Teaching ITC - Do and Don't

DO....

• Use a scheme of work as the basis for planning your ICT lessons.

• Use computers in a meaningful way to enhance the subject and not distract from it.

• Devise activities that require pupils to share a computer, because computers are excellent for encouraging collaborative learning.

• Plan your lessons so that the computer-based work and the non-computer-based work are similar in terms of intended learning outcomes.

• Adopt the model of showing the pupils as a class how to do something on the computer, and then getting them to practise it in that lesson and to repeat that practice in subsequent lessons.

DON'T....

• Underestimate what your pupils are capable of doing and understanding on the computer.

• Focus on dealing with the software at the expense of the real learning task.

• Leave it to the last minute to begin the end of the lesson, especially if the pupils have to print out their work.

• Leave it until the end of the lesson to give out the homework.

• Give out homework that can be done only on a computer.