Food for YouAustralian Curriculum

Editions

Let’s hear from ACARA

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lvhU_CVJHo

What’s happening in Victoria

• Noted Technologies: Design and Technologies curriculum released

• Follows a decision by the Council of federal, state and territory education

ministers that the curriculums should be made available to states and territories

for their use.

• Schools can start preparing and making changes

• Let’s embrace it

Understanding the Australian Curriculum (AC)• Food specialisations

- 4 contexts: our study is about Food specialisations, a little on Food and fibre production.

• General capabilities

- Literacy

- Numeracy

- ICT capability

- Critical and creative thinking

- Personal and social capabilities

- Ethical understanding

- Intercultural understanding

Understanding the Australian Curriculum (AC)

Cross curriculum priorities:

• Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures

• Sustainability

New terminology

• See glossary of terms

• Glossary of verbs

Health and PE incorporated in Food and Tech curriculum

Learning the lingo of the AC

Glossary of VerbsAnalyse Consider in detail for the purpose of finding meaning or relationships, and identifying patterns, similarities and differences

Apply Use, utilise or employ in a particular situation

Calculate work out the value of a mathematical or arithmetical procedure

Categorise To classify by labelling or giving a name to

Compare Estimate, measure or note how things are similar or dissimilar

Demonstrate Give a practical exhibition an explanation

Describe Give an account of characteristics or features

Design Plan and evaluate the construction of a product or process

Develop To elaborate or expand in detail

Discuss Talk or write about a topic, taking in to account different issues or ideas

Design brief A concise statement clarifying the project task and defining the need or opportunity to be resolved after some analysis, investigation

and research. It usually identifies the users, criteria for success, constraints, available resources, timeframe for the project and may include

possible consequences and impacts.

Design processes Processes that typically involve investigating; generating; producing; evaluating and collaborating and managing to create a

designed solution that considers social, cultural and environmental factors. In Design and Technologies technologies processes includes design

processes and production processes.

Design thinking Use of strategies for understanding design problems and opportunities, visualising and generating creative and innovative ideas,

and analysing and evaluating those ideas that best meet the criteria for success and planning.

Designed solutions In Design and Technologies, the products, services or environments that have been created for a specific purpose or intention

as a result of design thinking, design processes and production processes.

Learning the lingo of the AC

Environmental sustainability Practices that have minimal impact on ecosystem health, allow renewal of natural systems and value

environment qualities that support life.

Food specialisations A technologies context focused on the application of nutrition principles and knowledge about the characteristics and

properties of food to food selection and preparation; and contemporary technology-related food issues

healthy eating dietary patterns that aim to promote health and wellbeing including the types and amounts of foods and food groups which

reduce the risk of diet-related conditions and chronic disease

Producing Actively realising (making) designed solutions using appropriate resources and means of production.

Production processes In Design and Technologies the technologies context-specific processes used to transform technologies into products,

services or environments, for example the steps used for producing a product.

Learning the lingo of the AC

Learning the lingo of design for the AC

Polls everywhere!

• Give it a go!

• https://www.polleverywhere.com/multiple_choice_polls/0MGMelrtFWrtSKQ

How is this edition different?

• Strong links to ethics and sustainability

• Healthy eating focus

• Significantly more use of ICT for student devices

Let’s Collaborate

Design Solutions

Investigate it

ICT for student devices

• Pinterest

http://www.pinterest.com/chrissyjcollins/

Encourage students to develop their own digital portfolio

Check this one out

The Food book that you know and love

What’s the same:

• Design briefs – easy to use

• Student tested recipes – same old favourites with a twist

• Career profiles (Book 2)

• Tasty trivia – for engagement and discussion

Design briefs – easy to use

Student tested recipes

Some old favourites with a twist

Career profiles

Tasty trivia – for engagement and discussion

Written for students

• Visual

• Engaging

• Interactive

• Student friendly

• Productions clearly identified

• Supported activities

• Fun consolidation techniques

Written for students

• Student friendly• Productions clearly identified• Supported activities• Fun consolidation techniques

Understanding the pressures of the classroom

• Requires little preparation from you

• Design briefs clearly set out

• Updated terminology

• Create differentiation in the classroom – higher order questioning

• Course outlines available including learning intentions

• Pick up and go

Understanding the pressures of the classroom• Easily structure your lesson:• Goal or learning intention identified

• All focus areas explained

• A range of student friendly activities, for all learners

• Review, summary and text knowledge

Thank you!

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