Teacher to challenge students to ensure they access diverse and critical feedback throughout their learning experiences. 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 critically critique their past experiences and as they critically consider the implications for their future learning in way which support increasingly innovative practices. Teacher should challenge students to justify their selection of examples of technologies/technological development as providing opportunity to surpass and/or extend the requirements of the set task 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 the role of technological modelling as a key part of technological development, justifying its importance on moral, ethical, sustainable, cultural, political, economic, and historical grounds.

Achievement Objectives

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

Achievement Objectives

• Understand operational parameters and their role in the design, development, and maintenance of technological systems.

Indicators

• Understand the critical role of technological modelling in making informed, responsive and defensible decisions about technological developments.
• Understand how different tools are used in ascertaining and mitigating risk as based on a deep understanding of historical antecedents and the interactions between often competing and contestable factors (for example, factors arising from differing moral, ethical, cultural, and/or political views; the way in which people adhere to and understand issues such as sustainability, globalisation, democracy, global warming etc).

Indicators

• Understand key concepts and processes that underpin material development (such as chemical stability and fitness for purpose; means of matter generation; means of separation and purification, comparison of alternative production for economic advantage).
• Understand how these concepts and processes interact in the design, development, maintenance and ultimate disposal of technological products.

Indicators

• Understand key concepts and processes that underpin the operational parameters of technological systems (such as energy efficiency, fail-safe, back up, redundancy, and performance tolerances).
• Understand the complex interactions leading to the development of safe and reliable operational parameters for the design and development of systems.
• Understand how ongoing maintenance interacts with and supports the operational parameters of technological systems.