Teacher:

• Establishes an environment that encourages and supports student innovation.
• Establishes the context and issue from which students can identify a need or opportunity.
• Provides learning experiences to enable students to successfully structure their own practice in order to develop an appropriate outcome.
• Supports students in accessing resources.
• Provides opportunities for students to access key stakeholders in a safe and appropriate manner.

Achievement Objectives

• Justify the nature of an intended outcome in relation to the need or opportunity. Describe specifications that reflect key stakeholder feedback and that will inform the development of an outcome and its evaluation.

Achievement Objectives

• Analyse their own and others’ planning practices to inform the selection and use of planning tools. Use these to support and justify planning decisions (including those relating to the management of resources) that will see the development of an outcome through to completion.

Achievement Objectives

• Analyse their own and others’ outcomes to inform the development of ideas for feasible outcomes. Undertake ongoing functional modelling and evaluation that takes account of key stakeholder feedback and trialing in the physical and social environments. Use the information gained to select and develop the outcome that best addresses the specifications. Evaluate the final outcome’s fitness for purpose against the brief.

Indicators

• Identify a need or opportunity appropriate to the provided context and issue and develop a conceptual statement to justify what they are developing and why.
• Draft specifications for their outcome that are justified in terms of the context or issue.
• Undertake brief refinement and/or modification as based on their developing skills and knowledge, including understandings of the context/issue and feedback from key stakeholders.
• Develop specifications that allow them, their teacher and key stakeholders to evaluate the fitness for purpose of their outcome.

Indicators

• analyse their previous practice and the planning and organisational practices of others.
• make informed projections about future activities and explore implications for planning and the selection of planning tools.
• Use planning tools to support, document and justify ongoing planning decisions in terms of the need or opportunity their brief is being developed to address.
• Select and manage resources required for specific activities within their practice to complete their outcome.

Indicators

• Carry out analyses of their own and others’ previous outcomes, to inform the development of ideas for feasible outcomes.
• Develop (through research and functional modelling that includes feedback from key stakeholders) conceptual ideas to communicate feasible outcomes that are justifiable in terms of the brief (conceptual statement and specifications).
• Determine suitability of materials justified by evaluation against the specifications for the development of their outcome.
• Develop an outcome through:
  • functional modelling (based on developing knowledge and skills) that test, evaluate and refine their evolving outcome;.
  • Prototyping to trial and evaluate their outcome within the physical and social environment in which it will be placed.
• Use key stakeholder feedback to evaluate the fitness for purpose of their developing and final outcome against the brief.