Sharing your Good Practice
The Link2Learn website is designed to help schools and ESIS share good practice in a structured, easily accessible format. The format comprises a Learning Journal and Supporting Documentation. The Learning Journal is a written overview of the good practice that provides the reader with a quick understanding of the aims, activity and outcomes of the work. The supporting documentation provides more detail through comprehensive case studies, photographs, presentations and so on.
If you would like to share your best practice with schools, you can do so by submitting your case study to the website. The process is simple and straightforward with the website guiding you through the process.
Guidelines
The Learning Journal provides a brief overview of the aims, activity and outcomes of the practice, demonstrating the learning for both pupils and teachers alike. It is presented as six key questions that MUST be completed in the following order. Please keep your answers brief and use bullet points where you can. You can submit more detailed information in the form of a case study.
1. What was the focus for improvement?
2. What did we do?
3. What were the outcomes?
4. What evidence have we collected to demonstrate improvements?
5. What have we learnt about teaching practice and pupils learning?
6. What we aim to do next
We recommend you copy and paste the above questions into a word document and complete your Learning Journal in the word document and then copy this into the website.
You can upload additional files to support your Learning Journal, for example photographs, PowerPoint presentations, scanned copies of pupils' work and so on. Please limit your entry to three supporting documents per Learning Journal. Select carefully, which files demonstrate your aims, activity and outcomes the most. Please ensure file size of each document is as small as possible (minimising photographs) as upload and download times will be very slow for large files. Note that files exceeding 10mb cannot be uploaded. Please ensure that you have permission from parents before taking photographs of or filming pupils and have additional permission for publishing the images on the internet. We request that you blank out the faces of children, so that their identity is secure.
Thank you for sharing your good practice.
Uploading your Good Practice
Please ensure you have read the guidelines before following the instructions for uploading your material.
Before you can submit your good practice to the website you must register to the site and be logged in.
Important: This process must be followed from start to finish in one session. You cannot save your work mid-point. Please do not press the "back" button on your internet browser or you will lose the information you have already entered.
1. Click on edit articles (top right hand corner of the screen)
2. Under the grey heading add a new article type the title of your best practice article
3. In the drop down box choose whether you are entering your article in English (En) or Welsh (Cy)
4. Click add article
5. At this stage the new article title will appear in the list of articles that you have added, with the time and date it was created. You then have a choice to delete the article, edit/add the English (En) or Welsh (Cy). Click on the language you wish to enter
6. The title of the article will appear at the top of the screen
7. Enter any keywords that you think will be relevant for people when searching (you can leave this blank if you wish)
8. Choose your school from the drop down list
9. Paste your text into the description box, ensuring that your text follows the structure outlined in the guidelines
10. To add supporting documentation, click add new file
Rank – enter a number that represents the order you wish the document to appear in. e.g. 1, if you want the article to appear 1st, 2 for second etc.
Current – leave blank
Title – give your document a title that is unique and meaningful
Description – a sentence to describe the content of the attachment
Alt text – copy and paste your description into this box
Multi-language box – if you only have your article available in one language, please tick this box. This will mean it will appear when people view the article in both English and Welsh.
If you wish to add another file, click add new file, and follow process 10 again.
11. Choose the phase(s) that are relevant to the article
12. Choose the module(s) / skill(s) that are relevant to the article
13. Choose the subject(s) that are relevant to the article
14. Click submit
This means that your article has been submitted to ESIS. It will not go live until an administrator at ESIS has verified the content.
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