This afternoon I had to do an observed ICT lesson, with a class other than my own. The idea is that I am in a class, to take the stress away from the teacher, such that he/she might see how things are handled when they go wrong, and how it might be overcome, without her/him feeling that she/he is failing, and that they might pick up on a wee something they themselves did not know. It also gives teachers the opportunity to observe their pupils in action, see who needs most support and builds their own confidence too.
While today was basically about copy and paste for P4/5, it showed them where they could copy and paste from and save to, for their project about animals. It also led them into various ways in which they could add to their paper free project, unless their teacher needed printed material to display. They will later , in class with their own teacher further explore the materials I have prepared and left in their folder. So we looked at a checklist of what they could do in their pairs. Minimized the window and at the end of the lesson examined the list again and changed what they felt confident with. The outcome will be that they, having collected material, will pull it together in a flipchart to use on the Promethean board, to show the class. We had a look at scran and how easy it was to get images, too. They did well!
I included in the folder, on their desktops, suggested tasks, a list of online resources, with prepared links, and books and CD’s for offline use. I’ll be back there, in three weeks to see what they have gathered. Hopefully there won’t be lots of stuff lying about on school machine desktops, ‘cos they’ll now be confident about where to save it to.
As to what their teacher felt about the lesson…..That’s another whole post.
Great to see you doing some much needed hand holding Marlyn – quite often this is the best way for confidence to rub off?
I look forward to the ‘another whole post’ with great interest!
Coming up! Thought you might appreciate the paper free project ?