A Curriculum for Excellence – Draft Technologies Outcomes
7:19 pm on the 2nd of April, 2008
Monday the 14th of April sees the publication of the draft outcomes for Technologies. I’m really looking forward to seeing what is in them and where we may be going, Technologies is such a broad name and it could cover anything we wanted it to, hopefully there won’t be a trap of covering everything – and in the end nothing to a reasonable depth. At the same time I hope we will not be sticking too closely to the ‘traditional’ view of technical where all we teach is how to make sawdust and filings, and instead we are able to position ourselves so we can teach at the forefront of advancing technologies and keep up with the demands of industry – whichever industry that may be at the time.
I also hope deep down that design will feature heavily in a way that will embed design into everything that we as technology teachers do, and also into what every other teacher does.
Awkwardly that date coincides with something else which you may, or may not hear more about later – although that may actually save my skin a little (anyone worked out what I’m on about?)
Image credit: Red Bridge – Originally uploaded by El Fotopakismo
Tags: ACfE, Curriculum, Curriculum-for-Excellence, Design, draft-outcomes, education, outcomes, scotland, technologies, technology_teachers
