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Hands-on Support
Embedding ICT Across the Curriculum
In the classroom, interactive
whiteboards are powerful teaching tools.
They have the potential to:
- enhance demonstration and modelling;
- improve the quality of interactions and teacher assessment through
the promotion of effective questioning;
- redress the balance of making resources and planning for teaching;
- increase the pace and depth of learning.
The effective use of the interactive whiteboard provides teachers with
opportunities to engage with children at a higher level of learning.
Children can be encouraged to deepen their level of enquiry and generate
their own questions and hypotheses, which they can then easily test and
confirm.
This technology can undoubtedly increase learning opportunities for pupils,
but it is important to note that no technology provides assurance of effective
teaching.
The teacher must orchestrate the use of technologies in the classroom
to take full advantage of benefits that these can provide.
Whiteboard technology provides an environment rich enough to encompass
and extend a range of effective teaching styles used by classroom practitioners.
Interactive whiteboards can have a positive effect on teaching and learning
but, as with any ICT tool, the impact on teaching and learning depends
on how successfully they are integrated into classroom practice.
An interactive whiteboard can only raise standards if an effective teacher
uses it to extend and transform learning.
The Hands On Support ICT training offered through the DLC will be designed
to address the needs of educators in schools across the East Riding and
beyond to enable them to make full use of their interactive whiteboards
in a creative and engaging way in the classroom.
Basic ICT skills and pedagogy will be linked to promote effective use
of the interactive whiteboard to enhance learning and teaching.
Leading the East Riding programme of Hands On Support, the DLC will enable
educators to access specific support tutorials at a time convenient to
them and participate in online training sessions while in school, as well
as receive focused classroom, school and cluster support from Teaching
and Learning Consultants and a range of relevant practical and pedagogical
CPD courses in venues around the East Riding.
The DLC will address the developing training needs of school leaders,
co-ordinators, class teachers, teaching assistants and other educators
in the wider school community by providing a blended approach to schools’
continuing professional development for the effective embedding of ICT
across the curriculum.
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