PowerPoint presentations about energy

Neil Woodcock is a technical teacher at Jedburgh Grammar School. He uses a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation to teach Standard Grade technological studies to his S3 pupils. In this lesson, he is covering different forms of energy, such as solar energy and fossil fuels. Neil has been using this teaching method for the past year and he finds it a very efficient way of delivering a lesson that can otherwise be quite dry.

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Neil Woodcock has been teaching for four years, in two different schools. He is currently teaching craft design and technological studies to 11-18 year-old pupils at Jedburgh Grammar School. 

Neil uses ICT extensively in his lessons. He uses the data projector and PowerPoint presentation in almost every lesson. He comments that this technology is proving to be invaluable for the subjects that he teaches, which can sometimes be quite ‘dry’ for the pupils. Above all, Neil sees the interactive element of the technology as crucial to his teaching. This enables him to draw pupils’ attention to the content in a much more efficient way compared to the old pen and paper method. 

Neil recently attended a Masterclass programme, but otherwise has developed most of his ICT skills by practising and exploring the technology in his own time. 

Jedburgh Grammar School is situated in the Scottish Borders and serves a predominantly rural area. It has 450 pupils, 22 of whom have special needs and one pupil has English as a second language. The average length of teacher service is over 20 years. 

The school has 110 computers with four dedicated ICT rooms. A full time ICT coordinator is shared between several local schools. All members of staff have had NOF core training in ICT. 

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