January 19, 2016
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Comments Off on Stranger Danger
From the ever increasing number of headlines appearing these days surrounding internet safety I knew that it was an important matter to educate myself on as a teacher. In our ICT lecture we were given the opportunity to explore a range of resources that we could engage with whilst on professional placement. I used the […] Continue reading
January 19, 2016
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Comments Off on Staying Safe Online
We recently had an input about the ICT time children get in primary school and how we can develop their ICT skills. The importance of internet safety was highlighted in this input and how we should always make sure the children have had an internet safety input before they are “let loose”. With that in […] Continue reading
January 19, 2016
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Comments Off on The importance of the past looking at the future.
My memory of social studies at school is that it was a delivered with mixed quality. I remember one particular lesson on how Roman people lived. The teacher must have spent hours if not days sourcing various foods. Root ginger, dates, olives, grapes, baked apples, rye bread, a huge variety of spices and a vast […] Continue reading
January 19, 2016
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Comments Off on Exciting Animations!
In our first technology workshop we looked at how to make different types of animation and good ways of using and teaching these techniques in the classroom. The first activity was making a flip book animation with a folded over piece of paper. The instruction was to start by drawing something on the inside of […] Continue reading
January 19, 2016
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Comments Off on Getting in touch with my creative side
One of the modules I have to complete this semester is called “Teaching Across the Curriculum.” In this, we look at the different aspects of the curriculum in Scotland and talk about what we could teach within it and how we could teach it. As part of the module we were given a workshop on […] Continue reading
January 19, 2016
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Comments Off on My Maths Problems Solved.
Maths is something I have always been praised for being good at, both from my parents and from teachers. My experience of maths was for the most part a positive one in that I was always in the top group and when I moved to high school I competed for the top three seats in […] Continue reading
January 19, 2016
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Comments Off on Getting rather animated!
During a brilliant ICT input with Sharon Tonner last week, we were shown how to use various pieces of software to teach children about Animation! My favourite part of the session was to create a ‘Wallace and Gromit’ style, stop motion animation. We were introduced to a piece of software called ZU3D, which (when hooked up to […] Continue reading
January 19, 2016
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Comments Off on Talking and Listening
Talking and Listening in the classroom provides a great opportunity for class discussion. However, this can also cause problems – as in who’s turn it is to speak, and who should be listening. There are a number of ways to combat this. The simplest being, a set of rules. In my classroom, I would set […] Continue reading
January 18, 2016
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Comments Off on Its a science thing…
For our first science input we had been asked to prepare a short science demonstration to share among our peers. Personally, I had not studied science since I had been in 2nd year, so the thought of this task made me slightly anxious. After researching ideas for topics for science projects, that could be done […] Continue reading
January 18, 2016
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Comments Off on 3 actions for Social Studies
To develop my knowledge and skills in social studies I will have at least 3 actions which I can work on this semester and throughout my time in this course. I will ensure I get into the habit of being up to date with current news and weather disasters to make sure I am prepared […] Continue reading
January 18, 2016
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Comments Off on SMART Science
Developing confidence and competence in science will take time, however by starting now will help ensure I’m excited and enthusiastic when the time comes for me to teach it within the classroom. Here is my action plan for this semester; Specific – We (as a class) can carry out a topic on The Solar System […] Continue reading
January 18, 2016
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Comments Off on Internet Safety
I have created a short Animoto clip that I could show to a class to emphasize how important internet safety is. My clip acknowledges that the internet is becoming a tool that most people use and it expresses that we should all take precautions to ensure our safety. Continue reading
January 18, 2016
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Comments Off on Scary ICT
As a child I loved ICT! Going on the computers was always my favourite thing to be asked to do! Now coming to teach ICT in the classroom I get butterflies in my stomach. After my workshop today I was brought to many of the dangers involved with ICT if you do not teach children […] Continue reading
January 18, 2016
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Comments Off on Second ICT Workshop
Today we had our second ICT workshop where we learnt about searching safely on the internet and ensuring that the websites that our pupils will be using are safe and, more importantly, accurate. Sharon put links in the PowerPoint to websites that are filled with ‘made up’ facts, but the websites are surprisingly believable. One of which […] Continue reading
January 18, 2016
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Comments Off on Dance- Lesson plan.
Following our one and only dance input of MA1 I have decided to try planning my own dance lesson. The lesson I have planned is for a P5 class and the stimulus for the lesson is the seasons. The different seasons conjure up different emotions, different associations etc. and I thought it would be interesting […] Continue reading
January 17, 2016
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Comments Off on The ‘M’ Word
Yes, the M word… Maths. Maths is a subject which I have never had huge confidence in so knowing that on Wednesday I had to sit in a workshop all about my most dreaded subject was something that I was really not looking forward to. I was actually very nervous. I had this image in […] Continue reading
January 17, 2016
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Comments Off on ICT Workshop- Pivot
I started back at university on Monday for my second semester of my Primary Education degree. The first lesson we had was in the ICT suite with Sharon Tonner where we learnt how to make animations and her passion and enthusiasm made it such an enjoyable lesson. The lesson started with us using a programme […] Continue reading
January 17, 2016
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Comments Off on Problematic Problems
As with many people, my personal feelings towards maths are mostly negative. I continually struggle to get past the mental block where I shut down, claiming “I can’t do it!” Throughout school my experiences of maths were not overly negative, but neither were they particularly positive. I remember having to memorise times tables (something that […] Continue reading
January 17, 2016
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Comments Off on How The Cat Stole The Fish.
Creating a short clip using animation about how a cat stole a fish is certainly not what I expected to be doing in my first ICT input! However, it did introduce me to teaching ICT in a enjoyable, innovative and creative way. It did take it us a whole hour just to make a 20 second clip […] Continue reading
January 16, 2016
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Comments Off on Planet Earth.
From my experience with primary school, I only have a few vague memories of science lessons which we were given from external educators. There was much more emphasise on subjects like maths and literacy which we would spend most of our time on daily. This makes it all the more surprising that I had a […] Continue reading
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