Maternity cover PYP Computer/ ICT Teacher (From April 2022 till June 2022)

The ICT Teacher should:

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Facilitate the use of a
wide range of digital tools, media and learning environments for teaching,
learning and assessing.

·      
Create opportunities to
allow students to make connections and reach a deeper understanding of its
relevance and applicability to their everyday lives.

·      
Develop and apply
strategies for critical and creative thinking, engage in inquiry, make
connections, and apply new understandings and skills in different contexts.

·      
Use inquiry as a teaching
method

·      
Facilitate the use ICT in
the relevant, authentic context of the units of inquiry, as well as through
teaching and learning experiences in other areas of the curriculum.

·      
Collaborate among teachers
in the school including homeroom/classroom, single-subject and support teachers
(for example, teacher-librarian, ICT teacher, learning and/or special needs
teacher). This collaboration includes the development and overall review of the
school’s programme of inquiry, as well as planning, teaching and reflecting on
individual units of inquiry.

·      
Help connect learners
within both the local and global community in order to empower learning.
Learners’ awareness, use and appreciation of different ICT knowledge, skills
and platforms should be developed.

·      
Develop the skills of
investigating, creating, communicating, collaborating, organizing and becoming
responsible digital citizens.

·      
Help students become
responsible digital citizens who make informed and ethical choices, while
acting with integrity and honesty

Guiding principles for the
role of the ICT Teacher:

·       Provide opportunities for authentic embedding of ICT across
the curriculum

·       View teachers and students as collaborators in the learning
process

·       Provide opportunities for student choice to encourage students
to take responsibility for their learning

·       View learning as part of a broader community of learners

·       Adapt multiple systems or approaches (for example, platform
or application) according to the situation and needs of learners

·       Use collaborative planning and reflection

·       View professional learning as a continual process

·       Promote for learning beyond the classroom through global
connections

·       Manage resources to meet educational goals

·      
Publish content for an
authentic audience, for example, using social media tools to communicate a
message to a wider group of people.

The
ICT teacher should help students to use ICT as a tool for:

Investigating
(investigating
and carrying out a purposeful inquiry)

Carry
out a purposeful inquiry or research, to test existing understanding, discover
new information and create new understanding.

Creating
(creating
and innovating)

Create
is a process through which learners are provided with an opportunity to
innovate and test boundaries. Learners construct meaning, apply critical thinking
and original ideas to real-world situations, and share knowledge through
self-expression, problem-posing and problem-solving, and reflection.

Communicating: (communicating and exchanging information with varied audiences using a range
of media and formats)

Exchange
of information with various audiences using a range of media and formats.
Effective communicators contribute to cross-cultural understanding, make
informed choices when deciding on tools to articulate meaning, and provide
relevant, significant feedback to others.

·       
Collaborating (collaborating
by actively participating in creating and sharing knowledge)

Collaborating
is the process through which learners validate and negotiate ideas and reach a
deeper understanding and a global perspective. Learners are empowered through
digital media and environments and through active participation in creating and
sharing knowledge.

·       
Organizing: (organizing
and understanding that ICT systems can be used in various ways)

Organizing
is the ability to structure or arrange connected items. Learners understand
that ICT systems can be used to inform, adapt, manage and problem-solve during
their creative, communicative, collaborative and investigative processes.
Learners make connections, transfer existing knowledge and independently
explore new technologies.