Teacher to support students to create informal and formal opportunities throughout learning experiences to share and challenge ideas with a range of others inside and outside of the school environment. Teacher should focus formative interactions on encouraging students to be self reflective and critical to ensure they move towards deeper more sophisticated understandings. Teacher challenges students as they make links to past experiences and as they critically consider the implications for their future learning in technology. Teacher should challenge students to justify their selection of examples of technologies/technological development as providing opportunity for meeting task requirements and ensure student’s choice of other learning during the year will allow them to achieve in technology at this level For example, specific sciences and arts subjects are chosen as relevant to their technology programme focus.

Technological Modelling

Technological Products

Technological Systems

Achievement Objectives

• Understand how the “should” and “could” decisions in technological modelling rely on an understanding of how evidence can change in value across contexts and how different tools are used to ascertain and mitigate risk.

Achievement Objectives

• Understand the concepts and processes employed in materials evaluation and the implications of these for design, development, maintenance, and disposal of technological products.

Achievement Objectives

• Understand the concepts of redundancy and reliability and their implications for the design, development, and maintenance of technological systems.

Indicators

• Understand why it is necessary to critically explore what ‘can’ be done and what ‘should ‘ be done when making justifiable decisions.
  understand that different communities accept different types of evidence as dependent on a range of factors (such as ethics, purpose, perceived authority of people involved in evidence presentation etc) and why this must be taken into account in constructive argumentation about ‘should’ and ‘could’ decisions.
• Understand how different risks can be ascertained prior to their realisation and what strategies can be employed to mitigate these.

Indicators

• Understand key concepts and processes that underpin material evaluation, (such as chemical standards to compare physical properties to identify methods of detection and evaluation).
• Understand how these concepts and processes interact in the design, development, maintenance and disposal of technological products.

Indicators

• Understand the concept of reliability and the implications for the design, development and maintenance of technological systems.
• Understand the concept of redundancy and the implications for the design, development, and maintenance of technological systems.