The ICT Toolkit
This 'toolkit' includes a range of assessment and review instruments which are designed to help you evaluate practice in schools and classrooms. There are also a number of forms which may provide useful in assessing resources such as websites and CD-Roms.
These are all MS Word documents, so you will need either MS Word, MS Word Viewer (downloadable from Microsoft), MS Works or another program capable of reading Word documents. In each case the size of the document download is given.
- School Experience ICT Review [MS Word: 83K]
- This document is designed to allow students to keep a running record of their use of a range of ICT tools across a range of curriculum contexts, and to provide evidence of development of ICT skills and experience.
- School ICT Audit [MS Word: 58K]
- This is a short and reasonably informal audit of school ICT provision. It might be suitable as the basis of an interview with a school ICT coordinator, or as an activity to be carried out on a preliminary visit to a teaching experience school.
- What Makes a Good ICT Lesson? [MS Word: 62K]
- A checklist of 'good practice' in ICT, informed by the guidelines in the 2002 Handbook 'Qualifying to Teach' and by ideas about 'assessment for learning'.
- What Makes a Good Website? [MS Word: 58K]
- A checklist for assessing the educational value and validity of web resources.
- Education Software Audit [MS Word: 54K]
- A checklist of commonly-used educational software by type and Key Stage.
- Acronymania [MS Word: 59K]
- A not-too-serious self-assessment exercise to test your 'buzzword' awareness and hone your internet searching skills.