Overview
General Overview
You are a language teacher in a lower secondary school. Learning and Teaching Environment
You have 30 students in your class of mixed ability. The students are 14 years old. Your school recently set up a computer lab.
The computer lab contains the following equipment:
- One computer for the teacher
- One data projector
- One monochrome laser printer
- Two flatbed scanners
- Six digital cameras, three of which record still images and video
- 25 networked computers for the students.
The school has an intranet and is connected to the Internet. The intranet contains a central storage location for all of the information required by the teachers and other school staff.
Objectives
Learning Objectives
The students will be able to expand their understanding of how language is used persuasively.
Learning Activities
You want to teach a native language lesson on persuasive writing. The lesson focuses on how to use language persuasively by examining the way language is used in advertising, promotional material, slogans, headlines, titles, catch-phrases, quotes, and famous speeches.
You plan to use examples of persuasive writing that are closely related to the students"™ interests, such as advertisements aimed at the youth market. To help achieve the learning objective, you ask the students to bring to class printed examples of the persuasive writing they collected during the previous week"™s lesson. Professional Development Objectives
Your professional development objectives for the year are to:
use ICT effectively for teaching and learning; incorporate appropriate ICT activities into lesson plans so as to support students"™ acquisition of school subject matter knowledge; and
integrate the use of ICT into the curriculum by observing other teachers who incorporate Information and Communication Technology (ICT) into their lessons.