it’s adjustable and can be tailored to what we ambition and is aswell geared to alive with the able abecedary cachet (QTS) standards. It’s absolutely a best-practice band-aid for schools and universities analytic to advance their abecedary training programmes.”

Paragon has initially been formed out to a pilot accumulation aural a accessory academy alum abecedary training programme, GITEP is analytic to arrange it above the blow of the trainees in the New Year.

The Gloucestershire Initial Teacher Education Partnership GTP programme is overseen by the University of Gloucester and Gloucestershire Association of Secondary Heads.

For added advice on Paragon visit: www.paragoneducation.co.uk

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