Part 2:
Teaching With ICT
a.
Structuring Lessons
In
the case study we are dealing with, the teacher has a fairly regular
pattern to her sessions. She tends to start with a teacher-led
introduction to the session outlining the area of coverage in
the session. In an hour-long session, she might restrict herself
to eliciting some of the vocabulary relevant to the topic using
flashcards and asking her pupils to do some pair work to help
memorizing the vocabulary. She could for instance use flashcards
from the Net and consolidate the learning with some puzzle games
from the puzzlemaker site:
www.puzzlemaker.com
Again,
you might not work in exactly this way, but you probably do have
a pattern that you favour as a teacher. Characterise this pattern
to yourself now, and consider how the use of ICT as a resource
might fit into it.
Over
something like a ten week period, spending two or three hours
a week on the topic, the teacher in the case study has wanted
to introduce the ICT based work at about the third week, spending
the first two on ensuring, using other means, that all pupils
were reasonably familiar with the topic. Moreover, she wants to
spend the first two hours in each week dealing with the topic
using other methods thus keeping the use of ICT to assess her
pupils. First let's recall the main learning objectives the teacher
has for her pupils in this area:
- Recognize
the vocabulary related to the topic.
- Understand
and use reflexive verbs.
- Provide
information about everyday activities to others.
- Elicit
similar information from others.
Case Study
Lesson Structure
Week
3 - Use the Internet to consolidate pupils understanding and
knowledge of the vocabulary.
- Class
introduction and targeted questions - 'warm up'.
- Exercise
on puzzlemaker www.puzzlemaker.com
on names of school subjects.
- Feedback
and answer to whole group.
Week
4 - Use of the Internet to consolidate pupil's knowledge of
the 'language of the classroom'.
- Class
introduction.
- Quiz
from the 'Bof' site with pupils working in pairs and exercise
running from the computer where possible or copied and printed
to worksheet for filling in.
- Feedback
and answer to whole group. Small groups are 'scored' and rewarded,
all pupils receive correct answers.
Week
5 - 'La Routine'.
-
Class introduction.
- School
life 'Bof'' site - questions on school life with suggested answers.
- Group
work Mr Downie's site. Worksheet 'La Routine'.
- Group
correction of exercise. Feedback.
Week
6 - Grammar: reflexive verbs.
-
Class introduction.
- French
grammar exercises - Dossier 6, Exercise 6 - elicit difficult
vocabulary first.
- Pupils
to submit exercise and teacher to explain variation between
their answer and suggested answers.
Week
7 - E-mailing a French school.
-
Class introduction.
- Students
to work either in pairs or on their own to prepare message on
school life and routine.
- Messages
briefly checked by teacher.
- Whole
class conclusion and summary.
 b.
Managing Learning in the Classroom
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