Teacher:

• Establishes an environment that encourages and supports student innovation.
• Provides a context and issue for the students to undertake Technological Practice.
• 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 and the wider community stakeholders in a safe and appropriate manner.

Achievement Objectives

• Justify the nature of an intended outcome in relation to the need or opportunity and justify specifications in terms of key stakeholder feedback and wider community considerations.

Achievement Objectives

• Critically analyse their own and others’ past and current planning practices in order to make informed selection and effective use of planning tools. Use these to support and justify ongoing planning that will see the development of an outcome through to completion.

Achievement Objectives

• Critically analyse their own and others’ outcomes to inform the development of ideas for feasible outcomes.
• Undertake ongoing experimentation and functional modelling, taking account of stakeholder feedback and trialing in the physical and social environments. Use the information gained to select, justify, and develop a final outcome.
• Evaluate this outcome’s fitness for purpose against the brief and justify the evaluation using feedback from stakeholders.

Indicators

• Explore the provided context and issue in order to identify and justify a need or opportunity.
• Develop a brief that:
  • Clearly communicates and justifies an outcome that allows for the resolution or realisation of the need or opportunity;.
  • reflects the opportunities and constraints on both the outcome and the practice to be undertaken.
• Undertake brief refinement and/or modification as based on their developing skills and knowledge, including understandings of physical and social environment and feedback from key and wider community stakeholders.
• Develop specifications that allow them, their teacher, and key and wider community stakeholders to evaluate the fitness for purpose of their outcome.

Indicators

• Carry out ongoing critical analyses and evaluation of their own and others’ past and current planning and organisational practices.
• make informed projections about future activities that are supported by dynamic planning tools in order to document and justify planning decisions in terms of the physical and social environment in which their brief is embedded.
• Justify the management of resources to undertake Technological Practice in terms of the physical and social environment in which their practice is occurring, as well as the opportunities and/or constraints resulting from the specific practice they undertake.

Indicators

• Carry out ongoing critical analyses of their own and others’ outcomes, to inform the development of ideas for feasible outcomes.
• Develop (through research and functional modelling that includes feedback from key and wider community stakeholders) conceptual ideas to communicate feasible outcomes that are justifiable in terms of the brief (conceptual statement and specifications) and the physical and social environment in which their outcome is to be developed and finally placed.
• Justify the suitability of materials selected to enable the development of an outcome that meets the specifications and is appropriate to the physical and social environment in which it will be developed and placed.
• Develop an outcome and justify key decisions through:
  • Informed 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.
• Evaluate their developing and final outcome’s fitness for purpose against the brief using key and wider community stakeholder feedback to justify its suitability for the physical and social environment in which it will be placed.