Teacher:

• Establishes an environment that encourages and supports student innovation.
• Supports students as they undertake initial research to establish an appropriate context and issue.
• 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 context and the issue to be resolved. 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 efficient development of an outcome to completion.

Achievement Objectives

• Critically analyse their own and others’ outcomes and their determination of fitness for purpose in order to inform the development of ideas for feasible outcomes. Undertake a critical evaluation that is informed by ongoing experimentation and functional modelling, stakeholder feedback, trialing in the physical and social environments, and an understanding of the issue as it relates to the wider context. 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 that takes account of all contextual dimensions.

Indicators

• Critically evaluate a range of contexts and associated issues to establish a feasible context and issue suitable for Technological Practice.
• Explore the established issue to identify a need or opportunity that can be justified in terms of the physical and social environment of the context.
• 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 wider context in which the issue sits;.
  • 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 in its broadest sense.

Indicators

• Develop an initial plan that allows for extensive exploratory work to establish a suitable context and issue, and subsequent need or opportunity to be determined and evaluated.
• 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 use of 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 and evaluate learning experiences to gain new knowledge and skills identified in planning as being needed to develop their outcome.
• Critically evaluate the management of learning activities, opportunities and/or constraints resulting from specific practices undertaken, and the management of resources in an ongoing manner throughout Technological Practice, and justify these in terms of the physical and social environment, in which their practice is occurring to address the context and issue.

Indicators

• Carry out ongoing critical analyses of their own and others’ outcomes, with particular regard to each outcome’s fitness for purpose in the broadest sense, to inform their outcome’s development.
• Develop (through research and functional modelling justified by key, wider community stakeholders’ feedback and historical and contemporary issues related to the context) conceptual ideas that communicate outcomes that are justifiable in terms of its fitness for purpose in the broadest sense.
• Justify the suitability of materials to enable the development and production of an outcome appropriate to the physical and social environment in which it will be developed and placed, and clearly explaining the contribution selected resources make to their outcome’s fitness for purpose (in the broadest sense).
• 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.
• Critically evaluate their developing and final outcome’s fitness for purpose against the brief, issue and context, using key and wider community stakeholder feedback to justify its fitness for purpose in the broadest sense.