Passing the ICT Skills Test

Passing the ICT Skills Test

Author: Clive Ferrigan

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2011-01-04

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 0857252577

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All trainee teachers hoping to gain Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) need to pass a computerised ICT skills test. The test is designed to ensure all those qualifying as teachers have a sound grasp of fundamental ICT skills such as databases, word processing and the Internet and can apply these in their work both in and out of the classroom. This text outlines the test requirements and explains the basic subject knowledge essential to completing the test. The fourth edition is fully updated to comply with the latest TDA standards and includes new self-assessment questions.


Passing the Literacy Skills Test

Passing the Literacy Skills Test

Author: Jim Johnson

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2008-09-17

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 1844454169

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All trainee teachers hoping to gain Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) need to pass a computerised literacy skills test. The test is designed to ensure they all have a sound grasp of fundamental literacy skills such as spelling, punctuation and grammar and can apply these in their role as a teacher. This book outlines the test requirements and explains the essential basic subject knowledge. This edition also includes a glossary, suggestions for further reading and ‘hints’ boxes. Over 100 practice questions and answers enable trainees to prepare to complete their test confidently and successfully.


Passing the Numeracy Skills Test

Passing the Numeracy Skills Test

Author: Mark Patmore

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2008-09-17

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13: 1844454150

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All trainee teachers hoping to gain Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) need to pass a computerised numeracy skills test. The test is designed to ensure they have a sound grasp of numeracy skills such as mental arithmetic and interpreting statistics, and can apply these in their work. This book outlines the test requirements and explains the essential subject knowledge needed. Fully updated to comply with the TDA standards, this edition also includes a glossary and suggestions for further reading. At least 100 practice questions and answers enable trainees to prepare to complete their test confidently and successfully.


Meeting the Standards in Primary ICT

Meeting the Standards in Primary ICT

Author: Steve Higgins

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-12-30

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1134581467

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"This book is not just limited to the use of ICT in the classroom but looks at the wider role of ICT in supporting effective professional development. It will be an invaluable resource that will benefit all trainee teachers on primary training courses. It will also be a reference for lecturers and mentors supporting trainees on these courses as well as NQTs in the early stages of their teaching career."--Jacket.


ICT Fluency and High Schools

ICT Fluency and High Schools

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2006-07-26

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 0309180708

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Information and communications technology (ICT) pervades virtually all domains of modern life-educational, professional, social, and personal. Yet although there have been numerous calls for linkages that enable ICT competencies acquired in one domain to benefit another, this goal has largely remained unrealized. In particular, while technology skills and applications at work could be greatly enhanced by earlier complementary learning at school-particularly in K-12 education, a formative and influential stage in a person's life-little progress has been made on such linkages. At present, the curricula of most U.S. high schools focus on skills in the use of tools such as specific word-processing software or contemporary Internet search engines. Although these kinds of skills are certainly valuable-at least for a while-they comprise just one component, and the most rudimentary component, of ICT competencies. The National Academies held a workshop in October 2005 to address the specifics of ICT learning during the high school years would require an explicit effort to build on that report. The workshop was designed to extend the work begun in the report Being Fluent with Information Technology, which identified key components of ICT fluency and discussed their implications for undergraduate education. ICT Fluency and High Schools summarizes the workshop, which had three primary objectives: (1) to examine the need for updates to the ICT-fluency framework presented in the 1999 study; (2) to identify and analyze the most promising current efforts to provide in high schools many of the ICT competencies required not only in the workplace but also in people's day-to-day functioning as citizens; and (3) to consider what information or research is needed to inform efforts to help high school students develop ICT fluency.


The Insider's Guide for New Teachers

The Insider's Guide for New Teachers

Author: Sara Bubb

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-12-16

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1135723826

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Writing in an accessible, engaging style, Sara Bubb tackles all the essential 'need to know' topics for trainee or newly qualified teachers from the perspective of someone actually involved in training or teaching. This book features illuminating anecdotes and answers questions posed by individuals already in the process of studying or teaching. It covers the whole spectrum of experience - from meeting the standards to gaining qualified teacher status (QTS), to managing relationships at college and school. Maintaining a practical focus throughout, the book is peppered with handy checklists, case studies and useful tips. This will be an indispensable handbook for any trainee teacher needing advice and information.


Education at a Glance 2014 OECD Indicators

Education at a Glance 2014 OECD Indicators

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2014-09-09

Total Pages: 570

ISBN-13: 9264215050

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This book provides annual data on the structure, finances, and performance of education systems in the OECD’s 34 member countries, as well as a number of partner countries.


Debates in Religious Education

Debates in Religious Education

Author: L. Philip Barnes

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011-07-07

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1136702679

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Debates in Religious Education is an accessible and comprehensive guide to the issues that are currently central to discussions in religious education; it is written with the needs of both trainee and practising teachers in mind.


The Skills for Life Survey

The Skills for Life Survey

Author: Joel Williams

Publisher: The Stationery Office

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780112711605

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Basic skills tests (based on the National Standards for adult basic skills) were carried out between June 2002 and May 2003, on a sample of over eight thousand adults normally resident in England. The tests were combined with a background questionnaire (social survey). This report provides many detailed statistics but some of the the main findings are noted below. 44 per cent of the respondents achieved Level 2 or above in the literacy assessment, but 16 per cent were classified at Entry level 3. In the numeracy test, 25 per cent achieved Level 2 or above, but 47 per cent were classified at Entry level 3 or below. Overall, 47 per cent were classified at Entry level 3 or below, in either literacy or numeracy, and only 18 per cent achieved Level 2 or above for both literacy and numeracy.