ePace helps teachers deliver effective lessons to raise pupil attainment at The Education Show 2012
ePace
STAND D73
EDUCATION SHOW
NEC, BIRMINGHAM
15th – 17th MARCH 2012
ePace (www.epaceonline.com) will be on stand D73 at The Education Show 2012, demonstrating its online learner profiling tool – a 45-minute test that evaluates a child’s strengths and weaknesses in 11 critical areas of learning. ePace enables teachers to identify how best pupils learn and helps every pupil to reach their full potential. It will also assist schools in adhering to the new Ofsted framework, which will see inspectors spending more time in classrooms looking at the quality of teaching and focusing on raising attainment. ePace is also celebrating having been shortlisted for the Innovation Award at the Education Resource Awards - winners will be announced on Friday 16th March.
As part of the new Ofsted framework, which was introduced earlier this year, teachers will be expected to demonstrate personalised teaching that is based on a pupil’s individual requirements, and schools will be expected to demonstrate how appropriate strategies have impacted on learning. ePace allows teachers to identify areas, such as literacy, that a child may be struggling with. Once both the teacher and pupil understand how best the individual learns, this information can be used to tailor teaching methods, ensuring that the pupil understands what is being taught and is able to reach their full potential while fulfilling the new Ofsted requirements.
Recognising that effective teaching leads to better results, ePace will be showcasing its full range of teacher resources, check lists and strategies at The Education Show to inspire and assist teachers in their lesson planning and teaching approaches. Along with this, visitors to the stand can also see new interactive elements, such as online video tutorials and social networking, which are helping a community of teachers and professionals to interact with and learn from one another. Users can join in with the educational community via the blog (http://www.epaceonline.com/index.php/blog) and can access the online tutorials that demonstrate best practice of the ePace tool. Full demonstrations of ePace, a variety of learner profiles highlighting the scope and depth of the software and additional teaching features will also be demonstrated at the show.
Mary Blake, ex-teacher and Educational Consultant at ePace, comments: “We are extremely excited to be exhibiting at The Education Show and to have the opportunity to demonstrate just how useful ePace can be to teachers and learners in order to provide personalised learning.
“ePace looks at how children learn, rather than simply what they are learning. With the implementation of the new Ofsted framework and in the changing educational market where schools are becoming more autonomous, budgets are being cut and teachers are under increased pressure to produce results, this is more important than ever. Educational assessments can be very subjective, however, by using these results along with a child’s ePace profile, teachers can gauge rounded information about the child to ensure that they are taught in a way that encourages them to reach their full potential. Effective teaching and planning helps teachers to bring the best out in every pupil, and involving the child in the learning process helps them become partners of learning, rather than just recipients of knowledge.”
Along with discounts, promotions and treats, visitors to the stand will also have the chance to win a free ePace licence for their school for a year! ePace staff will also be on hand to answer any queries, demonstrate the online profiling tool and talk through what the learner profile shows.
To find out more about how your school could benefit from ePace, please visit: www.epaceonline.com, tel: 0333 123 1810, e-mail: info@epaceonline.com or Tweet @ePaceonline.
For press information please contact Hannah Riordan, Livewire Public Relations, on 020 8339 7440 or email: hannah.riordan@livewirepr.com.
About ePace:
ePace is a division of Dynevor CIC, a community interest company that specialises in providing assessment tools and practical intervention programmes to create optimal learning and promote innovation in education.
About Professor Rod Nicolson:
Professor Rod Nicolson is a cognitive psychologist by training, specialising in human and organisational learning. He has extensive experience in analysing and supporting learning in education, and received a national Partnership Award for innovative educational software, a Leverhulme Trust / Royal Society Senior Research Fellowship for his research on dyslexia, and a University of Sheffield Award for Excellence in the Leadership of Learning and Teaching.
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