I travelled up to London last Wednesday to the South East Training Schools regional conference for the public beta launch of their new website, trainingschools.org.uk . The site was put together by Sqoo and designed by Julia Brown, comissioned by the Training and Development Agency For Schools (TDA) in association with Dorothy Stringer School.
The site aims to provide a central place for providers of training to share their work and encourage links between the various providers. From an exercise at the conference, I could appreciate the need for this site, there is a lot of knowledge and resources that need to be shared. It seems that conferences like this one are currently the only way some of this information gets shared.
The site has been built to encourage interaction between members and the posting of materials. At present snapshots of an individuals work, news and events can be posted by registered users as well as being able to participate in online discussions.
The site is currently in beta and is being filled with initial content, public membership will be rolled out in the near future.
To quote from the site:
This site has been developed by Training Schools in the South-East. Training Schools are high-performing schools that have been recognised by the Department for Children Schools and Families as providing exceptional school-based professional development for all their staff. They provide innovative training for support staff and teachers, work closely with providers of Initial Teacher Education and lead the way on training and development for their local authorities and local schools.
Schools and all members of the training school programme believe in sharing innovative and interesting work with all members of the education community.
