The Key Stage One Teacher's Survival Guide to ICT

Course description

This is a practical course which aims to equip teachers with the skills, knowledge and understanding required to teach the KS1 ICT curriculum. Delegates will learn how various software titles, chosen from Nottinghamshire’s recommended list  can be used to deliver the KS1 curriculum confidently and effectively. Whilst this course is aimed at non-specialist teachers of ICT, and shall be paced accordingly, a basic familiarity with PCs is desirable. The methodology of the course will consist of a mix of demonstration, hands-on practice and discussion.

Course objectives

• To provide teachers with a practical interpretation of the QCA Scheme of Work for ICT.
• To give teachers first hand experience of the relevant software to meet the requirements of the QCA Scheme of Work for ICT.
• To give teachers the opportunity to discuss the issues of classroom organisation and management in relation to the teaching of ICT skills and the application of ICT across the primary curriculum.

Course achievements

• Greater expertise and confidence in the delivery of the KS1 ICT curriculum.

Programme

9.00

• Introduction
• Working with text
  Units 1B and 2A

• Working with images
  Units 1A and 2B
• Reference sources
  Unit 2C

• Working with data
  Units 1D, 1E and 2E

• Working with instructions
  Units 1F and 2D
• Types of information
  Unit 1C

General

• Fire procedures
• Location of lavatories
• Equal opportunities

The QCA Schemes for Work

To download a Word file so that it can subsequently be edited:

1. click the right hand mouse button;
2. choose "Save Target As";
3. specify a place to store the file (often the Desktop is a good place).

Long-term planning

Suggested plan for a fixed Y1/Y2 class.

Standards

Exemplification of standards.

1B Can enter single words from a keyboard and use a word bank to assemble sentences

• Explore Clicker 4

2A Can use a word processor to produce sentences

• Sentences using the space bar

• Shift key for caps (not caps lock)

• Adding line breaks to rhyming poem

• Turn a string into a list

• Edit a piece of text

1A Understands that a computer can represent real or fantasy situations

• Use My World to dress a teddy and compare with dressing a real teddy
• Consider alternatives

• Explore an adventure game
  • "At the..." series
  • BBC website

www.bbc.co.uk/education/schools

• Create a picture of a real or fantasy situation
  Paint application.
  Black Cat Fresco or similar

2B Can use a computer paint package to create a picture  

• Black and white
  Woodblock illustration style

• Fill tool
  Pollock's 'Yellow Islands'

Pollock exhibition
His life and work and techniques from moma.org

• Rectangles of colour
  Piet Mondrian

Children's Mondrian PowerPoint

• Spray can
  Firework pictures

• Portraiture
  Consider use of symmetry tool

2C Can access reference material from a CD-ROM

1E Can use a graphing package to create a pictogram

• Using 'Counting Pictures 2'

2E know that there are different programs for collecting and presenting data

• Answer questions from a pictogram
  'Counting pictures 2'

• Yes and No databases
  'Decisions³'

• Answering questions from a database
  Using 'Pick a Picture'

1F Can produce a set of instructions for others to follow

• Tape recorder
• Sequencing recipe cards
• Human logo

2D Can program a Roamer or Pixie with a set of instructions

• Pixie

• Roamer

• Black Cat Logo

1C Knows that information exists in a variety of forms and be able to gather it from a variety of sources

• Use a talking book to show that icons convey meaning
• Consider alternatives

• Use a word processor to show how text styles can convey meaning