Enabling e-Learning 30 Day challenge: Top tips when recruiting new staff.

1. Enabling e-Learning 30 day leadership challenge
In the month of November, 2011, we
asked people to contribute ONEtop
tipwhen recruiting new
staff to help sustain
e-learning in your school.
The following slides are a collation of
30 top tips.We hope you find this
useful when recruiting new staff in
the future.
Thank you to everyone who
contributed in some way.
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2. Top Tip 1
Employers:
Offer your applicants
the choice of submitting their
application as a videoand/or
presentation.
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3. Top Tip 2
Employee:
Express excitement about
learning using e-
technologiesfor the purposes
of greater educational
achievement.

4. Top Tip 3
Employee:
Create and share a
digital multimedia
CV to capture how you
already communicate
and share online as
well demonstrating the
richness of your career
experiences.
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5. Top Tip 4
Employers:
Put your application
informationonline as
digital material for
prospective applicants
to download.
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6. Top Tip 5
Employee:
Don’t get caught up in theflashlywhizz-bang tools.
It’s really about effective integrationthroughout the
curriculum - to support, relevant and meaningful
tasks. The pedagogy behind it.
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7. Top Tip 6
Employers:
Take extra notice of those teachers
using on-line environments as part
of what they do everyday.
Ask if they are they part of a
collaborative network? On Twitter?
Do they have their own or a class
blog? Is it current?
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8. Top Tip 7
Employee:
Put forward a CV which stands out from the
crowd, whether it be interactive or online, or in a
creative format to get attention. This must include
the "meat in the sandwich" as well.
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9. Top Tip 8
Employers:
Have a section in the application to show an
indication of how comfortable that person is with
e-learning and if they are willing to accept the
challenge to up skill if need be.
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10. Top Tip 9
Employee:
Ask yourself,
1. Have I immersedand
applied myselfalongside my
students in the Inquiry and
e-Learning process?
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11. Top Tip 10
Employee:
Ask yourself,
2. Have I collected my own
evidential data along the
way using a range of
synchronous and
asynchronousmediums?
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12. Top Tip 11
Employee:
Ask yourself,
1. Am I or have I proactively
engaged in some form of
recorded reflective
practice, paper or
online, alone and also with
others? 12

13. Top Tip 12
Employers:
Ask open-ended questions like "what role does
ICT/e-learning play in your classroom?"
That way it opens the door for the teacher to offer
their views/skills/knowledge on the topic without
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14. Top Tip 13
Employers:
Look for applicants who have a track record of
reflection...could be a blog, a journal, or
contributions to a community, or it could be
private reflections conducted in an ePortfolio
around planning professional goals.
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15. Top Tip 14
Employee:
Use a platform like
MyPortfolio to create a
digital CV and model they
way we want out students to
share.
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16. Top Tip 15
Employers:
When selecting new applicants, look for informal
examples of professional learning-such as the
discussions in online professional
learningcommunities as well as more formal
occasions and events.
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17. Top Tip 16
Employee:
Have some level of understanding around effective e-
learning pedagogy, as well as the basics around
daily use of commonly used technologies and tools -
laptops, email, web2.0, internet use and safety. 17

18. Top Tip 17
Employers:
Look for applicants with
the ability to show
alignment/coherence
between his/her vision for
learning, the principles
which sit behind this
vision through to the
practices in the
classroom. Ask them how
they "walk the talk”.
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19. Top Tip 18
Employee:
Have a willingness to try new things and adapt to
new technologiesyoumay not have previously
used, (eg interactive whiteboards). Use/see the
benefits of effective ICT use in today’s classrooms.
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20. Top Tip 19
Employers:
Add into job descriptions - the ability to have
some e-learning skills or show energy around e-
learning and a willingnessto be open minded to
learnall the new skills in this 21st century.
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21. Top Tip 20
Employers:
Include students in your interview panel. You will
learn a lot about the way the applicant interacts
with them. Debrieffully with the students to find out
what insights they have gained.
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22. Top Tip 21
Employers:
Ask applicantshow they already (or might) cater
for diversity in their classrooms.
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23. Top Tip 22
Employee:
In the context of catering for diversity in the
classroom, show how you encourage learners to
share where they come from and what inspires
themoutside school.
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24. Top Tip 23
Employers:
Ask applicants to describe how they might create
environments (digital media, hands-on
experiences, text and visual images, video) -
where learners can expresstheir understanding
in different ways that are meaningful for them. 24

25. Top Tip 24
Employers:
Look to see if
applicants are always
thinking about
multiple methods for
sharing information
and instruction -
recognising that
learners are engaged
in different ways at
differenttimes. 25

26. Top Tip 25
Employers:
Ask an applicant to describe how they use the
tools of e-learning to personalize and diversify
learning for individual students. 26

27. Top Tip 26
Employers:
When looking at beginning teachers (as well as a
good CV); look at the fine detailsthrough their
practicum reports, rank from their referees,
interestsand strengths alongside those of the
school and whether they exhibit the "X Factor" -
something which stands them out from a large
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crowd.

28. Top Tip 27
Employers:
Ask an applicant how they
use e-learningtools to scaffold home/school
partnerships - foster learning and engagement?
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29. Top Tip 28
21st Century learner,
risk-taker, teacher
Employers:
Look for the person
first. If the person
impresses the committee
with their abilities to
learn, then they will be
able to learn to
effectively integratee-
learninginto their
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classroom.

30. Top Tip 29
Employee:
Think about combining a paper and digital
application. That way you ensure potential employers
can print material as well as viewonline.
For the brave, on the last page add a QR code to
your digital CV online.
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31. Top Tip 30
Employers:
Consider new ways to accept written referees/
reports – such as creating a questionnaire in
SurveyMonkey and asking refereesto complete.
The ease and convenience of gathering this
information online is our Top Tip #30.
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