Warwick in Schools and Warwick in AfricaIntroduction Presentation

October 2015

Mrs Pam Price

Warwick in Schools(WinS) – what is it?

• Scheme for students with three key aims:

1. To enable students to gain academic credit through IE3E[1,2,3]

2. To encourage highly qualified undergraduates to consider a career in teaching

3. To raise the aspirations of learners in school

What happens next?...

• WinS Administrator: Jane Allenwins@warwick.ac.uk

• WinS registration form:

Link from module pages

Completing the form:

• Subject to teach for students studying:• Economics - Maths• Computer Science - Maths• Engineering - Physics• Training sessions 5.30 – 7.30pm:

Tues (Maths) – indicate availability

Wed (Maths/Physics/Chemistry)

Completing the form (contd)

• Your availability for half-day placements• Transport – car?• Contact details – mobile number• DBS checks

DBS Clearance

• Christine D’Cruz

School placement

• Placement allocation: organised according to your availability and school placement offers

• Transport: make your own arrangements wherever possible, you are responsible for covering the cost of this.

• If necessary we may be able to help arrange transport to more distant schools, in which case you will be expected to pay at least £5 per day towards the cost. Journeys to some schools could cost £70 for the 10 day placement.

WinS – Compulsory Placement briefing meeting

• When?:

Wednesday 9th December 1-3pm• Where?

L5

Why compulsory?

Placement details given out and chance to organise transport with other students

WinS – How is it linked to Warwick in Africa?

• WinS students can apply for a place on our Warwick in Africa teaching Project

• WinS students are often placed in schools with high levels of social deprivation in Coventry and surrounding counties for their teaching experience.

Warwick must be able to help …..

Summer 2006

• £30,000 • 12 maths students• Township schools• And lot of good luck ..

Not easy to do homework

42 taps for 45,000 people Missing generations

There’s loads of enthusiasm

And talent…

…but you can’t always win!

And the impact?

“The University of Warwick programme is revolutionising our thinking on Mathematics education.”

Dr Edward Mosuwe, Chief Director, Further Education and Training, Ministry of Education for South Africa

A replicable model: South Africa, Tanzania & Ghana

Despite the resources or lack of them….

There’s loads of other talent too

In 2015• 64 students taught in Africa this summer:

42 in SA, 12 in Tanzania and 10 in Ghana (English and Maths)

• 17 teachers delivered CPD training to teachers in Ghana and South Africa

• 3 more teachers came to Warwick from S. Africa and 4 from Ghana at the end of September for the CPD Study and training course

Remember….

• Complete online WinS registration form• Check you have necessary documents

and attend the DBS documents session on Wednesday 11th November

• Attend Placement Briefing meeting on Wednesday 9th December 1pm in L5

• WiA applications now open http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/giving/priority/responsibility/wina/getinvolved/students

• WiA closing date: 10 Jan 2014