Technology 2014 National Workshop – session one, activity one – reviewing your junior technology programme
Aspect
Current situation
How is the technology learning area part of the NZC incorporated
in your junior programme?
Aim of technological literacy, strands, achievement objectives
How are the other aspects of the NZC embedded and explicit in
your junior programme?
Vision, Principles, Values, Key Competencies, Effective pedagogy,
Teaching as Inquiry, Subject specific literacy, school based curriculum
What is the balance like in your junior programme?
(skills, subject knowledge, technology AOs, NZC key
competencies and values, and ‘other’ such as school
priorities or thematic approach)
How do you have a focus on developing quality outcomes and
developing the skills necessary to produce quality outcomes?
What is the coverage of AOs like across the
programme?
How do you have a planned progression linked
curriculum levels?
to
What backwards mapping have you done to ensure the students
are prepared for the demands of the senior programme?
What lessons have you learned as you implemented NCEA that can
inform the review of your junior programme?
(develop writing or research skills, scaffold content from early years,
vocab, other)
Knowing your learners
How has your junior technology programme reflect the needs of the
learners at your school including the needs of Maori students, Pasifika
students, and students with special educational needs?
Developed by technology facilitators working in the Secondary Student Achievement contract for use in the 2014 national workshops in technology
Next steps or ideas to investigate
and/or develop