Friday, 13 March 2009

S1 Administration Taster Lessons

With the S1 Options approaching, we organised Administration Taster lessons for all 13 of the S1 classes. We talked them through what skills they would learn during the S2 course, what pathway they could follow through school and gave them an idea of the types of job where the skills would be useful.

The classes were all given a task of producing a presentation on a capital city - they had to use the internet to research 3 places to see or things to do, a place to stay and a place to eat in the city. They then had to use MS Powerpoint to create their presentation. And all of this had to be done in 25-30 minutes!

To see many of the Powerpoint presentations the pupils produced, click on the Pupil Work link on the menu on the right. Please feel free to leave any comments about presentations you particularly like. 

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Great idea Mr Alexander. As you are aware, at my school the S2 course is really a Computing taster course, but I am sure that after some comments made by our HMIe Inspector we will have the opportunity to have taster modules for S3 Administration and S3 Accounting & Finance.

I like the World Cities idea! I have been dabbling with City Breaks for the Travel Unit in S4 Administration as we still do Standard Grade, but perhaps some similar short 2-3 period activity would go down well.