Primary ICT: Knowledge, Understanding and Practice

Primary ICT: Knowledge, Understanding and Practice
Author: John Potter
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2007-09-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1844454290

Written to familiarise trainees and newly qualified teachers with ICT and its uses in the primary classroom, this text discusses how ICT can support teaching and learning in the core subjects and further teachers' own professional efficiency and development. This third edition has been completely revised to reflect the new QTS Standards, Primary National Strategy and other recent initiatives. Further, popular existing features are joined by new reflective tasks and “Moving On” sections which help trainees develop the information in each chapter, as well as new material on Virtual Learning Environments, Interactive Whiteboards, and other digital media.

Primary Computing and ICT: Knowledge, Understanding and Practice

Primary Computing and ICT: Knowledge, Understanding and Practice
Author: Keith Turvey
Publisher: Learning Matters
Total Pages: 551
Release: 2014-06-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1473907128

This popular text for primary trainees in teaching primary ICT has been updated in line with the new computing curriculum. What do you need to know to teach ICT and computing in primary schools? How do you teach it? This book provides practical guidance on how to teach ICT and the computing curriculum in primary schools alongside the necessary subject knowledge. It explores teaching and learning with applications and technologies, addressing the role of the professional teacher with regards to important issues such as e-safety. This Sixth Edition is updated in line with the new curriculum for computing. It includes new material on how to integrate programming and computational thinking and explores how to harness new tools such as blogging and social media to enrich learning and teaching. Written in an accessible way, it will help trainees to develop confidence in their own approach to teaching. ICT and computing is both a subject and a powerful teaching and learning tool throughout the school curriculum and beyond, into many areas of children’s learning lives. This text highlights the importance of supporting children to become discerning and creative users of technology as opposed to passive consumers.

Primary Computing and Digital Technologies: Knowledge, Understanding and Practice

Primary Computing and Digital Technologies: Knowledge, Understanding and Practice
Author: Keith Turvey
Publisher: Learning Matters
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2016-09-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1473995094

What do you need to know to teach computing in primary schools? How do you teach it? This book offers practical guidance on how to teach the computing curriculum in primary schools, coupled with the subject knowledge needed to teach it. This Seventh Edition is a guide to teaching the computing content of the new Primary National Curriculum. It includes many more case studies and practical examples to help you see what good practice in teaching computing looks like. It also explores the use of ICT in the primary classroom for teaching all curriculum subjects and for supporting learning in every day teaching. New chapters have been added on physical computing and coding and the importance of web literacy, bringing the text up-to-date. Computing is both a subject and a powerful teaching and learning tool throughout the school curriculum and beyond into many areas of children’s learning lives. This book highlights the importance of supporting children to become discerning and creative users of digital technologies as opposed to passive consumers.

Meeting the Standards in Primary ICT

Meeting the Standards in Primary ICT
Author: Steve E. Higgins
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2004
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780415230476

This book provides ICT subject knowledge, the pedagogical knowledge needed to teach ICT in the primary school, support activities for use in schools, and self study and information on professional development for primary teachers.

A Guide to Teaching Practice

A Guide to Teaching Practice
Author: Louis Cohen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 475
Release: 2010-06-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136949658

A Guide to Teaching Practice is the major standard text for all students on initial teacher training courses in the UK. Authoritative yet accessible, it covers the important basic skills and issues that students need to consider during their practice, such as planning, classroom organization, behaviour management and assessment. The book's focus on the quality of teaching and learning and consideration of the latest regulations and guidelines ensures that it fits comfortably within TTA and OfSTED frameworks. In addition, comprehensively revised and fully updated, this fifth edition features brand new chapters on the foundation stage, legal issues, learning and teaching and using ICT in the classroom, as well as new material on numeracy, literacy, children's rights, progress files and gifted and talented children. This book is the most respected and widely used textbook for initial teacher training courses and will be an essential resource for any student teacher.

Primary ICT: Knowledge, Understanding and Practice

Primary ICT: Knowledge, Understanding and Practice
Author: Jonathan Allen
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2012-08-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0857259431

The Fifth Edition of this popular core text provides essential knowledge and best practice in primary ICT. It helps the reader develop their knowledge, understanding and practice of primary ICT and covers all aspects of how ICT can support learning and teaching in the core areas of the primary curriculum. This Fifth Edition is linked to the 2012 Teachers' Standards. ICT remains a central part of primary education and this text covers all aspects of ICT in primary schools. Includes interactive tasks, a self assessment section to allow trainees to better understand their level of knowledge and M level extension boxes to provide further challenge in all chapters. A revised chapter on safety now includes essential guidance on e-safety. About the Achieving QTS series All the books in this successful series support trainees through their initial teacher training and guide them in the acquisition of their subject knowledge, understanding and classroom practice. All new titles within the series link to the 2012 Teachers' Standards and take into account recent changes in Initial Teacher Training.

Meeting the Standards in Primary ICT

Meeting the Standards in Primary ICT
Author: Steve Higgins
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2004-12-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134581467

"This book is not just limited to the use of ICT in the classroom but looks at the wider role of ICT in supporting effective professional development. It will be an invaluable resource that will benefit all trainee teachers on primary training courses. It will also be a reference for lecturers and mentors supporting trainees on these courses as well as NQTs in the early stages of their teaching career."--Jacket.

Primary ICT

Primary ICT
Author: Jonathan Allen
Publisher: Learning Matters Limited
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2011-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9780857253248

New and revised edition of this essential text for primary trainees enabling them to understand how ICT can support teaching and learning across the curriculum.

Computing and ICT in the Primary School

Computing and ICT in the Primary School
Author: Gary Beauchamp
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2016-09-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317239849

Now fully updated to reflect recent changes in the curriculum, Computing and ICT in the Primary School encourages teachers, and pupils, to realise the potential of a full range of ICT and computing resources. Tackling computing head on, this book enables trainee and experienced teachers to better understand what computing is and how to use ICT effectively in teaching and learning. It is not a ‘how to’ guide or a collection of lesson plans, but instead balances research-based theory with everyday experiences, challenging readers to understand teaching methods and how they translate into a range of suitable teaching and learning strategies using ICT. This book offers primary teachers the knowledge, skills and confidence to plan, teach and assess creatively to enhance learning across the whole curriculum. This second edition includes updates of all chapters and completely new chapters on: • mobile technologies • social media, and • modern foreign languages. Gary Beauchamp places theory and practice hand in hand, providing a uniquely relatable resource based on his own teaching practice, classroom experience and research. This text is crucial reading for both serving teachers and those in training on undergraduate and PGCE courses, Education Studies courses and MA (Ed) programmes.

Understanding Teaching and Learning in Primary Education

Understanding Teaching and Learning in Primary Education
Author: Mike Carroll
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 595
Release: 2014-03-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1473904129

This textbook supports your initial teacher education by providing guidance and insight into the professional knowledge and understanding, skills and abilities, and values and commitments necessary in order to succeed in the primary classroom. Coverage includes: View from practice boxes in every chapter exploring real-life examples of intelligent and engaging teaching in schools Thinking points and reflective questions challenging you to engage critically with what you have read and apply it to your own teaching Links to further reading connecting you to specialised literature on every chapter topic Clear discussion of education policy differences across the UK. Mike Carroll is the PGDE (Primary and Secondary) Programme Leader and Director of the MEd Professional Learning and Enquiry programme in the School of Education, University of Glasgow. Margaret McCulloch is a University Teacher within the School of Education, University of Glasgow.