Embedding ICT Across the Curriculum

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Embedding ICT Across the Curriculum Reduced
version
Primary National Strategy Conferences Autumn Term
2004
Sarah Cook Primary National Strategy
Consultant Ian Vardy School Development Adviser
ICT
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Resources used at the Embedding Conferences are
media rich and include links to other files and
documents which cannot be included in this
reduced version of the presentation. However
the notes for slides are included and summarise
the key points at each of the examples.
Example
Primary National Strategy and Education ICT
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Aim of this Conference
To explore with you the embedding of ICT across
the curriculum within the context of Excellence
and Enjoyment and the developing Primary National
Strategy.
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Embedding yet another e-word!

• what does embedding look like in the classroom?
• what are the expectations on teachers and
  teaching?
• what will be the impact on learning and
  learners?
• what support is available to help schools build
  on and improve existing practice?
• what do teachers and schools need to do?

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Planning for Embedding
Knights Templar First School, Watchet
Example
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Embedding yet another e-word!

• what does embedding look like in the classroom?
• what are the expectations on teachers and
  teaching?
• what will be the impact on learning and
  learners?
• what support is available to help schools build
  on and improve existing practice?
• what do teachers and schools need to do?

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Example
Embedding ICT in Practice Year 2 Maths
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• Reflect on the current practice in your school.
• Identify examples of effective practice in
  terms of embedding ICT in learning and teaching
  across the curriculum.
• Share your current strengths with a group of
  colleagues.
• For each group identify two or three examples
  of effective practice to report back to the
  rest of the Conference.

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Embedding yet another e-word!

• what does embedding look like in the classroom?
• what are the expectations on teachers and
  teaching?
• what will be the impact on learning and
  learners?
• what support is available to help schools build
  on and improve existing practice?
• what do teachers and schools need to do?

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The changing policy context
Focus on Pedagogy teaching and learning and
whole school development
Focus on ICT infrastructure, connectivity and
Professional Development
ICT in Schools 2003-2006
NGFL 1998- 2002
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Developing professional Leadership
Embedding ICT across the Curriculum
Developing Pupil Capability
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OFSTED report effective practice A Somerset
School during 2003-2004
The evidence shows that ICT is used well to help
the pupils extend their understanding in most
areas of the curriculum. This is most pronounced
in English where pupils regularly word process
their work. However, it is also evident in
subjects such as history and geography, where
pupils, for example, have used the Internet to
find information about topics such as rivers and
the water cycle. In science, pupils have used
ICT to support their work about the human body.
There were also examples of pupils using ICT in
art and design, design and technology and RE.
ICT is well established in the pupils minds as a
good method of helping their learning.
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Why embedding?
To see the significant improvements in the
teaching of ICT matched by improvements in the
use of ICT across the primary curriculum.
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To improve standards of teaching and learning by
helping to embed the effective use of ICT across
the primary curriculum.
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Embedding yet another e-word!

• what does embedding look like in the classroom?
• what are the expectations on teachers and
  teaching?
• what will be the impact on learning and
  learners?
• what support is available to help schools build
  on and improve existing practice?
• what do teachers and schools need to do?

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Ashcott Primary School
Example
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Impact for children

• ICT offers flexible approaches to learning that
  can be applied across the primary curriculum
• ICT can engage and motivate
• ICT provides access to new resources and
  alternative ways to support thinking

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Impact for teachers

• ICT to enhance particular aspects of teaching
• ICT as a medium for interaction
• ICT challenging existing ideas about pedagogy
  and subjects

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Meare Village School
Example
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• Over refreshments.
• Reflect on the practice illustrated in the
  Meare Village School case study.
• What do you currently see as your schools key
  areas for development in terms of embedding ICT
  across the curriculum?

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Embedding yet another e-word!

• what does embedding look like in the classroom?
• what are the expectations on teachers and
  teaching?
• what will be the impact on learning and
  learners?
• what support is available to help schools build
  on and improve existing practice?
• what do teachers and schools need to do?

