Posts tagged ‘school placements’

  1. User research round 2 findings

    Testing the ‘Find placements’ journey with ITT providers

  2. User research round 1 findings

    Testing the ‘Add mentor’ and ‘Add placement’ journeys with school users

  3. Uploading bulk placement data

    We created a bulk upload tool to help ITT providers make changes to multiple trainee records at the same time

  4. Recording trainee placement data

    We added trainee placement data to collect, analyse and better understand how to meet the placement needs of both providers and trainees

  5. The anatomy of a school placement

    Thoughts on what constitutes a school placement

  6. Measuring the success of a school placements service

    Thoughts on ​​service key performance indicators (KPIs)

  7. Experiment 6: Managing school and mentor SEND capabilities

    Exploring how we collect and show school and mentor special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) capabilities

  8. Experiment 5: Managing mentors if you’re a school

    Iterating how schools manage their mentors’ information

  9. Experiment 4: Finding mentors if you’re an ITT provider

    We iterated our second experiment, exploring how providers might find information about mentors

  10. Experiment 3: Exploring how providers might report information about school placements

    We changed our approach from schools and providers adding and finding school placements to providers reporting their school placement needs to DfE

  11. Experiment 2b: Iterating what we show to ITT providers when they search for school placements

    We iterated our first experiment to explore how providers might find information about school placements

  12. Experiment 2a: Iterating how schools add school placements

    We iterated our first experiment exploring how schools might add information about school placements

  13. Experiment 1b: Finding school placements if you’re an ITT provider

    Exploring how providers might find information about school placements

  14. Experiment 1a: Adding school placements if you’re a school

    Exploring how schools might add information about school placements

  15. Defining our problem statements

    We translated our four problem areas into problem statements to give our team and stakeholders clarity and focus

  16. Problems with school placements

    During discovery, we identified several problem areas

  17. Mapping our assumptions

    We mapped our assumptions to understand better which areas of the school placement problem space we should explore

  18. Adding a guidance page about schools and study sites

    We added a new guidance page to help providers understand how to add schools and study sites to a course

  19. Why are we working on school placements?

    Schools play a critical role in delivering Initial Teacher Training (ITT) by providing placements and mentors for trainee teachers, but engagement levels vary

  20. Improving the content above school placements and in the provider search

    We changed the content above the list of school placements and in the provider search to make it more accurate

  21. Removing course vacancies

    We removed course vacancies as this was misleading for candidates

  22. Removing school placement vacancies

    We removed the school placement vacancy status as this was misleading for candidates

  23. Making school placements content more accurate and consistent

    We changed school placements content on course pages to make it accurately reflect the candidates’ experience

  24. Updating how providers manage course vacancies