An integral part of our ICT program for the Enhanced Learning Provision is giving the pupils skills that transcend perceived subject barriers. It is all teachers’ jobs to promote literacy and numeracy skills, for example. (That applies in the mainstream of course too!)
Our ICT program provides us with a lot of scope to reinforce and promote the skills being imparted in other areas of the Enhanced Learning Provision timetable.
When our English specialist passed comment that some pupils were struggling with capitalisation of the first letter of proper names (including their own) and at the starts of sentences, this was the only prompt staff on the ICT program needed to include a range of lessons looking at the role of the SHIFT function on the computer keyboard.
Under the guise of keyboard skills, we spent hours of fun writing very simple emails and using appropriate on-line resources, practising using the SHIFT key for proper names and for the start of a sentence.
This was all a build up to the activity we needed these skills for - making our own leaflet about The River Forth! The focus as far as the pupils were concerned was always the need for the leaflet to look good. The focus for the staff was always the need for the pupils to practise some literacy basics…
Please see attached files for more details of how we approached these lessons (this piece of work ran over a number of lessons for obvious reasons). You will find a Powerpoint introduction and a worksheet that set the scene…
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