Part 1:
Preparing to Use ICT in Teaching
a.
Aims and Objectives
The
teacher's aim for the sake of this case study is to develop the
learners' ability to relay a set of instructions in order to produce
recipes linked to their cookery sessions. As we meet the teacher
they have recently discussed with another teacher the learners'
skills in simple meal preparation session. It may be in your case
that the learners have previously carried out the task with you,
or that they are about to present to others and there is no need
to meet with other teachers.
The
teacher has a list of the meals that the learners have previously
prepared, a list of ingredients used for each meal and the appropriate
equipment used. At the end of the activity the teacher wants the
learners to provide opinions on the meals that are described,
a survey of the likes and dislikes of the group will be carried
out to conclude the activity.
Specifically,
the teacher wants the pupils to carry out a range of tasks suitable
to their ability level. The following are a list of aims that
could be met by a number of students over a wide ability range.
- Find
a suitable picture of the meal/item that they are about to describe,
using the resources available, Internet, CD-ROM, symbol/graphics
packages.
- Word-process
a list of the ingredients and equipment that is needed to produce
the item. Differentiation will be needed here, as some students
will be able to carry this out with limited support, others
will need a large word list from which they select the appropriate
items. Others will be able to produce the list from a pictorial
worksheet from which they have to identify the relevant items.
- Make
a list of instructions to be followed. Similar differentiation
methods will need to be taken into consideration again as in
the above task.
- Share
the learning experience with other learners in the group. For
those that are able, e-mail can be used to send a copy of the
recipe to others in the group, others will be able to talk about
their experience with print outs of the recipe that they have
produced.
- Carry
out a short survey to find the likes and dislikes of the learners.
- Produce
a visual display of the results on likes and dislikes.
Questions
for Consideration
- How
do you currently deal with this or any other similar text in
the classroom?
- Do
you use pictures, cartoon images or video to illustrate points,
and how do you manage use of these?
- What
are the main problems encountered by pupils when they work at
producing written text to describe an activity or event that
they have participated in?
Keep
a short record of your responses to these questions for discussion
with your mentor.
 b.
Deciding Whether to Use ICT
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