There has been an understandably frenzied response to the initial findings of the National Curriculum Review expert panel report that was released earlier this month, particularly from ICT teachers who are facing the prospect of their subject being marginalised, or others who think it will be removed altogether. But are the report findings all bad news for ICT teachers?Continue Reading
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24NovWhat would your curriculum look like?
In September I moved to the beautiful island of St Helena in the South Atlantic. I recently started work on revamping the ICT curriculum, and am currently looking at a blank piece of paper surrounded by piles of reading material. What would you do?Continue Reading
16NovDesigning a scheme of work
Aside from pontificating at the front of a classroom, hands down my favourite thing about teaching is developing schemes of work. I find there’s something extremely satisfying in developing a project that forms part of a larger whole, knowing its place within that whole, and knowing what else is needed in order to guarantee a good coverage of skills.Continue Reading
13AprAssessing Pupil Progress
Assessing Pupil Progress was introduced in 2010 to supplement the level descriptors for ICT, and I like it. I’d never, ever print out A3 copies of the assessment criteria and give them to the kids, but as a tool for planning out a curriculum, APP is great.Continue Reading
09AprSome Rights Reserved: Unit 1 model assignment update
Some Rights Reserved has been updated with more resources for unit 1 & video files for unit 23. The course is available for download as a Moodle course, or accessible in the resource bank.Continue Reading
14SepFree scheme of work for OCR Nationals unit 1
Updated: click here for details Good lord it’s been a long time since I made a post. The reality is that I’ve been working on this for about four months, in and around everything else that’s been going on. It’s now just about ready for release, so here it is. What is it? Some Rights Continue Reading
