Primary ICT for Teaching Assistants

With the focus on enhancing the ICT competence of the pupils whom you support, this book: shows how you can support students within the ICT programme of study - even if you?re not a confident ICT user yourself tackles tricky issues such as assessment and progression suggests activities for developing skills, familiarity and understanding provides ideas and advice for effective use of ICT in other subjects shows how ICT can be a really effective tool for inclusion. This can be used as a companion to ?ICT for Teaching Assistants?

John Galloway is responsible for the training of teaching assistants in the use of ICT in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
What do we mean by 'ICT'?	p. 1
What pupils do in ICT lessons	p. 2
What do we teach in ICT?	p. 4
Helping children find things out	p. 6
Starting with sounds and images	p. 7
Describing and depicting	p. 9
Using electronic sources	p. 10
Recording data electronically	p. 14
Handling data electronically	p. 15
Is the information any good?	p. 19
Now I've found it, what do I do with it?	p. 20
Helping pupils develop ideas and make things happen	p. 21
Developing ideas	p. 21
Making things happen	p. 26
Helping children exchange and share information	p. 33
How we might exchange and share information	p. 33
Helping children review, modify and evaluate work as it progresses	p. 38
What is a 'breadth of study?'	p. 40
Giving breadth when 'Finding things out'	p. 40
Giving breadth when 'Developing ideas'	p. 42
Giving breadth when 'Making things happen'	p. 43
Giving breadth when 'Exchanging and sharing information'	p. 44
Giving breadth when 'Reviewing, modifying and evaluating work as it progresses'	p. 46
Assessing ICT: how do we know what pupils have learnt?	p. 48
Summative assessment	p. 48
Formative assessment	p. 50
Summing up	p. 54
ICT and literacy	p. 55
Using a word-processor	p. 55
Aids to writing	p. 60
Aids to reading	p. 61
Great for group work	p. 62
ICT in mathematics	p. 64
Programming and mathematics	p. 64
Enhancing teaching and learning	p. 64
Whole-class mathematics and ICT	p. 65
ICT across the curriculum	p. 68
The skills to use the tools	p. 68
ICT in different subjects	p. 69
ICT and inclusion	p. 73
How we learn and how ICT helps	p. 73
ICT and special educational needs	p. 74
Adding to what you've got	p. 76
Supporting pupils for whom English is an additional language	p. 79
The National Curriculum Attainment Targets	p. 80
Resources and software	p. 82
Glossary	p. 85
Index	p. 91
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