Learning outcomes will be assessed by a portfolio of evidence of attainment against criteria derived from DfES requirements. Assesses learning outcomes a, b, c, d. The portfolio will be in two parts:
Part A: Demonstrating effective use of ICT in teaching and learning
ATs will present at least three examples of their use of ICT in teaching.
1. Effective planning for incorporating ICT in lessons and programmes of work (e.g. making good decisions about when and when not to use a range of ICT in teaching and learning).
2. Evaluating the potential for ICT to enhance learning and teaching (e.g. exploiting the capacities of ICT in terms of speed, capacity and the ease of editing to avoid low level tasks and help pupils to spend more time on higher level thinking)
3. Effective classroom management when using ICT in lessons
4. Developing pupils' ICT skills

Part B: Demonstrating Personal ICT skills
ATs will present evidence grouped according to these sections of the ITT National Curriculum.
1. Knowledge and understanding of the National Curriculum and Key Skills requirements for ICT
2. Classroom management using ICT
3. Using ICT to prepare resources
4. Making good use of subject and generic sources of advice and data for teaching
5. Evaluate the usefulness of major items of software specifically relevant to specialist subject(s)
6. Personal skills in using databases
7. Personal skills in using spreadsheets
8. Web page design

Lead School based teaching sessions
Tutorials
Placement School/College meetings with Mentor
West Midlands Consortium Library & Staffordshire University library
Materials and Links on West Midlands Consortium VLE & Staffordshire University PGCE Blackboard
www.staffs.ac.uk/uniservices/infoservices/library
www.staffs.ac.uk/a2z4u/

ICT workshops developing personal ICT skills through practical applications and lesson planning for business education; presentations on issues in ICT in business education; presentations by ATs; accessing information via the Internet; reviewing ICT applications.

A further 132 hours of independent learning will require you to apply the understanding you gain through your reading and the university sessions to your lesson planning, teaching and assessment strategies and to your work on the PGCE in general. You will have opportunities to discuss specific issues you might have with your tutor.

Managing files and processing information using ICT; ICT in preparing resources and keeping records; Information handling with databases; modelling; Using ICT for communication; CD ROMs; Using the Internet; Measures of students' ICT capability - National Curriculum, GNVQ, key skills; available courseware for business education; reference sources and professional expertise for ICT in business education; health, legal and ethical issues in ICT; ICT and learning in business education.

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RUSSELL, T. Teaching and Using ICT in Secondary Schools (2001) Russell, T. London, David Fulton
WATSON, D. (2001) Pedagogy before Technology: Re-thinking the Relationship between ICT and Teaching, Education and Information Technologies 6: 4 pp251 - 266
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