The International Schools Review Forum

How is tech taught in your elementary school:

* By dedicated tech coaches/teachers?
* By classroom teachers?
* A combination?

Is it completely integrated, or are meaningful skills taught separately from curriculum?

How much time is given per week or cycle to dedicated technology teaching?

Would love to hear some ideas of how things are being done in your school.

Hi,

In our school, we teach it. It was the same in my previous school. In both schools, I'd say the teaching of tech wasn't great, partly due to lack of materials, partly due to lack of inspiring teaching plans/ideas, and partly due to a lack of skill on the part of the teacher. In my current school, using our current schemes of work, I have done quite a few tech projects with my students (age 10 - 11 years), however these have all involved creating "models" of things, for example, a skate park, with no opportunities make a "real" thing.

Hard to give an accurate time amount per week, as we do topic teaching, so it might be that two weeks we teach 5 or 6 hours of tech a week, then none for the rest of that half term.

Does that help?

My school has a technology teacher with a computer lab that teaches computer skills and collaborates with classroom teachers on specific projects. We also have a "technology specialist" for the school that helps teachers integrate technology into the classroom and supports teachers in understanding how to use technology in general.