I am slowly, but surely getting to grips with updating all of my documentation and I am hoping to upload it onto here in the form of new pages - I believe they are set up to appear to the side of these posts.
Currently I have uploaded my initial plans for y5/6 and an ongoing review of our mobile ICT strategy.
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
Making Progress
I have made some solid progress so far. Reviewing what I already teach to the Year 6 class (this has been uploaded somewhere on this site).
This was a really good exercise to start from scratch and look at what was taught and where gaps may occur. The two areas where there are gaps currently for year 6 are, are not strictly gaps I have just been unable to talk to the Music teacher about her role or commitment to ICT at the moment and I have not fully decided on the final part of the year with regards to work.
I need to make progress on the other years, this should hopefully provide a view across the whole school that we can then look at and discuss. Fingers crossed for sorting this over Easter.
I have also been looking this morning at www.learnerjourney.com, as our school is running a creative curriculum this looks like a good tool. Possibly slightly more geared towards KS3/4 but an interesting site worth a good look, and registration is free!
This was a really good exercise to start from scratch and look at what was taught and where gaps may occur. The two areas where there are gaps currently for year 6 are, are not strictly gaps I have just been unable to talk to the Music teacher about her role or commitment to ICT at the moment and I have not fully decided on the final part of the year with regards to work.
I need to make progress on the other years, this should hopefully provide a view across the whole school that we can then look at and discuss. Fingers crossed for sorting this over Easter.
I have also been looking this morning at www.learnerjourney.com, as our school is running a creative curriculum this looks like a good tool. Possibly slightly more geared towards KS3/4 but an interesting site worth a good look, and registration is free!
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
Planning Outline
Today I have put in the time to create the format for my planning. I liked the layout of the Wokingham LA found at http://www.school-portal.co.uk/GroupHomepage.asp?GroupID=142195
Now... I am not sure that it is the right route for our school, to buy plans and proceed for the next number of years to work from what is contained therein. I have merely used their idea of the format and taken inspiration from their way of dividing up the curriculum.
I have re-organised the strands so that in the future I might link them, and their Chris Quigley inspired targets, with our version of the assessment statements created by http://www.ictplanning.co.uk/.
As part of this review I have been given the opportunity to review what else we could provide to the school's pupils which has been exciting. I have also begun to consider further developments of my ICT practice.
I will upload the framework (in Word format) that I shall build my plans on so that others, should they like, may use them. I hasten to add that all the text at this point is available freely on the pages that I have referenced.
The Next Step
I shall make my own notes about how I meet each strand and shall endeavour to arrange some staff meeting time where I can ask colleagues to suggest where they maybe use ICT, and where we might already be meeting the objectives. This will give me a much better view of the ICT used within the school.
Now... I am not sure that it is the right route for our school, to buy plans and proceed for the next number of years to work from what is contained therein. I have merely used their idea of the format and taken inspiration from their way of dividing up the curriculum.
I have re-organised the strands so that in the future I might link them, and their Chris Quigley inspired targets, with our version of the assessment statements created by http://www.ictplanning.co.uk/.
As part of this review I have been given the opportunity to review what else we could provide to the school's pupils which has been exciting. I have also begun to consider further developments of my ICT practice.
I will upload the framework (in Word format) that I shall build my plans on so that others, should they like, may use them. I hasten to add that all the text at this point is available freely on the pages that I have referenced.
The Next Step
I shall make my own notes about how I meet each strand and shall endeavour to arrange some staff meeting time where I can ask colleagues to suggest where they maybe use ICT, and where we might already be meeting the objectives. This will give me a much better view of the ICT used within the school.
Starting getting to the deep and meaningful consideration of my ICT Curriculum... The key point for me is developing some clear objectives for each year group.
My school has moved to try and develop the creative curriculum using the Chris Quigley skills, this leaves me with a grey area about what will be taught by myself as ICT Teacher and what will be developed as part of project work.
Will these two overlap?
Do I aim for discreet ICT skills being taught without being able to monitor these skills?
Do I, as the subject teacher, teach the more advanced skills?
How to I let staff know what their pupils should be capable of doing?
Clearly all the ICT aims and objectives need to be accessible to all.
I am beginning with finding out what else is out in the wide world to give me ideas. So far my favourite resource is http://www.ictplanning.co.uk/, there are many superb resources contained on here that cannot fail to inspire a creative teacher. The assessment criteria also provide a record for each individual pupil, but I will need to relate them to one set of curriculum criteria or another (Preferably Chris Q).
I still need to develop mobile computing, why does no-one from Microsoft seem to mind about the lack of publicity surrounding Surface in education?
My school has moved to try and develop the creative curriculum using the Chris Quigley skills, this leaves me with a grey area about what will be taught by myself as ICT Teacher and what will be developed as part of project work.
Will these two overlap?
Do I aim for discreet ICT skills being taught without being able to monitor these skills?
Do I, as the subject teacher, teach the more advanced skills?
How to I let staff know what their pupils should be capable of doing?
Clearly all the ICT aims and objectives need to be accessible to all.
I am beginning with finding out what else is out in the wide world to give me ideas. So far my favourite resource is http://www.ictplanning.co.uk/, there are many superb resources contained on here that cannot fail to inspire a creative teacher. The assessment criteria also provide a record for each individual pupil, but I will need to relate them to one set of curriculum criteria or another (Preferably Chris Q).
I still need to develop mobile computing, why does no-one from Microsoft seem to mind about the lack of publicity surrounding Surface in education?
Thursday, 7 March 2013
First Steps
I hope to use this blog as a record of progress in developing a complete ICT Syllabus for my current school where I have been ICT Subject Leader since Sept 2012. I have just finished NQT, at the start of January 2013 and am now in a position to look forwards.
My intention is to address the following problems...
* Little planning existed upon my arrival and there is currently no requirement for me to do any of the EYFS or KS1 ICT teaching. I need to find out what is going on here and support staff.
* The network is run by an external provider making installation and testing of new software difficult with their 2hr a week support contract.
* There is currently no provision for mobile computing other than 2 iPads (More on these another time). We have a fairly small 22 child computer suite to use for all classes (This also has its own possible issues).
Hopefully my journey starts here, with information gained from the online community and my own trial and error we should hopefully have a full ICT plan running in the near future.
My intention is to address the following problems...
* Little planning existed upon my arrival and there is currently no requirement for me to do any of the EYFS or KS1 ICT teaching. I need to find out what is going on here and support staff.
* The network is run by an external provider making installation and testing of new software difficult with their 2hr a week support contract.
* There is currently no provision for mobile computing other than 2 iPads (More on these another time). We have a fairly small 22 child computer suite to use for all classes (This also has its own possible issues).
Hopefully my journey starts here, with information gained from the online community and my own trial and error we should hopefully have a full ICT plan running in the near future.
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