• How the Framework helps Local Authorities develop quality provision in schools
• The impact on Local Authorities provision: What Local Authorities say
• The NACE Challenge Award - Regional Training 2010
• Criteria for working as an Assessor of school's provision
• The Challenge Award NACE- Local Authority Partnership
• Registration form for Assessors in Microsoft Word format
  
  

• Links with EDP priorities for developing well-targeted activities to support Able, Gifted and Talented provision;
• Enables LAs to network schools with a common strategic aim;
• Provides external recognition from NACE that schools have quality provision through the gaining of the Challenge Award.

“The Challenge Award has given us a specific and rigorous Framework to audit and action plan for Able, Gifted and Talented pupils as a whole school; also an award from NACE to acknowledge the quality of our provision."(An A,G&T Co-ordinator).

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LA Adviser:
"The Framework is … a clear way forward for rolling out Able, Gifted and Talented across the Borough."

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Training Day 1: School Improvement using The NACE Challenge Award

Over 300 advisers and directors have already attended saying that this training is one of the best gifted and talented development events, because it gives you:

• An in-depth exemplification of the 10 Elements which together constitute quality provision
• An understanding of how to lead the development of robust school based self-evaluation
• Clear guidance on how to introduce and rollout the Framework and its Supporting Documents in your schools
• Ideas for using the Framework to support across-school evaluation of G&T provision
• The process by which to meet National Quality Standards for G&T Education

Programme

December 10th 2009
Venue: Rodborough Primary School, Rodborough Hill, Stroud,
Gloucestershire, GL5 3RT

Cost: £285+VAT
Member’s rate and early bookings (before 31st October 2009): £220

Booking Form

Training Day 2:  Challenge Award Assessors’ Training
For LA Advisers, SIPs and Inspectors, (Training is also open, by invitation, to consultants and headteachers working across schools who may become accredited as Support Assessors)

Develop your school improvement and evaluation skills by becoming a NACE accredited Challenge Award Lead Assessor and joining our team of national Lead Assessors.

This accreditation will enable you to assess schools in your area or nationally; providing an external verification of quality practice for A,G&T and a ‘challenge for all’ approach.

“The Assessors were thoroughly professional and rigorous. They got to know us really well. The feedback was incisive and will certainly challenge us.” R McDevitt (HT)

For those who are interested in becoming NACE Challenge Award Assessors, you must attend both Training Days 1 & 2.  To check if you meet the criteria to become an Assessor in your LA, please click here  

Programme

January 21st 2010
Venue: Rodborough Primary School, Rodborough Hill, Stroud,
Gloucestershire, GL5 3RT

Cost: £285+VAT
Member’s rate and early bookings: £220 (Before December 1st 2009)

Booking Form

Would you like a place?
You are very welcome whether or not you have started to use The NACE Challenge Award Framework and its Supporting Documents as the main tool and process for achieving the DCSF Quality Standards for Gifted and Talented Education.

Training is delivered by Rachel Feneck, Education Director and National Lead Assessor for The NACE Challenge Award.

Criteria for working as a Challenge Award Assessor

1. Accredited Ofsted Inspector or local authority adviser with at least 3 years experience of undertaking whole school reviews in a range of schools
   
2. Specialist knowledge of A, G and T Education
   
3. Attendance at 2 day training comprising of:
   Day 1: Challenge Award Training for local authorities
   Day 2: Challenge Award Training for Assessors

Assessors will also need to attend the Challenge Award Conference

To apply, please send your CV with copy of certificate/s of accreditation to

Click here to apply online

Julie Fitzpatrick
Chief Executive
NACE National Office
P.O. Box 242
Arnolds Way
Oxford
OX2 9FR

juliefitzpatrick@nace.co.uk

t: 01865 861879
f: 01865 861880

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Training for Challenge Award Assessors
This training day is to equip people, who meet the criteria for working as an Assessor and have attended the obligatory Training Day for Local Authorities, to undertake assessment of schools.

