Updated QCA Scheme of Work for ICT - Teachers Guide

The QCA updated their Scheme of Work for ICT in 2003.  The new materials in this update have been designed to offer schools alternative approaches to applying and developing ICT across a range of subjects. Teachers familiar with the structure of the ICT units may have used the ‘integrated task’ as a summative activity, where children apply the key ideas and techniques they have been taught in a specific context. The new integrated tasks included in the update offer alternative contexts, which allow the key ideas and techniques taught in ICT to be applied to tasks in other subjects. The integrated tasks are linked, where appropriate, to QCA schemes of work for other subjects.  Although the intention of the update is to show how ICT might be applied and developed in a subject context, the focus of the unit remains clearly on the ICT learning objectives. It is essential that children learn the key ideas and techniques of the ‘ICT lesson’ before they apply these in another context. All the possible teaching activities offered in these new integrated tasks are based on the assumption that children have been taught the ICT key ideas and techniques before they carry out the task.

The new integrated tasks are not exhaustive, and are not intended to prescribe how ICT is applied and developed in a subject context. They are offered as illustrative examples that teachers may want to adapt to their own circumstances and to suit the needs of their own children.

Click on this link to download the Updated Teachers Guide for the QCA Scheme of Work for ICT