[Design and Technology] Top Designs
Mike Kaplan
mikkap at bigpond.com
Sat Apr 27 13:08:28 EST 2013
I am a Woodwork teacher that has also been extremely dissapointed for my
students. One in particular put his heart and soul into his SAT only to
find two pages in a 100 page folio not fitting the criteria due to
photos indicating lack of PPE. I agree this should not have been
included but can not understand for the life of me why the mistakes were
not pointed out and a correction or removal of these faults allowed.
When everything else was up to A+ Standard, isn't this what we want to
see as a teaching and student community? Are we going to go 100% in the
opposite direction from the original intent of Top Designs and the
Design Curriculum and become so pedantic that no student in the ordinary
school will ever be able to meet the criteria? Many of the students that
have pushed themselves to the limits have never succeeded in school
before. Many hope to go on in a trade representing their skills. What is
the future for our subject if allowances are not made for being human?
Mike Kaplan
Glenvale School
On 4/27/2013 12:35 PM, Robin Panousieris wrote:
>
> The fact that there is no wood products or folios in Top Designs is
> totally disappointing, it is obvious to all.
>
> I thought twice about taking students (wood focused) but will be
> taking a group as I want them to see quality folios that address all
> the criteria in the new study design.
>
> My students have little appreciation for how the folio links together
> and why they have to do a 4 part evaluation criteria for the finished
> product and then a 3 part for the Product design process. They think
> I am a pain for insisting that they identify, using colour, the
> Product design factors in their design briefs etc. These are all
> significant changes that could also come up in the exam so I want them
> to understand this.
>
> My students need to see how other students have done this work and how
> the new parts of the folio look -- and it is different to previous
> years -- in some cases significantly different. What I don't want
> them to see are folios that use the previous study design or folios
> that don't cover all the criteria as that would just confuse them and
> as a teacher I then worry about them making mistakes on the exam
> because of the confusion.
>
> All the work is textiles except for a delicate set of silver jewellery
> but the value to the wood students is the folio this year. There is
> nothing we can do about the 2013 exhibition so I am hoping for a wood
> dominated exhibition next year ! Let's hope it works that way and
> more wood teachers put forward their students folios and products for
> selection.
>
> Robin Panousieris
>
> Assumption College Kilmore
>
> *From:*destech-bounces at edulists.com.au
> [mailto:destech-bounces at edulists.com.au] *On Behalf Of *Lorraine Tran
> *Sent:* Friday, 26 April 2013 9:26 PM
> *To:* Design and Technology Teachers' Mailing List
> *Subject:* Re: [Design and Technology] Top Designs
>
> *Colleagues,*
>
> *Perhaps discussion regarding the lack of representation of products
> that are constructed mainly from wood in 2013 Top Designs could
> revisit the criteria used by the Product Design and Technology
> Selection Panel (comprising Product Design and Technology teachers)
> and how the situation can be addressed during this year as students
> are working on their SATs to ensure the 2014 Top Designs exhibition
> will include wood products. *
>
> *CRITERIA*
>
> *Product Design and Technology, Food and Technology and Systems
> Engineering*
> Works are selected that
>
> * achieve an A+ or A.
> * meet the assessment criteria at a very high standard and in
> innovative, individual ways
> * are accompanied by an exemplary folio that meets the assessment
> criteria and demonstrates research and thorough development of ideas
> * present a range of materials and creative uses of those materials
> * demonstrate sound workshop practices
> * are suitable for public exhibition and will fit exhibition
> constraints including space and safe weight restrictions.
>
> http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Pages/excellenceawards/seasonofexcellence/index.aspx
>
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Paul <docca1 at hotmail.com
> <mailto:docca1 at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Well said Steve,
>
> The expectations of our students has clouded intelligent judgement....
> Most of us would still go to see work of a B or C standard...
>
>
> On 26/04/2013, at 9:48, Steve Catanzariti <stevec at sjc.vic.edu.au
> <mailto:stevec at sjc.vic.edu.au>> wrote:
>
> It is an absolute disgrace that there are no Product Design and
> Technology (wood) students work on display in 2013. It is a slap
> in the face to all high achieving students and their teachers who
> put in an extraordinary amount of time and effort only to be told
> that some aspects of the study design were not covered perfectly.
> In the Top designs application process, the work only needed to be
> of A+ standard. Nowhere does it say that all aspects of the work
> needed to be perfect. Many students who applied and then
> subsequently rejected, were devastated to be told that from the 80
> plus pages that they produced, there was 1 or 2 pages that weren't
> perfect. Is this the path PDT wood is taking? There should have
> been a showcase of work from all areas of the PDT domain or a
> least a better excuse to totally disregard work from our area.
>
> *From:*destech-bounces at edulists.com.au
> <mailto:destech-bounces at edulists.com.au>
> [mailto:destech-bounces at edulists.com.au] *On Behalf Of *Jon Hubbard
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 23 April 2013 3:14 PM
> *To:* destech at edulists.com.au <mailto:destech at edulists.com.au>
> *Subject:* [Design and Technology] Top Designs
>
> Dear Colleagues
>
> I took my Year 11 & 12 design tech wood students to top designs
> yesterday. Spent a lesson beforehand explaining to the students,
> what to look for etc. especially the year 11's, only to find that
> there were no wood folios. Have I been out of the country the last
> 12 months, not knowing that Product Design Technology Wood would
> not be represented? I know there were six textiles displays and
> loved the display of past students work and if you read their
> crits many of them explained the influence top design has had on
> their career and subject choices. Really the effort these students
> go to in producing a folio is remarkable and Top Designs is a
> fitting reward for them, even to enter. This was really
> disappointing, can anyone explain?
>
> Jon Hubbard Product Design & Technology
>
> Trinity College, Colac
>
> *Jon Hubbard*
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