TP004

Structuring project work to scaffold creative opportunities

Peter Renwick

Participants in this practical teaching presentation will explore how carefully guided project work can introduce students to the process of designing and scaffold their creative ideation. The presentation will focus on the use of sketching as a design thinking tool and will illustrate how design ideas can be grown to meet a specification. The examples used in this presentation will demonstrate how selected areas of technological knowledge can be engineered into a project and achieved by all students.

Examples and hands on activities are included in this presentation.

Intended Audience
The process discussed in this presentation is appropriate to all Technology teachers. However, Lower Secondary teachers would probably be the best group.

No specialist equipment is needed other than a lap top or PC, Data show, pencils and paper. 

Biography

Presently, I am the Curriculum Leader for Technology and Health and PE at The Correspondence School in Wellington.

We have lived in Wellington for two years and are pleased to call it home after living and working in Singapore and Brunei for the last fifteen years.

Before coming to New Zealand, I worked in Singapore for eight years at the National Institute of Education. Nanyang Technological University. I taught on the Design and Technology Post Graduate Teacher Training course. I was responsible for pre-service and in-service programmes which included an HOD programme and also worked closely with the MOE on the delivery of Design and Technology curriculum in schools.