However, we receive many requests from advisers who do not yet meet the criteria but have attended the Training Day for Local Authorities, are using the Framework with schools and feel that attending the Assessors’ Training would give them greater insight to better support schools.

To accommodate this, we are able to invite such people to attend the training day, as observers. These individuals, if working in a school improvement capacity with a number of schools, may be eligible to support Lead Assessors on Audit days.

Next dates for training days are to be confirmed

Delegate fee: £275.00 + VAT

Click here to view Assessors Training Day Programme PowerPoint show


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Local authorities can enter into a partnership with NACE to administer the accreditation of The NACE Challenge Award within their own schools. Operating a partnership arrangement brings benefits to schools and colleges in the local authority as the Elements and criteria of the Framework help to build a shared agenda for improvement between establishments, providing a basis for developing quality practice and approaches to sustainable self evaluation.

Supporting schools in working towards the Award provides those working in the field of school improvement, a Framework to support the development of rigorous school based self-evaluation. The opportunity to assess the schools within the authority can provide a good source of locally based professional development for experienced advisors and inspectors.  Along with the means to gain additional information about the breadth of best A,G&T practice within local schools, so that this can shared amongst schools and across different phases.

What are the benefits of partnership?

1. The NACE Challenge Award Framework materials provide LAs with a clear set of accessible criteria to judge the quality of A,G&T provision across a wide range of schools.
2. The NACE Challenge Award materials will help you to evidence the quality of their support to schools for Ofsted.
3. Partnership LAs determine the level of charging to their schools and retain income for your LA.
4. The opportunity to lead and manage the Assessment process enhances the professional development opportunities for LA advisers and local headteachers in your LA.
5. One-to-one induction for your first assessment including feedback as part of your on-going professional development for senior staff.
6. Regular quality assurance and feedback from NACE.
7. Reduced cost training for other LA advisers to become Accredited Assessors

In return for an annual subscription NACE will provide the Partnership LA with:

1. The right to assess schools for The NACE Challenge Award.
2. The right to set their own scale of charges within their LA and retain any income.
3. One free place for The NACE Challenge Award Training & Assessor Training (held on two separate days) for an additional person meeting the criteria for an Assessor in each year of the partnership. NB initial training of a Lead Assessor is charged separately
4. One free place at a national or regional Challenge Award Conference or training event
5. A Lead Assessor at the first assessment in the first annual partnership and in ensuing years of partnership a joint review of processes. NB Travel and any accommodation costs to be paid as an additional amount by the LA.
6. One NACE Challenge Award Supporting Documents subscription (accessed via the NACE website), for use of Partnership’s named contact only,  with regular development and case study material.
7. Access to online support and advice from the Director of Education / National Lead Assessor for The NACE Challenge Award.
8. A Kite Mark for LAs with 50% of schools achieving the Challenge Award.
9. Regular updates for Assessors.
10. A Challenge Award Administration Support Pack for Local Authorities, containing the standard letters and procedures you need to operate Challenge Award Assessment.

What is the annual cost? Dependent on the size of the local authority and on a sliding scale as follows:

What are Local Authorities committed to?

1. Using only The NACE Challenge Award Framework to assess schools.
2. Complying with all The NACE Challenge Award procedures and Quality Assurance (as set out in the Assessor’s Handbook).
3. Ensuring that any personnel leading Assessments meet the criteria to be a Lead Assessor.
4. Ensuring that any personnel supporting Assessments have attended NACE’s Assessors’ training.
5. Annual monitoring of the maintenance of standards in schools with The NACE Challenge Award.
6. Re-assessing schools every 4 years.
7. Regularly passing on NACE updates to schools and supporting schools in their authority.
8. Each year to attend a national or regional Challenge Award Conference or training event with one free place given.
9. Adhering to NACE copyright requirements.

Click here for downloadable application form

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