What next?
Malcolm Howard thinks the Year 10 course is "pretty close" to being right.
"In the past we've made some pretty major changes to some of the units, but now it's just a case of on-going refinement. A focus in 2007 will be building on the experience gained through experimentation with incorporating the 'Nature of Technology' and 'Technological Knowledge' strands of the Draft Curriculum Statement for Technology into the Year 10 programme." In 2007 first term will focus on 'Planning for Practice' only and Steve and Malcolm aim to refine their assessment system slightly to bring it in line with curriculum levels.
The 2007 Year 11 ICT course builds on the Year 10 programme by covering website creation, print creation, computer graphics and animation, an introduction to computer programming, presentation and design skills and societal issues relating to ICT. The course is practically-based with one major web-related project plus a research assignment related to the project. Assessment uses mainly Achievement Standards - it's a 28 credit course (24 Achievement Standard and four Unit Standard credits) with students expected to choose between 20 and 24 credits.