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Support
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• A range of resources are available to support
  schools
• National materials
• Somerset materials

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from the National Agencies

• The Leadership Team Toolkit
• The exemplar materials on the Teaching and
  Learning CDs
• Hands on Support
• Strategic Leadership of ICT programme for
  Headteachers

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The Leadership Team Toolkit
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Learning and Teaching using ICT
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Professional Development through Hands on Support

• A new programme to help teachers share good
  practice in the use of ICT in subject teaching
  from the DfES and the Primary National Strategy.
• A peer led programme of face-to-face support
  focussing on using ICT effectively to enhance
  teaching and learning using the equipment that
  teachers have access to in their own classrooms.

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Hands on Support

• Aiming for improvement in three areas
• an increase in the application of ICT in other
  subjects
• an increase in the effective use of ICT across
  the curriculum, specifically to meet the learning
  objectives of other subjects
• an increase in teachers confidence in the use of
  ICT as a tool for teaching.

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• Schools
• spread good practice in using ICT in teaching and
  learning
• develop new and existing collaborative links
  between teachers and other schools
• Teachers
• be confident and competent in their use of ICT
  across the curriculum
• Enhance subject teaching using ICT and
• Sharing expertise with other teachers
• Developing practice through collaboration with
  colleagues

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Support from the LEA

• The Mathematics Grid from Somerset
• The Literacy Grid from Somerset
• Progression in Phonics from Somerset

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Embedding yet another e-word!

• what does embedding look like in the classroom?
• what are the expectations on teachers and
  teaching?
• what will be the impact on learning and
  learners?
• what support is available to help schools build
  on and improve existing practice?
• what do teachers and schools need to do?

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1. Reflect on your current practice
2. Review and revise existing subject planning
3. Review the links between the development of
   personal capability in ICT (ICT the subject) and
   ICT as a tool for learning
4. Seek opportunities to embed ICT within the
   learning activities for children in all subjects
5. Explore the potential use by teachers to improve
   their teaching through the use of ICT
6. Review your existing resources and structures to
   improve efficiency and access to planning and
   resources

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Courses dates for Embedding ICT
Friday 5th November Embedding ICT across the
curriculum in Yrs 5 and 6
Friday 19th November Self-Evaluation of ICT for
schools
Tuesday 23rd November Embedding ICT across the
curriculum in Yrs 1 and 2
Friday 26th November Embedding ICT across the
curriculum in Yrs 3 and 4
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What happens next?

• examine the resources provided from this
  conference
• plan how to best introduce them in your school
  and make them available to all staff
• consider what training and support needs you
  will require and make a HoS plan
• develop an embedding action plan and prioritise
  your actions over the next two terms
• look out for further embedding ICT events
  during the year including Summer Term
  conferences

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Dates and venues of update conferences
Half day Events
7th June Brent House 9th June Long Sutton Golf
Club 10th June Wessex Hotel, Street 16th
June Mendip Lodge Hotel 17th June Wellsprings
Leisure Centre
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With particular thanks to
Paula Ashton Meare Village School
Angela Spence Knights Templar First School
Watchet
Clare Brooks Ashcott Primary School
Julie Crinson and Katie Brooks Milbourne Port
Primary School
Helen Morley Misterton First School
Chris Partridge Wincanton Primary School
Denise Flagg Ilchester Primary School
Maria Richards Milverton Primary School
Selina Shaw Norton Fitzwarren Primary school
Zoe Charlton Merriot First School
Julia Briggs St Bartholomews First School
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and the headteachers, staff and pupils of the
Pilot Schools
Knights Templar First School Watchet
Ashcott Primary School
Meare Village School
Milbourne Port Primary School
Ilchester Primary School
Wincanton Primary School
St Bartholomews First School
Kilmersdon Primary School
Abbas and Templecombe Primary School
St Benedicts Primary Stratton on the Fosse