Services
Provided
Updated March 2010
Professional Services to
Schools 2010 to 2011
The Lincolnshire School
Improvement Service (LSIS) provides a range of services to assist
schools offering high-quality induction and continuous professional
development of the workforce. The services have been designed
to reflect the Strategy for School Workforce Development which was
devised and agreed with LCC and the elected members at the start of
the CfBT/Lincolnshire County Council contract. Many of
these services have dedicated sections of the website
including:
This itself was based on a thorough analysis
at the time and informed by the national CPD strategy and a
widespread consultation with schools. A key feature to
emerge from that was the emergence of a PDA or Professional
Development Agreement. The content is revised each
year based on feedback from schools and others, needs analysis of
Lincolnshire, changing local, regional and national priorities
including the CYPP and the changing role of LSIS – for
example, the extension of managed services.
The Strategy is informed by the national CPD
Strategy and reinforced by the recent TDA priorities.
The result has been a Strategy that:
- is inclusive – that a range of provision
should be available to all the main categories of staff involved
with the school community;
- helps schools and individuals to become more
effective discriminators of induction and development;
- encourages schools to make decisions on
provision through acting as a communication channel and advocate
for all high-quality provision available;
- works closely with partners and within the
region to make high-quality provision accessible to Lincolnshire
staff;
- works with schools to ensure
“value-for-money” provision;
- is determined by “needs” and
“aspirations” as traded services and is focused at a range of
levels – national, regional, school, area and
individual. It accords closely with the TDA and DCSF
principles that “schools and individuals are largely responsible
for their own development”.