Smart Classrooms Planning Cycle

Overview

The Smart Classrooms Planning Cycle helps state schools describe, measure and report on their progress in realising the goal of Smart Classrooms: to make ICT integral to learning.

Four key elements make up the planning cycle.

• School ICT Census is an annual survey of schools that provides data that helps establish every school's ICT Index planning level, calculates annual School ICT Grants and informs strategic planning processes.
• School ICT Index is a simple indicator that represents the level of interaction between the resources that need to come together across the four ICT Drivers to ensure ICT is integral to learning in every school.
• School ICT Plans are mandatory annual resourcing plans negotiated by all schools detailing how they intend to allocate resources to meet their individual targets for each ICT Driver.

The cycle reflects the processes schools use to plan, measure and report on their progress towards embedding ICT into teaching and learning. It is an important part of the Department's Strategic Plan.

Main objective

The Smart Classrooms Planning Cycle provides schools with a mechanism for planning, measuring and reporting on their progress towards embedding ICT into teaching and learning.

Achievement of the objective

The Smart Classrooms Planning Cycle is used to:

• gather and analyse data collected from each school's ICT census return
• calculate every school's ICT grant allocation
• provide every school with a School ICT Index Report
• report on the integration of ICT into curriculum delivery
• collect information for a range of strategic planning and resourcing issues.

Timeline of key aspects

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