2018 AIP Technology

Key Faculty Planning Priorities for 2018

  • Improved pedagogy
  • Focus on continuous improvement (Kaizen)
  • Curriculum continuity
  • Information technology

What we are going to do / How we are going to do it / Targets / Who is responsible / When we are going to do it
Improved pedagogy / Dimensions of Learning
Identify lesson & unit focus explicitly to students through continued use of WALT, WILF & TIB. / When asked, students are able to describe the WALT, WILF & TIB of lessons and units. / All Technology staff. / Beginning of each unit/lesson.
Dimensions of Learning
Continued use of peer lesson observations and feedback. / All staff to complete lesson observations as per school-wide requirements. / All Technology staff + HOD to coordinate. / One in each term across terms 1-3.
Dimensions of Learning
Increased use of Graphic Organisers in design based subjects to analyse design factors. / Have all Graphics and Technology Studies students using a graphic organiser to explore design factors. / Teachers of Graphics & Technology Studies. / Ongoing throughout year. Classes will access it at different times.
Dimensions of Learning
Ongoing refinement of standardised unit planning documents to plan how HOM & CRP’s will be explicitly taught in units. / All units to have a unit planner that cites strategies for HOM & CRP. / All Technology Staff. / Ongoing throughout the year.
Dimensions of Learning
Use standardised assessment cover sheets that reference the unit’s HOM & CRP. / All assessment items (including practical projects) to have a task and dimension sheet, that includes the standard cover sheet. / All Technology Staff. / Ongoing throughout the year.
Create and use with classes dimension ‘guide’ sheets to help with the explicit teaching of the subject’s assessable dimensions. / All subjects have the assessable dimensions explicitly taught in class. / All Technology Staff. / Ongoing throughout the year.
Global Perspectives
Sustainability – Continue to source timber from sustainable sources. / 100% of timber sourced from sustainable providers. / James. / Ongoing throughout the year.
Global Perspectives
Promote sustainable practices into workshop practices. / Material recycling bins in all workshops.
Include some projects that incorporate or use recycled materials. / All workshop teachers. / Ongoing throughout the year.
Global Perspectives
Continue ‘social justice & human rights’ aspects as driving factors into design problems within Graphics & Technology Studies. / At least one design problem across the senior course to be based around a social justice or human rights issue. / Teachers of senior Graphics & Tech Studies. / Ongoing throughout the year.
Global Perspectives
Sustainability – Continue to recycle in the kitchen and textiles workshop. / Use excess water for gardens, use of second-hand clothes for fabrics in design tasks. / All HEC staff. / Ongoing throughout the year.
Global Perspectives
Continue ‘social justice & human rights’ aspects as driving factors into design problems within Home Economics and Early Childhood. / Fair trade issues to be investigated in Senior Home Economics. The rights of children around the world to be investigated in Early Childhood courses. / All HEC staff. / Ongoing throughout the year.
What we are going to do / How we are going to do it / Targets / Who is responsible / When we are going to do it
Focus on continuous improvement / Students in Technology subjects to set personal goals for themselves. Staff to support students in attaining these goals. / 100% of students to have a goal for their Technology subject and stated what strategies they will use to achieve their goal. / All Technology staff / Creation of goals: early in Term 1. Review and revise goals early Term 3. Final review in Term 4.
Students in Technology are supplied with a copy of their student profile. Students update profile after each assessment item. Teachers discuss dimensions and what is needed at exit to achieve each LoA. Students align their results with their goals and assess whether they are on track to achieve the exit level they have set as their goal. / Correlation between achievement goals and performance. Students to identify methods to meet goals. / All Technology staff / Ongoing throughout the year, after each assessment item.
Create, review and reflect on Annual Performance Plans. / 100% of staff:
Create APP for 2018.
Review APP throughout year
Reflect on 2018 & create plan for 2019. / All Technology staff / Create APP for 2018 – existing staff, late 2017. New or returning staff, end of week 4 2018.
Review APP throughout year – ongoing across the year
Reflect on 2018 & create plan for 2019– late term 4 2018.
All Technology Staff develop a Data Placemat that includes School Targets, Class Priorities, Students of Interest and Demographics. / 100% of staff to have a current data placemat for all class. / All Technology staff / Creation in early Term 1.
Review and revise early Term 3. Reflection end of Term 4.
Technology staff will have access to PD funding to attend workshops relating to school priorities. 2018 focus will be on syllabus content of new ‘Design’ and ‘Food & Nutrition’ subjects. / 100% of staff get access to appropriate amounts of PD. / Promote opportunities to staff – James
Engage with PD - Teachers / Ongoing throughout year as available.
What we are going to do / How we are going to do it / Targets / Who is responsible / When we are going to do it
Curriculum Continuity / Develop units of work & assessment items to meet amended SAS Study Plans for year 11 courses in 2018. / Develop/revise practical demonstrations to meet requirements of amended study plan. / Building & Construction Skills – Ben
Furnishing Skills – Damien
Engineering Skills – Ben
Industrial Graphics - James / Ongoing for units across the year.
Plan and deliver new courses in year 9 and 10 to prepare students for the new senior subjects ‘Design’ and ‘Food and Nutrition’ / Have junior courses that expose students to the content and assessment style of the senior course. / 9 FAN – Kym
10 FAN – Alison
9 DEZ – Damien and Susannah
10DEZ – James and Brian / Ongoing for units across the year.
All long and short term planning, resources and assessment to be stored centrally on G Drive within subject folders using the faculty standard file structure. / Each subject has a complete package of planning, resources and assessment stored for future use. / All Technology staff. / Ongoing throughout the year.
Identify essential vocabulary and cognitive verbs in standardised unit plans. Have the essential vocabulary and cognitive verbs explicitly taught in classes. / Unit plans to indicate the essential vocabulary and cognitive verbs for each unit. / All Technology staff. / Ongoing throughout the year.
Use the data placemat process to help plan differentiation strategies within classes. / Use the planned differentiation strategies in class and share outcomes at faculty meeting. / All Technology staff. / Ongoing throughout the year.
What we are going to do / How we are going to do it / Targets / Who is responsible / When we are going to do it
Information Technology / Trial a system of moving student safety inductions within the Learning Place environment. / Have students completing safety inductions within Learning Place, and not through a 3rd party provider. / Trial use of – IDT teachers
Initial content creation – James
Learning Place setup - Tarla / First trial completed by end of semester 1.
Continue to use digital communications with parents by throughDaymap. / All parents to receive some form of email communication from teachers. Initial welcome communication as base minimum. / All Technology staff. / Ongoing throughout the year.
Enhance digital communications with students and 24/7 access through the use of Learning Place. / All Technology subjects to have a Learning Place site. Base minimum is storage of course overview, student profile and assessment tasks. / All Technology staff. / Courses established at the start of the year, then updated and referred to across the year.
Introduction of using Adobe and Autodesk software on student BYODs in the subject ‘Design’ / Be able to run units that use these programs outside of a traditional computer lab / Initial planning – James
Implementation – Design teachers + IT support staff / By the end of the year.

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