Enhancing Learning through Creative Task Design for Year 8 Food Studies
This session focuses on the importance of designing and selecting tasks that meet the diverse needs of Year 8 students in Food Studies. Educators are tasked to craft engaging and relevant activities that inspire creativity and are rooted in the Programme of Study. It emphasizes reflecting on task effectiveness and ensuring they add value to the learning experience. Best practices for compelling learning are highlighted, including the importance of cross-curricular connections and collaborative teaching approaches to foster a rich educational environment.
Enhancing Learning through Creative Task Design for Year 8 Food Studies
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Presentation Transcript
If a task does not respond to learner needs – it is not adding value to the learning process Task creation Task selection
TASK: Master chef Cook up a satisfying task to serve up to a hungry class of mixed ability Yr 8 Student, teaching them about items of food. . • Creativity • Quality of task • PoS coverage
TASK: Master chef Feedback a summary of the task, and how it relates to the Programme of Study. • Creativity • Quality of task • PoS coverage
The New Secondary Curriculum • Best practice for compelling learning • Doing what is right/relevant for YOUR students • Creative opportunities • Skills across the curriculum • Joined up thinking.. joined up learning: Remit to consider cross-curricular learning
Q15 • Know and understand the relevant statutory and non-statutory curricula and frameworks, including those provided through the National Strategies, for their subjects/curriculum areas, and other relevant initiatives applicable to the age and ability range for which they are trained. Q22 • Plan for progression across the age and ability range for which they are trained, designing effective learning sequences within lessons and across series of lessons and demonstrating secure subject/curriculum knowledge
Q32 Work as a team member and identify opportunities for working with colleagues, sharing the development of effective practice with them. Q6 Have a commitment to collaboration and cooperative working.
