Group 1.9 - ASK JEAL

Story telling is one of the most important factors within primary schooling. It is not only of significance to schools because of the literacy factors it contributes to, but I can also develop social skills and begin to develop numeracy skills.  Jessica-mae Light, Elizabeth Williams-Wynn, Alison Price (myself) and Eve Bangwan. Discovering and taking part in storytelling during a university seminar.  Storytelling can obviously increase literary skills such as reading and spelling, as well as introducing and enhancing knowledge around colour and artistic techniques through the use of illustrations. Practicing reading and telling stories will highly develop skills needed to develop academically within primary school. With anything practice will improve the quality of the skill you are trying to develop, as reading is fun and enjoyable for the children they are practicing reading and literacy without really knowing.  Numerical skills can also be...

theartofed.com I believe all subjects within primary education should be taught in a cross curricula format, this is because of the many positive influences this teaching style can have on children within primary education. Integration of subjects is considered to increase understanding through creating connections between ideas in meaningful learning contexts, (Dave et al. 2012.) children remember things they are taught and are more likely to understand them when there is meaning behind it. Creating links across subjects can heighten the learning experience, perhaps for example when they are learning something to do with numeracy and literacy. For example labelling a graph within a maths lesson. Here the children are relating skills they have developed in literacy for example -  capital letters for titles and names - whilst relating them to a maths lesson, creating these important links. As later on when they are learning or repeating this knowledge in a literacy lesson, they...

Games for maths are making maths fun and enjoyable for all children involved in them. Interactivity plays a big role in the importance of games used for learning maths. When I was in secondary school was the first time I was introduced to an online interactive maths game, but this still was only essentially an online worksheet, with few to little animations you could interact with. Unlike this, now there are games in which you can create your own worlds by playing a character, proceed up levels to gain rewards, some even link with social media or other online games and can help with them too. This high level of interaction within the games, means the children forget about the idea that they are learning maths or doing maths homework, for to them they are only playing an enjoyable game. This is positive because it means that children are more willing to complete their homework as they enjoy it and are subconsciously learning through the individual maths tasks they have been set. But, d...

  Competition is considered as one of today’s important factors within education. From test results to school rankings and Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) table, the world has fully focused on exposing their country’s effectiveness in the use of technology. With our knowledge of the United Kingdom being classed as a developing country, economically our state governments are in favour to provide schools with technological devices in order to implement advanced skills for our future employment. Conti (2016) expressed that we are in an augmented age where natural human abilities will be supported by computational systems that would help you think and design. Again, emphasising Donaldson’s (2015) ‘Successful Futures’ – implementation of digital competency is one of the main focuses of Wales. In contrast to that, Beauchamp (2017) displayed the concept of England introducing a new computing curriculum in 2014. It seems like that the whole of the U...

beinspired.com (pintrest) ‘If we teach today as we taught yesterday we rob children of tomorrow,’ (Dewey, 1994).  Using technology within the classroom is vital in allowing children their best opportunity at learning. If technology was not included in classrooms teachers would be completely restricting the possibilities of the children they are teaching. ‘You don’t need to use technology in every interaction with students however there are many compelling reasons to use ICT in our classroom; from motivating students and enhancing learning the learning experience to facilitating planning and the organisation elements of education,’ (Younie and Leask, 2015).  Having ipads in classrooms as a teaching tool along side teachers is extremely beneficial. Technology is quick for research and allows the teacher to have assistance other than a TA. Thus resulting in better and higher quality education for the children being taught, as they do not need to wait for t...

Reading for pleasure ‘The concept of ‘reading for pleasure’ is associated with ‘reading enjoyment’ and is variously described as recreational reading’ (Ross et al, 2006). liverpoollearningpartnership.com Reading is well known for developing literary skills subconsciously for the children involved. But when children are reading for pleasure and when children are reading because they want too it creates a healthy relationship with literacy as a subject as well as education as a whole. Practicing anything increases your ability and the idea of children practicing their reading in a way that they enjoy, through reading a book they like is really positive. In a fun way children are developing their literacy and reading skills, whilst also their creativity as reading stories will enhance and use their imagination. All of these skills are needed throughout the curriculum and reading therefore begins to holistically enhance the child's academic abilities. A...