ICT Training for Teachers
Secondary Core - ICT across
the national curriculum
ICT capability is applicable across a wide
variety of curricular contexts and it is considered necessary
that pupils develop their ICT knowledge, understanding and skills
in a range of subjects in a co-ordinated way that ensures they
gain coherent ICT experiences.
ICT capability is described in terms of
the use of information in solving problems through the effective
application of ICT tools, as appropriate, in other curriculum
subjects. This requires the development of ICT skills, knowledge
and understanding in a co-ordinated way that at the same time
supports learning in those other subjects themselves.
A useful introduction to such wide application
of ICT is through the case studies described in guidance material
published by SCAA, other published material or working with a
colleague who has some experience of such teaching.
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- Activity
To understand that ICT is a subject taught
in the contexts of other curriculum subjects but ensuring coherence
as well as breadth
OBJECTIVES
- To understand that ICT is a cross-curricular
skill within the National Curriculum
- To understand that ICT capability must
be developed and demonstrated across a range of curriculum contexts
re-selecting a number of foundation subjects
- To know that the statutory orders for
all foundation subjects (except PE) require that appropriate
opportunities are given for pupils to develop their ICT capabilities
- To know that developing ICT capability
is a shared responsibility in a school
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- QUESTIONS
- Where might ICT support a pupil's learning
in another subject?
- Consider where a pupil might usefully
word process a document, record some information, model a real
event or system, record a physical change or control a device
- identify the subject and topic taught.
- Could ICT be used in a subject you have
expertise in?
- Choose work you are familiar with and
identify opportunities for incorporating ICT usefully.
- How might this experience be used also
to progress in ICT?
- Use the ICT Programme of Study to identify
opportunities for developing ICT capability and skills in the
chosen subject. (Make sure the levels of work are within the
same key stage.)
- How could schemes of work be combined?
- Using a scheme of work for the subject
and identify opportunities for developing ICT capability at an
appropriate level. Write out a combined scheme with reference
to Programmes of Study.
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- SELF
EVALUATION
- Do you understand how ICT capability can
be developed across a range of curricular contexts?
- There are certainly opportunities to
use ICT in a way that supports any subject at one time or another,
realising the opportunity might depend on insurmountable barriers
which might be addressed only through additional or modified
allocation of resources or professional development.
- Do you feel confident in identifying opportunities
for developing ICT capability within a subject you have expertise
in?
- There are useful examples in SCAA/CAAW
Key Stages 1 & 2, Information Technology, the new requirements
and Key Stage 3, Information Technology, the new requirements
(1995).
