Teacher:

• Establishes an environment that encourages and supports student innovation.
• Provides a context for students to undertake Technological Practice.
• Supports student learning as they structure and plan activities as required to enable them to undertake their Technological Practice to develop an appropriate outcome.
• Supports students in accessing resources.
• Provides opportunities for students to access key and wider community stakeholders in a safe and appropriate manner.

Achievement Objectives

• Justify the nature of an intended outcome in relation to the issue to be resolved 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 and management practices in order to develop and employ project management practices that will ensure the effective development of an outcome to completion.

Achievement Objectives

• Critically analyse their own and others’ outcomes and evaluative practices to inform the development of ideas for feasible outcomes. Undertake a critical evaluation that is informed by ongoing experimentation and functional modelling, stakeholder feedback, and trialing in the physical and social environments. Use the information gained to select, justify, and develop an outcome. Evaluate this outcome’s fitness for purpose against the brief. Justify the evaluation using feedback from stakeholders and demonstrating a critical understanding of the issue.

Indicators

• Explore the provided context in order to establish an issue and identify a need or opportunity that can be justified in terms of the physical and social environment.
• Develop a brief that:
  • Clearly communicates an outcome that allows for the resolution or realisation of the need or opportunity and justifies this in terms of the selected issue;.
  • 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 self and team management practices.
• make informed projections about future activities that are supported by dynamic planning tools developed to manage, document and justify planning decisions in terms of the physical and social environment in which their brief is embedded .
• organise learning experiences to gain new knowledge and skills identified in planning as being needed to develop their outcome.
• 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, with particular regard to each outcome’s fitness for purpose, to inform their outcome’s development.
• Develop (through research and functional modelling that incorporates feedback from discussions with key and wider community stakeholders) conceptual ideas that communicate feasible outcomes that are justifiable in terms of the brief, and the physical and social environment in which the outcome is to be developed and finally situated.
• Justify the suitability of materials to enable the development and of outcome 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 to address the issue.