Having spent 18 months or so building the ICT syllabus at my school, I understandably know all that is in it and why it is there.
It occurred to me that, whilst this is a clear necessity, it would also be useful for other staff to better understand what we do in ICT. There are terms and phrases that I use that leave fellow colleagues looking confused , or at worst, has them switch off entirely.
As such I have devised a curriculum leaflet for ICT. We create these as a matter of course within each year group to describe the content of the term's work. This is given to parents so that they can reinforce at home, keep up with the learning or try and add to it. With my ICT leaflet, I have tried to summarise the areas of ICT that my scheme of work falls into. This, I hope, allows staff, parents or even the pupils themselves to better understand 'what programming is' or 'what we mean by multimedia'.
My colour-coding system is also included to ensure that my self assessment booklet, teacher assessment grid and other literature match up to one another.
The leaflet is available via GoogleDocs at the following link https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4s7hMWhfvHleEVxb2IxUFlxckU/edit?usp=sharing
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