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 work in Aspects of Local History at Key Stage 3, integrating with it a thematic interest in The World of Work. In this case the learners are KS3 pupils in a mixed gender urban comprehensive. As we meet the teacher, he has previously taught the main area of work and likes it, though he has not tried the integration of Local History with World of Work.

Specifically, over the total eight-week programme, the teacher wants the pupils at this phase of their learning to:

• Describe the main forms of industrial activity in the Swansea Bay area
• Distinguish between
  • the urban and rural
  • the coastal and the valley
  • the industrial and the commercial in the Swansea Bay area
• Place their investigation and comment in the period between the two World Wars
• Relate their findings to their own and their communities' situations in terms of work
• Explain some of the similarities and differences between the period under consideration and the current period

Questions for Consideration

• How do you currently deal with this area of work in the classroom?
• Do you use pictures, other images or print/video materials to illustrate points, and how do you manage use of these?
• What are the main problems encountered by pupils when they work historical comparisons of the sort being proposed here?

Keep a short record of your responses to these questions for discussion with your mentor.

b. Deciding Whether to Use ICT