Class Operations

	Children, on-line learning and authentic teaching skills in primary education
	Class Operation

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One teacher reported the need for an increased use of groups in the operation of the class in order to accommodate the use of ICT:

Groups enable ICT facilities to be utilised in parallel with other group activities
Groups enable the teacher to arrange working structures that are able to support individual students and minimise the disruptive demands made on the teacher by less able students
Providing opportunities for student to use ICT can be problematic
- scheduling is complex
- many ICT based tasks are done over a longer period of time in order to give all students reasonable access
There appears to be a need to
- align class/group/individual goals and tasks (see diagram below)
- train the students (and achieve a class culture) to be able to move from one configuration to another: classes skilled in cooperative learning appear to manage this more easily

This leads to issues of alignment, specifically alignment of
- purposes
- 'policies'
- practices