"How to teach outstanding ICT" e-book

After receiving many requests from teachers over the last few months asking me for advice on how they can improve ICT teaching and learning in their schools to make it outstanding, I have written this short e-book that hopefully: describes, explains and justifies everything that I do in one document, to hopefully inspire and help others:

Click here to download as a PDF file!

Please let me know if you have found anything useful in it or have suggestions for additional chapters that I could include in future updates!

P.S. You might also find this guide from Ofsted useful, which details what their definition of 'outstanding' ICT is.

Comments

[Mrsgmail1]

Hi Simon
Well done for collating all your hard work into one document. I'm sure many teachers will really appreciate it! I particularly liked your ideas on how to facilitate ICT learning outside the classroom and I intend to utilise our digital leaders in year 6 to find an app/website of the week to share on our learning platform.
It was interesting that you make no reference to levels in ICT, just progressive skills. I really like this approach as it has troubled me for sometime now how irrelevant the levelling process seems to be in primary ICT e.g. Children can be working on aspects of level 4 in year 2 but their high order thinking on a task may not be as developed. I think a progressive skills based approach is much more accurate.
For future udates maybe you coud explore further the topic of assessment of ICT.
Thanks again for sharing Simon.

[Stuart]

Thanks for sharing this. I particularly like the learning intention examples - these are a really clear way and interesting way to present them to students.

[Ben winter]

Really thought provoking. Thanks for all of your hard work.

[Heather Govier]

Great book Simon - and I love the good old-fashioned collectivism in sharing it for free:-)

[Janice Stanley]

Hello Simon,
What a generous person you are! I have used many of your ideas in my ICT lessons to good effect - keeping the lessons fresh, relevant and progressive. I have also broadened my skill set following your lead. Thank you.