Meeting the Standards in Using ICT for Secondary Teaching: A Guide to the ITTNC

by Steve Kennewell

This book explains how Information and Communications technology (ICT) has the potential to make a real improvement to teaching and learning across the curriculum in secondary schools. It illustrates a wide variety of ways in which ICT can be used to enhance learning, offering a fresh burst of inspiration for the busy secondary school teacher.
The author takes a structured approach, ensuring that the reader is guided progressively through all the material in order to achieve the required standards for achieving Qualified Teacher Status, and also to continue their development in ICT to an advanced level. This book
* analyzes all the common ICT tools and explains how teachers of each subject in the National Curriculum can exploit these tools for effective learning
* explores how people can learn with ICT, how their skills develop, and how these skills can aid their learning
* provides a framework for planning, analysing and evaluating teaching with ICT
* offers a range of innovative tasks, resources and methods of assessment.

240 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2004

About the author

Steve Kennewell taught mathematics and computing in comprehensive schools prior to work as an advisory teacher for educational computing. He joined the University of Wales-Swansea Education Department in 1990, and now runs a Secondary PGCE course for IT specialists as well as leading MA and professional development modules in Effective Teaching and in ICT and Learning. John Parkinson taught chemistry and science in secondary schools for 7 years before joining the Education Department at University of Wales-Swansea in 1981. Currently he is involved in the initial training of science teachers and leads the masters level work on school improvement. Howard Tanner taught in secondary schools for 16 years before joining the University of Wales-Swansea in 1988. Since then he has taught courses in ICT, Mathematics Education, Curriculum, Assessment, Psychology and Research Methods.