ITT Students' World Wide Web Workshop · Harton School

• Click on the link GCSE Subjects, which leads to the NEAB website. We are going to find out what the English email address is.
• Click on English. You will find the English email address at the top of the web page.
• Find out a syllabus number for the GCSE English Syllabus. You may have to scroll down the page.

• The BBC website is supposed to be the most visited information-based website in Europe. BBC Education has a section called GCSE Bitesize Revision, which is intended for learners working on their own.
• Return to the English Page. Click on the Bitesize Revision link. Then click on the English link. Look at the topics. Are they relevant? Try one and assess the quality of subsequent pages for age-appropriateness and curriculum focus.

• Return to the English Page. Assess the relevance of the teaching ideas, lesson plans, worksheets and resources on offer for English teachers on the two links Teaching Ideas for Primary Teachers and Educate the Children.

• Return to the English Page. The English Resources site offers free teaching and revision resources. It also contains administrative advice for Heads of English. Assess the site for its appropriateness to secondary school English teaching.

• Return to the English Page. Teachit's English Teaching Resources offers an "online library of English teaching resources for photocopiable worksheets, lesson plans and schemes of work - everything you need for planning tomorrow's first lesson or (for the very efficient) next term's scheme of work ..these are downloadable and photocopiable - all you have to do is find a suitable topic and a photocopier!" Once again, how appropriate is this website to your own English teaching?

• Return to the English Page. Reading in the Content Areas: Secondary is an American site containing a number of English reading-related links. Has this site a role in the UK English curriculum?

• Return to the English Page. The National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE) "is the UK subject teacher association for all aspects of English from pre-school to university. NATE supports effective teaching and learning, keeps teachers informed about current developments and provides them with a voice at a national level." How might its website inform your English teaching?

• Return to the English Page. The portal English and Special Educational Needs links to a number of sites offering resources and strategies for learners with difficulties and impairments. How useful might the links be in your English teaching?

• Return to the English Page and click on the Google link. Use English as your keyword. How many hits were there? Print out the first page of hits.
• Now try out Yahoo, typing English into the box. How does Yahoo present search results?
• What are the advantages and the disadvantages of each of these search engines?

• Return to the English Page. If you had the Internet up and running, would you be able to locate and use a web resource in your teaching? Could you set your students a task which they might complete by referring to a web page or website?
• The Teacher Training Agency has published Initial Teacher Training (ITT) National Curriculum for the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in subject teaching: Exemplification materials. Access their ICT exemplification materials page and find out how to obtain the materials for English.

© D. R. Wilson · 2002