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IEP Wales

Our Legacy

International Professional Learning Communities

• Fully funded

• Chance to collaborate with schools, districts, organisations and networks in other countries

• Improve learning outcomes

• Targets Literacy, Numeracy & Reducing the Impact of Poverty on Attainment

• Unique to Wales

International Professional Learning Communities

• Canada- Literacy

• New Zealand- Bilingual Education

• USA (Washington, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles)- Reducing the Impact of Poverty on Attainment

• India (Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata)- Maths and Numeracy

IPLC Canada- Improving Literacy

• Practitioner informed policy.

• Professional development.

• Sharing effective practice.

USA – Reducing the Impact of Poverty on Attainment

• Internal school impact assessment reviews have demonstrated extensive impacts on the cluster group:

•  School Practice Changes

• School Policy changes.

• IPLC groups have been invited back to US (Cincinatti- Schools Conference) to showcase changes made in Welsh schools due to IPLCs.

India- Maths and Numeracy

• Has enabled schools in Wales to carry out appreciative enquiries into

• Methods used to teach numerical skills

(witnessed practical and visual activities such as teaching maths through yoga and problem solving linked to everyday situations)

• Resources used

(online programmes, computer based self learning programmes, Montessori resources, themed activities)

• Learner outcomes in numeracy

(witnessing outcomes in an education system with less constraints to the national curriculum)

India- Maths and Numeracy (continued)

Led to:

• Writing of success criteria

• Refinement of schools curriculum in Wales

• Refinement of schools assessment for learning procedures against the Welsh National Numeracy Framework.

• Best practice being disseminated through systems leaders, school governors and National Support Programme partners.

• Further opportunities through different programmes.

Chinese Language Assistants

• Over 50 Welsh schools benefitted

• Chance to develop educational and cultural links

• Taught across all key stages

• Enhances school ethos

• Led to visits from Chinese teachers and pupils (example)

Chinese Language Assistants

• Engaging with the wider community

• Help eliminate stereotyping and discrimination

• Improve communication between schools and Chinese parents.

• Boosts cultural understanding.

The IEP Network

Organisations we’ve worked with in Wales:

• CILT Cymru• ColegauCymru• RoutesCymru• Connect Cymru• Fair Trade Wales• Oxfam Cymru• Cyfanfyd• Christian Aid• Welsh for Adults Centre• Confucius Institute• Dolen Cymru

The IEP Network

Organisations we’ve worked with Worldwide:

• Hanban (China)• Confucius Institute• DC Centre on Global Education Leadership (USA)• Flamboyan Federation (USA)• Academy for Urban School Leadership (AUSL)• Chicago Public Schools (CPS)• Children’s Aid Society, New York• Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universitites (Ontario, Canada)• Ministry of Education, New Zealand

iepwales@britishcouncil.org

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