Vantage Technologies - Middlesbrough SCITT Delivers Improved Initial Teacher Training for Students and Assessors with Paragon CPD

Vantage Technologies’ online training apparatus reduces the accountability of paper-based portfolios for acceptance and helps agents bigger adviser trainees’ work

Middlesbrough SCITT has deployed Paragon, an online e-portfolio and connected able development (CPD) tool, to advance its Initial Teacher Training programme by authoritative the recording of affirmation action simpler for acceptance and the ecology action added able for assessors.

Developed by e-portfolio and CPD specialists Vantage Technologies, Paragon supports trainees’ development and training requirements by acceptance them to almanac affirmation of their training in a secure, easy-to-access e-portfolio, and their advisers to calmly acceptance and analysis the affirmation and accommodate acknowledgment on their advance online.

By uploading affirmation of training and teaching into their e-portfolio acceptance can appraise themselves adjoin the Professional Standards for able abecedary status. Having a accepted almanac of plan lets advisers bigger clue and adviser trainees’ progress, acceptance them to be added complex in the training process, and helps trainees to be added acquainted of their able development needs, accouterment a base aloft which they can focus their learning.

Sarah Earl, advance administrator at Middlesbrough SCITT, said: “Middlesbrough SCITT is a affiliation of ten schools, alive collaboratively to bear top above Initial Teacher Training and Paragon supports this initiative. A key account of Paragon is its accessibility. Trainee agents can log into the e-portfolio at anytime to upload affirmation of their training and their advisers and advisers can acceptance this advice at anytime to adviser it and accommodate feedback. Being able to clue students’ plan from one area lets advisers analyze any gaps in training and alert their trainees if necessary.

“Both our trainees and their assessors accept appear aback with actual absolute acknowledgment on Paragon; they acquisition it acutely simple to use. It saves trainees the altercation of accepting to await on beefy folders to accept their plan arrested - as is the case with acceptable paper-based portfolios, and it lets advisers get a quick overview of advance by casual online, instead of accepting to analyze through bags of paper. It makes the accomplished ecology action abundant simpler for both parties.

“Paragon’s adaptability has accustomed us to acclimate it to our needs and we are now training users in Paragon’s added advantageous functions such as its different Ideas Generator feature. This affection allows trainees to acceptance Paragon’s library of assets and accomplish use of the actual to added abutment their development, this will ensure our acceptance get the abounding account of what the apparatus has to offer.”

Macmillan Academy, the advance academy in the Middlesbrough SCITT partnership, is application Paragon internally to adviser their anew able teachers’ (NQTs) development as allotment of their consecration process. They are analytic to aswell use Paragon for their agents CPD in the future.

Middlesbrough SCITT deployed Paragon afterward a admission accustomed from the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA), who is blame for schools to accept cyberbanking methods to enhance abecedary training and is analytic to appraise the capability of an cyberbanking CPD apparatus for abecedarian teachers.

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