[senit] ICT suite lessons

I don't teach in school so may be way off track here

hi, and thanks for your responses. The conclusion
seems to be that 30 mins is too short for a 2 or 3
part lesson so that in that amount of time I can
either stay at the IWB and differntiate for the group
or have the class working individually at PCs. Or
maybe alternate these approaches. An alternative is
small group work but that would require LSAs to teach
rather than monitoring a small group - and they would
need training up on that. Oout of interest how much
time per week would students spend in the ICT suite at
SLD schools or provision? 
david
--- Alison Barton <abarton3 at googlemail.com> wrote:

> I don't teach in school so may be way off track here
> (my classes are 16-19's
> mostly and the most I have in one room at a time is
> 8 but there is no whole
> group work it is all done 1:1 either with me (tutor)
> or a support worker. I
> use the IWB for 1:1 work only as I have found that
> my learners (LDD inc
> Autism) don't 'do' group work well. Plus they are
> usually all doing
> different tasks anyway so there is no group as such,
> rather 8 individuals
> working in the same room.
> 
> My idea is that you ditch the IWB whole group intro
> for the 30 min class and
> have whatever the activity you are doing already
> loaded on the desktops for
> each learner or brief them in the classroom prior to
> the ICT session if poss
> - that would mean they have more time on the task
> and maybe you would have
> time for the plenary on the IWB.
> 
> Hope you don't mind me chipping in on this, I am
> conscious that have no
> experience with ICT in school or younger learners.
> 
> Alison.
> 
> On 23/01/07, david fettes <davidfettes3 at yahoo.co.uk>
> wrote:
> >
> > hi , anyone teach ICT to large classes (SLD) in
> ICT
> > suite?
> > in one lesson I have 45 mins and this is just
> enough
> > for a short session round the IWB first , but in
> > another lesson with another class I have 30 mins
> and
> > there doesn't seem enough time for the IWB intro
> let
> > alone a plenary. 10 students in class. Anyone got
> any
> > solutions/ideas?
> > thanks
> > David
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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