CQS STANDARDS ICT DEVELOPMENT OF LEARNING 1 TEACHERS

Development of Learning

1. Teachers model ICT concepts and problem solving.

2. Objectives are clear and learners can explain what they are learning in ICT and why, and what they need to do next to improve.

3. Learners can explain how planned ICT activities have enabled them to take responsibility, to work as a team member, to communicate with others and to investigate problems.

4. Learners reflect on their learning and can explain how they have devised their ICT success criteria.

5. Learners independently access and use ICT resources whenever they feel it is appropriate and can explain why this enhances their learning.

Knowledge of subjects and themes

6. Teachers’ challenge and support learners through focused learning discussions.

7. Learners can explain and demonstrate how ICT has enhanced their learning across all subjects of the curriculum.

8. Learners can produce complex ICT solutions to problems, often extending the scope and brief of the original solution and demonstrating a development and refinement of the solution.

9. Curriculum planning provides open ended tasks provided that encourage pupil ownership and risk taking.

10. Learners have regular opportunities to evaluate and refine their use and understanding of ICT to research, communicate, handle data and problem solve.

11. Learners are proficient and safe users of the internet with a clear understanding of bias and audience.

12. A wide ranging library of digital multimedia resources is available that supports learners’ independent and personalised study.

Planning

13. There is sufficient differentiation to challenge the highest attainers in ICT groups.

14. Information from receiving year groups is used to inform differentiated planning for G&T learners to ensure appropriate progression in ICT.

15. Teachers’ planning identifies clear and increasingly unfamiliar contexts, where ICT is used for a real purpose and provides G&T pupils with opportunities to take responsibility for and be independent in their learning.

16. Planning reflects clear opportunities for pupils to use a variety of learning styles in ICT. Learners choose and use appropriate resources to develop their own initiated work, taking account of their success criteria.