Introducing the guidelines to staff and parents

This section introduces a series of workshops designed to assist teachers and parents to begin to gain familiarity with the content of the national guidelines and to explore the impact of the guidelines on how they deal with ICT. The workshop materials supplement training provided through other sources and do

not set out to tackle coverage of all the issues concerned with the development of ICT. More detailed training for teachers and librarians is provided through the NOF training programme and by training initiatives, such as the forthcoming course 'ICT Training for Primary Headteachers' (LT Scotland).

The approach adopted is based on a number of approximately 40-minute workshops that might be used in school-based in-service training (INSET) sessions. The may also be used to introduce parents to the national guidelines for ICT 5-14.

The workshop materials will be available to print or download on the Learning and Teaching Scotland 5-14 website (www.LTScotland.com) from early 2001.

The workshops have been arranged in a broadly sequential order but can be altered according to the priorities of different establishments. Alternatively, a selection of the workshops, suitably customised to suit the circumstances of individual schools, might be combined to form a part- or full-day staff development programme. Further, there is the useful possibility of the resource being used to form the basis of associated school group working or specific primary-secondary liaison initiatives.

The workshop material has been given a standard format. It comprises A4 sheets and includes, for example, the task title and the suggested time allocation, purpose and audience, reference materials and equipment needed, and organisation and methodology.

The workshops cover the following topics.