Professional development courses for teaching staff, based around National Curriculum PoS and QCA schemes of work for ICT. All contain elements of ;

• strategies for teaching and learning in the classroom
• creating resources
• assessing pupil capability
• learning to use appropriate software

• email and the Internet
• Microsoft Office

Advice is available on all aspects of the use and application of ICT across the curriculum.

• Classroom management
• Audit of hardware and software
• Software for the curriculum
• Planning and developing the ICT curriculum
• Post Ofsted developments
• Special needs and ICT
• New technologies in the classroom

EMU provides assessment, advice and consultancy for the bespoke use of ICT to support individual, statemented pupils.

EMU works with the LEA, Sandwell Health Authority (Speech and Language Therapy and Occupational Therapy), Social Services and classroom practitioners to support such pupils.

EMU projects facilitate the curriculum delivery to pupils whilst enabling staff training. Projects are negotiable for all key stages.

All projects

• Introduce new technologies and software within a curriculum focussed activity
• Develop pupil confidence and self esteem
• Develop interpersonal skills
• Provide realistic contexts through links with local industries and agencies
• Link to pupil assessment and awards

Introducing pupils to computer control and challenging them to create procedures to control a set of traffic lights. A second challenge uses an input device.

The project relates tot he QCA ICT scheme of work for years 5 and 6 :
Unit 5E Controlling devices
Unit 6C Control and monitoring

A partnership with Sandwell MBC's urban form department resulted in the development of a major resource pack which has been distributed to all Sandwell schools.Pupils and teachers worked together to ensure the resource pack reflected the needs of local schools.

Using data logging equipment to measure environmental factors such as temperature, high and soil moisture, pupils are challenged to test their hypotheses.This project usually takes place off site and is designed to meet many of the requirements of QCA ICT and NC science for KS3.
ICT Unit 7 Measuring physical data
SCI KS3 SC1 1B; SC1 2G; SC2 5D