| How can ICT support learning about abstract concepts? |
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ICT can allow pupils to develop their understanding of how words are constructed. For example, Year 6 pupils worked on an interactive whiteboard using PowerPoint to move morphemes to create words in one study.  In this case the ICT allowed the internal structures of words to be shown graphically and manipulated kinaesthetically.
Your evidence
You might find it useful to tape record, take diary notes, or ask a colleague to observe your teaching during selected sessions where you plan to work with an abstract feature of language like morphemes. It may help you to review the different types of help that you offer to pupils in these lessons, and how this enhances the children's learning. Record your findings using the table below:
(Adapted from Reflective Activity 7-2d on the Reflective Teaching website at: http://www.rtweb.info/ch07/ra7-2d.html) Moving forward Having identified how you support your pupils’ work with abstract concepts you might like to investigate the different approaches preferred by different pupils in order to ensure they work within, and then beyond their comfort zone. Could you work with a colleague to observe each other’s classes during a lesson? Would working together help you to consider how you might provide a variety of tasks and activities for your pupils?  Find out more The full project is InterActive Education: teaching and learning in the information age set out to answer a big question lead by Prof. Rosamund Sutherland, Prof. Susan Robertson, and Prof. Peter John. The project website is at: http://www.interactiveeducation.ac.uk/ You might like to read more about how children’s spelling can be improved through a better understanding of word structure at: http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/research/themes/literacy/spellingthrough/ You can find more further reading about children as learners at: http://www.rtweb.info/ch07/nfr7.html#children |
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