My Enhanced School Experience (ESE)

Enhanced School Experience: Classroom Observations of ICT Use
Specific Observations
School Name:  Juying Secondary School
Class: 2A1

Profile of the class: The class is a Normal Academic Secondary 2 class which is quite focused on learning and receptive to teaching. However more time needs to be given for them to follow the lesson effectively and as such going through content needs to be done slowly.

Subject: English Literature

1)What ICT tools are used in the lesson?

Powerpoint slides were used for the presentation of the lesson.

2)Describe how ICT is used for teaching and learning in the lesson.

The teacher used powerpoint slides to go through the points, namely the different kinds of short stories with the students. Each point was written in a concise manner so that the students could follow easily and leading pictures were also used eg. Picture of a princess for fairytales. The use of pictures in the powerpoint slides also helped the students to follow the lesson more effectively and clearly, enabling them to answer leading questions by the teacher. After that, pictures without any title were shown to them in order to let them guess what kind of short story was being portrayed.


General Observation:

3) How do teachers in the school feel about the use of ICT for teaching and learning?

The school believes strongly in ICT and students are required to have E-learning day once per semester. Teachers are also required to integrate the use of IT in curriculum, instruction and assessment in the belief that this would make lessons more effective. JSS supports ICT strongly and it has even brought in 12 I Pads for the students to use and enhance learning. Besides that, there is also a collaboration between two departments (Webquest), which requires the students to use internet resources to do a project. This is viewed in an important light and my CT spent quite a while explaining to the students what was required to be done as well. Believing that ICT would help the students improve, the teachers try to encourage them to search for and use internet resources independently.