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
memorising 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:
- Recognise
the vocabulary related to the topic.
- Understand
and use verbs with personal pronouns.
- 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 vocabulary.
- Class
introduction and targeted questions - "warm up".
- Exercise
on puzzlemaker www.puzzlemaker.com
on names of leisure activities.
- Feedback
and answer to whole group.
Week
4 - Use of the Internet to consolidate pupil's knowledge of
"leisure activities" vocabulary and grammatical structures.
- Class
introduction.
- Challenge
Quiz from the BBC languages site with pupils working in pairs.
- Feedback
and answer to whole group. Small group are "scored" and rewarded,
all pupils receive correct answers.
Week
5 - Leisure Activities.
- Class
introduction.
- Pair
Work BBC
GCSE Bitesize web site: Personal and Social Life - Under
Reading Activities/finding a pen friend - reading text pairs
complete multiple choice answers.
- Group
work BBC
Spanish Online site - Audio clip with gap fill and vocabulary
building exercise.
- Group
correction of exercises. Feedback.
Week
6 - Grammar: First person irregular verbs.
- Class
introduction.
- Spanish
grammar - use textbook - Elicit difficult vocabulary first.
- Group
work www.quia.com/custom/948main.html
students practise by playing a series of games.
- Feedback
- complete exercises in textbook.
Week
7 - Sending a postcard.
- Class
introduction.
- Students
to work either in pairs or on their own to prepare a message
on buying food.
- Messages
briefly checked by teacher.
- Students
write and send digital postcard at www.espanol.cjb.net
- Whole
class conclusion and summary.
 b.
Managing Learning in the Classroom
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