SLICT

The Strategic Leadership of ICT (SLICT) Programme

SLICT is a unique programme designed for head teachers with the help of head teachers.

SLICT focuses on the strategic role of head teachers in leading and developing ICT.

Created in partnership by NCSL and Becta, and run by a select group of national training providers, the programme seeks to engage school leaders in extending and implementing their school's vision for learning. The programme in the past has comprised a three-day residential conference followed by a fourth day, typically 8 - 10 weeks later, and delegates are expected to contribute to on-line activities throughout the programme. The later version of the primary programme comprises a two-day residential followed by a national conference in the following term. This programme is now available to all who are responsible for the Strategic Leadership of ICT but will end in March, 2008.

Read what Di O’ Grady, one of our Hampshire delegates, thought about her SLICT experience here.

S LICT is not a skills-based ICT course, but provides an opportunity for school leaders to enhance their knowledge and understanding of the key issues in ICT and to use technology to strengthen and extend learning in and out of schools.

Anthony, Tony and Gale have been involved in the SLICT programme since its inception in 2002 and formed half of the original Hampshire Training Provider team. Anthony was the Programme director for Hampshire throughout, Gale became the first head teacher representative, having attended a pilot SLICT programme, and Tony led the technical and online support side of the provision. All of us attended, and passed, a high-level training programme to entitle us to work as SLICT facilitators.

The Hampshire team organised nineteen national SLICT events to the end of the most recent cohort (summer 2007) and has not been assigned any further programmes for the much-reduced 2007-08 cohort. Gale will remain involved in the Special School SLICT programme, working with another provider. The Special SLICT programme has been designed to include up to 25% of the cohort from Special Schools alongside the usual primary school head teachers and is adapted to suit both groups.

Gatehouse Partnership was also involved in the Primary Strategic Consultant Leaders’ SLICT training programme and Anthony co-ordinated the contract to set up SLICT Briefing sessions between LEAs and SLICT Providers for the whole of England. The aims of SLICT are consistent with those of Gatehouse, and the company has always regarded its participation in this worthwhile programme as one of the key areas of its activity to date. The latest SLICT materials have been based around the Self Review Framework, leading to the ICT Mark, which Gatehouse is already helping to champion nationally.

Details of the final SLICT programme can be located at www.ncsl.org.uk/slict.

Information about Becta can be located at www.becta.org.uk.

Page Updated: October 2007