Towards ‘Outstanding, Wigmore High School, Leominster
Reports here http://moodlexchange.com/?p=338#more-338
Wigmore is a small school of 450 students that has a specialism in ICT and Maths. The students begin life at Wigmore about average in ability but make rapid progress in KS3, by the end of year 11 all have got at least a grade C in ICT and two thirds have an A or A*
Towards ‘Outstanding’ OFSTED – Charles Read Grantham
Charles Read was classed as ‘Outstanding’ in its last ICT subject inspection. What is it that they do that could help other schools improve their game? Well it certainly isn’t an above average intake.
OFSTED ICT Subject inspections
What is it that OFSTED characterises as a ‘Good’ or ‘Outstanding’ in an ICT department, when it visits?. Looking at existing reports – these are from the last three years – it is possible to see in advance what sort of things they are likely to pounce on as unsatisfactory and what they are likely to praise.
An FGS Student:Result for a survey of ‘Out of School use of ICT’
A typical student from FGS owns a laptop1 and spends four hours a night on their computer during the week. They are skilled at multi-tasking and have MSN or Windows 2 live running with conversations with a number of their friends. They will also have Facebook running at the same time and they will be using the instant messenger aspect of it as well as adding comments on their friend’s sites.
Using a Journal in Moodle
The way we have got our ICT lessons organised in Moodle is pretty good. Students have an overview of what they need to do, tutorials where they are needed and layout documents that arrange their answers so that they are aligned to the syllabus and marking schemes. They also have examples of graded and authenticated work by other students so that they can see what a good grade is like. But it is by no means a perfect system especially when it comes to reflecting on and summarising their work
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Towards ‘Outstanding, Wigmore High School, LeominsterReports here http://moodlexchange.com/?p=338#more-338 Wigmore is a small school of 450 students that has a specialism in ICT and Maths....
