Emma+Ahmed

My name is Emma and I am from England. My husband, who also works at my school, and I have a 10 month old son who keeps us very busy. (Yes, he's the one that was screaming outside the door this morning, sorry!)

I am a homeroom teacher for 8-9 year olds at Taihu International School, Wuxi, here in China and I also teach ICT to the PYP classes. I have been in China for 18 months and before that I also taught in Colombia (not Columbia as everyone always mis-spells it!) as well as back home in England. I am looking learning lots of great new things to share with my classes.

Day 1 reflection I am struggling with my laptop turning itself off... and how to motivate the other teachers in my school to use ICT effectively as a tool. I think from discussing the role of ICT in the PYP I feel that I am facilitating the development of ICT in my lessons as we collaboratively plan what we will cover and often link to unit work or develops a skill they need to inquire but I would like to see more effective use when teachers are using ICT to research.