Teaching Spaces
Comfortable and conducive learning spaces are critical to students' growth. The traditional classroom setup is to have rows of students all facing a chalkboard to be receptive to the 'all-knowing teacher' at the front of the class. However, that suits one type of learning and delivery and does not work for all styles of teaching/learning, especially those including ICT.
A classroom which provides access to online resources and multimedia is critical to ICT integration. The layout of such a classroom can be quite varied depending on needs and teaching approach. Perhaps the most suitable layout is one which is very flexible - furniture is easily movable: this includes student's desks and chairs, as well as the resource centers/desks (classroom computer desk - printer, scanner, computer and other peripherals station). This allows for teachers to best shape the classroom layout to what is necessary for a given lesson.
Curriculum Delivery
All teachers must routinely examine their teaching methods and success in order to ensure they are delivering the best content to students in the most effective way and achieving satisfactory results. For centuries this has been part of the arsenal for good self-analysis puts the teacher in a better tactical position. From a historical context there is clearly no reason to wait for ICT before examining one's teaching methods - these types of technology are very new in the history of the teaching profession - teachers have been and will continue to evaluate their teaching methods with or without ICT. To do otherwise will be disastrous.
Comfortable and conducive learning spaces are critical to students' growth. The traditional classroom setup is to have rows of students all facing a chalkboard to be receptive to the 'all-knowing teacher' at the front of the class. However, that suits one type of learning and delivery and does not work for all styles of teaching/learning, especially those including ICT.
A classroom which provides access to online resources and multimedia is critical to ICT integration. The layout of such a classroom can be quite varied depending on needs and teaching approach. Perhaps the most suitable layout is one which is very flexible - furniture is easily movable: this includes student's desks and chairs, as well as the resource centers/desks (classroom computer desk - printer, scanner, computer and other peripherals station). This allows for teachers to best shape the classroom layout to what is necessary for a given lesson.
Curriculum Delivery
All teachers must routinely examine their teaching methods and success in order to ensure they are delivering the best content to students in the most effective way and achieving satisfactory results. For centuries this has been part of the arsenal for good self-analysis puts the teacher in a better tactical position. From a historical context there is clearly no reason to wait for ICT before examining one's teaching methods - these types of technology are very new in the history of the teaching profession - teachers have been and will continue to evaluate their teaching methods with or without ICT. To do otherwise will be disastrous.
ICT can assist teachers in their personal assessment since certain tools can be used to gain statistics more readily than through manual means. For instance, if electronic testing is done, a teacher can quickly assess the topic questions that were poorly answered and those which were well assimilated, resulting clear statistics for re-teaching and knowing at what stage to move forward. The fact that many statistics can be maintained in digital form also allows for long-term self-analysis and student trends, this in turn, leads to redefining programs to better reach students.
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