This project highlighted the impact on outstanding teaching, learning and assessment offered by incorporating widely available, free online tools – Google Apps, Google Classroom and others – into strategies to engage vocational 16 to 19-year-old students in digital media, painting & decorating and at Redbridge College, hospitality and catering.
The project followed the process of offering successful approaches in helping students to become enthusiastic, independent learners, ready for work or progression, to tutors with groups whose engagement and performance needed improving.
Advanced practitioner support helped each tutor to plan the introduction of new activities according to student profiles. Course leaders in hospitality and catering strongly linked the development of practice using free online tools with improved student retention, punctuality and attendance. Everyone in this group was also progressing this year, showing an increase in work completed outside of class, with no permanent loss of work or evidence rejected. The other areas also experienced positive results with higher performance expected across all groups by the end of the year.
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