I am moving on to a secondary school, an interesting job and back to my teaching roots. It is really nice to have to move from the theoretical frameworks of blended learning back into the reality of the classroom.
So how do you teach ICT skills to 15 -16 year olds, i have the curriculum and it bored me… so here is the plan, and over the next 2 years lets see if it can work.
I am hoping to set up a newspaper (don’t be afraid Bournemouth Echo), within this setting must be almost all of the IT skills needed to pass a GNVQ ICT at least to level 3 or the BTEC equivalent.
Word processing is easy, if you conduct an interview you will at some point input it to a WP package, also students will need to cover stages such as the standards here, which comprise the learning needed for 1 whole unit.
“Documents can be divided into six basic types. These are:
• short formal documents
• extended formal documents
• graphical documents
• promotional documents
• presentations
• informal documents.”
The school is aptly named St Aldhelm, i suspect the patron saint of un-orthodox teaching if he is not then maybe he should be
Also on the School website is the primary vision for learning and teaching which i think sounds great a real move away from the industrial teaching we have inherited from the Victorians, and a positive move towards teaching for learners.
So as I don’t want to miss the opportunity of capturing this experience in a blog this will be the theme for the next two years.
