They also have tireless enthusiasm to help especially as it is rewarded through recognition of their abilities. Use pre prepared computer lesson plans that you can find in books or on the Internet. But, make sure that they have clear instructions or you will have to spend time rewriting them from just an idea into a lesson plan. Put your lesson ideas and illustrations on an overhead projector so that the whole class can see or give out a photocopy . I personally don t like this as it pulls students out of lessons that they really need to know.
Students just move to the computers when it s their time and return at the end of the period.
Spread the computers around the room so that small groups can work together on a project integrating the computer lesson plan into a current research topic or thematic unit. This is particularly effective and teaches group learning skills . Lay out the computers with a series of computer lesson plans laminated on cards that students can choose from. They must complete them all by the end of the year and submit the finished work before moving on to the next card. They choose the order and tick them off a wall chart as they finish.