iWill transform teacher appraisal in your school

“The time it has saved our school has been phenomenal, but more

importantly, it has revealed weaknesses in our teaching across the

school that we were simply not aware of.”Newham Primary School

i-WIGT

Transparent Participatory Insightful Developmental

The i-WIGT is a collaborative teacher development App

based on the acclaimed What is Good Teaching? framework

“It’s a brilliant concept.”Head of Anglesey Primary School, Birmingham

The i-WIGT encompasses national criteria drawn from Ofsted and is correlated with the National Teachers’ Standards. In fact, it goes far beyond these parameters, making it a powerful teacher development tool, rather than simply an Ofsted compliance tool.

During observations, the App presents the observer with a clear matrix of preferred statements. These subtle and intensively researched gradations in performance skill are the key to the power of the i-WIGT.

They unpack that elusive, and often intuitively used, set of skills that constitute effective and outstanding teaching – allowing them to be recognised, recorded and translated for other teachers.

A key aspect of the framework’s appraisal criteria is what pupils are doing in class – enabling you to incorporate assessment of learning as well as teaching in your observations.

Skills of great teaching unpacked

“Staff felt that it took a lot of the subjectivity away, which they appreciated. I did worry that they would find

the level of detail difficult but not a bit of it…They liked the way it is much more objective and transparent

than previous lesson objectives.”Head of Anglesey Primary School, Birmingham ii “The teachers all explained how they

preferred to receive their feedback with

the observer referring to the i-WIGT, and

that it was more meaningful seeing the

completed framework used during the

feedback immediately after the lesson.”Castleview School, Slough

The i-WIGT is an iPad App that uses a clean, simple interface with touch-screen interaction to seamlessly assist you to appraise, mentor and improve teaching and learning within your school.

According to schools currently using the App, it has won the support of teachers for the common basis it gives to all lesson observations, the visibility of the reporting process and the developmental paths it provides.

The i-WIGT is based on the What is Good Teaching? framework. Using national and international research, and developed over 10 years in conjunction with teachers, this highly successful framework is currently in use in over 1000 schools.

Easy to use, confidential and secure, the i-WIGT will help your school to provide:

■ Objective and fair teacher performance observations in real-time ■ Accurate, consistent and useable feedback for your teachers ■ Clear paths for teachers towards outstanding, creative teaching ■ A transparent performance-related pay practice ■ Trackable data for each teacher as well as by subject, year group and more ■ Teacher self-assessment to encourage reflective practice ■ Areas for teachers to evidence their work by uploading images and videos

An assessment process your teachers will support

iSchools that are already using the i-WIGT say that it has uncovered weaknesses and outstanding practice that managers and teachers had previously been unaware of.

The App also allows teachers and peers to reflect on their own performance and to upload photos and video of their work, then post these observations and evidence directly to their personal Performance Management Document.

In fact, the shared, common basis of the i-WIGT appraisal system can justify and de-personalise adverse decisions as well as support teachers in their career goals.

Towards reflective practice

“It definitely made me more objective. Normally, I don’t tend to give ‘Outstanding’

to any lessons unless I think nothing can be improved. But the i-WIGT gave me

confidence that I could do, even though some things needed work on.”

Head of Anglesey Primary School, Birmingham

Your school’s secure and confidential Data Centre collects and collates all your teachers’ Performance Management Documents, giving you the ability to track the performance of individual teachers over time, as well as giving you at-a-glance data on performance across the whole school.

Because the school can assess performance by teacher, year group, status of the teacher (NQT, ITT, TA etc), as well as easily highlight and share outstanding best practice, CPD can be more effectively targeted, and its effectiveness more easily tracked for individual teachers and groups.

Crucially, information from the i-WIGT gives you firm evidence with which to deliver your performance-related pay strategy in a way that is transparent and equitable. The reports clearly show which Teachers’ Standards have or have not been achieved by individual teachers and can provide a supporting rationale for promotion decisions.

An App for school improvement

An assessment and intervention tool

“The i-WIGT is particularly helpful in the

assessment of teachers on the margins of

RI to good and good to outstanding – the

grading system has made me more robust

and confident in my judgements.”Nicky Willis, Headteacher,

Cippenham Primary School, Slough

Appraisal feedback automatically supplied by the i-WIGT quickly highlights each teacher’s observed strengths and development areas, linking your observations directly to the Teachers’ Standards.

These in turn are linked to appropriate articles in Imaginative Minds’ acclaimed Best Practice Library, part of the Professional Learning Community.

This library is one of the best CPD resource collections in the world, especially for teachers. It contains over 7000 serious, rigorous articles on all aspects of teaching and learning, and classroom and behaviour management.

“The i-WIGT provides an excellent and highly efficient system to observe and evaluate the quality of teaching

and learning linked to performance management and, through the links with the Imaginative Minds Best

Practice Library, offers immediate access to a range of articles to support professional development.”Elaine Ricks-Neal, Jt. Principal Adviser for School Improvement, West Berkshire Council

Online at www.i-wigt.comCall today: 0121 224 7599 Fax: 0121 224 7598

Email: i-wigt@imaginativeminds.co.uk

Getting started

Saving you time and moneySchools using the i-WIGT say that there is a saving of at least 25% in time over the whole teacher appraisal process.

Where you previously lost valuable time sorting through acres of observation papers and deciphering handwritten notes, this information is now instantly recorded for you.

Reports from your collected data can be instantly produced, giving you solid evidence to present to Ofsted, or exported for your School Development Plan.

As individual Performance Management Documents are linked to this school-wide data, you can swiftly identify areas of development across the school, enabling you to target your CPD spend correctly, to the real areas that your school requires.

“The thing that has really sold it to me

is the reduction in bureaucracy and bits

of paper…the i-WIGT is bringing quality

and consistency to our judgements and

the analysis tool has helped us to form a

clear overview of the quality of teaching

and learning and areas for improvement

supported by clear evidence. This has

saved us many hours of work.”Mr Nick Turvey, Headteacher,

Upton Cross Primary School

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