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Our Y7 students created leaflets in ICT about the right to education and learning to learn using our 7.3 online unit.
Before finishing the project they gave each other feedback in order to refine their work using a differentiated worksheet.
We sorted the class into low, middle and high achievers […]

In the news
The role of assessment in the National Curriculum has been the hot topic in the educational press recently. 
In December, IPPR produced a report stating that regular teacher assessments of pupils’ work should replace the testing of pupils aged 11 and 14 (bbc article).
This month the Gilbert Review said that England’s school tests and […]

KS3 ICT test should be ‘optional’
The Government set the ambitious goal of producing an online KS3 ICT test that marked itself.  However, the National Assessment Agency has now recommended that the exam should not become statutory (see BBC news article).  This announcement coincides with two key reports stating that the current curriculum is restricted by […]

This week I am giving training to ICT trainees and teachers from Norfolk and Suffolk.  We are going to try to answer the following questions:

What teaching routines do you use?
How do you deliver the KS3 ICT units?
How have you adapted the sample units to make them better to teach?
How do you assess KS3 ICT?
What would you do […]

The better you know your students, the more progress you make.  That is why keeping an up to date and detailed markbook is so important. The resources below show how I have made a markbook in Excel and the many ways in which I can use it in my teaching. The following questions are raised:
Why do you […]