Best Practice

Risking IT

School management
The RiskIT initiative is about getting all staff using IT as a means to improve teaching. With RiskIT week approaching, its creator Abderrahmane Benjeddi explains more.

RiskIT is a strategy that anyone can apply within their school. Staff and students enjoy it and it has a positive impact on learning.

At Northfleet School for Girls, we have tried different strategies to embed ICT across the curriculum – peer-to-peer support, an “Innovations Team” (a selected few supporting all staff), department ICT leaders as well as digital leaders. Nothing was completely effective. 

Since we started using the RiskIT strategy, however, I have noticed a change in culture in the use of ICT. 

Most schools have ICT champions and digital leaders doing great things. This is to be commended and maintained, but there is a question that still needs answering – what about the rest? Are the other teachers all using ICT “innovatively” to support their teaching? If not, how can they be supported to catch-up with the few who are? This is where RiskIT can help.

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