Technology and Living (Refreshed)

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Curriculum Management, Planning and Leadership in Home Economics /

Technology and Living (Refreshed)

Technology Education Section, CDI

15 June 2017

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Basic Education Curriculum Guide (P1 – S3) (2002)

Curriculum Documents

Senior Secondary Curriculum Guide (2009)

Basic Education Curriculum Guide (P1 – P6) (2014)

Secondary Education

Curriculum Guide (2017)

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Technology Education Key Learning Area (TEKLA) Curriculum Guide

Curriculum Documents

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Technology Education Key Learning Area

(TEKLA)

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What is Technology?

TEKLA

Home Economics / Technology and Living

Technology is the purposeful application of knowledge,

skills and values & attitudes in using resources to create products or systems to meet human needs and wants.

Resources

Products

Systems

Human needs and wants

Technology influences and is influenced by the culture of people. It is part of our daily life and has impact on the

individual, family, society and the environment.

Culture

Daily life

Individual

Family

Society

Environment

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What is Technology Education?

TEKLA Home Economics /

Technology and Living

Technology Education is the entitlement of EVERY student

Learning

experiences

Time allocated

Technology Education is the learning of how human beings solve their daily problems and how to replicate and how the process could be replicated and transferred to solve new

problems that arise from time to time

Daily problems

New problems

Replicate and transfer

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Curriculum Aims of Technology Education

Technological Literacy

Technological Understanding

– Knowledge Contexts in Technology

Technological Capability

– Process in Technology

Technological Awareness

– Impact of Technology

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Central Curriculum of TE

Knowledge Contexts in technology

– understand the interdisciplinary nature of technological activities; the concepts, knowledge and processes of different technologies

Process in technology

– to identify needs, problems and opportunities;

communicate and evaluate solutions; and make informed decisions

Impact in technology

– be aware of the cultural and contextual dependence of developing technologies, and their impact on the

individual, family, society and environment

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Technology Education Curriculum Framework

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Learning Elements under Knowledge Contexts in Technology Education

Technology

&

Living Systems

&

Control Strategies

&

Management

Business Environments,

Operations &

Organizations Resources Management

Marketing Operations

&

Manufacturing

Tools &

Equipment

Production Process

Project Management Materials

&

Structures

Materials &

Resources

Material Processing

Structures &

Mechanisms Information &

Communication Technology

Computer Systems

Computer Networks

Programming Concepts

Concepts of System

Application of Systems

System Integration

Control &

Automation

Food & Nutrition

Food Preparation

& Processing

Fabric &

Clothing Construction

Fashion &

Dress Sense

Family Living Home Management &

Technology

Common Topics

Technology

& Society

Safety &

Health

Information Processing &

Presentation

Design &

Applications

Consumer Education 10

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8% of the Total Lesson Time for KS3 (220 hours)

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15% of the Total Lesson Time for KS3 (413 hours)

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Technology Education Curriculum in School

Broad and balanced

Coverage of knowledge contexts Variety of contexts

Variety of learning experiences

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Home Economics / Technology and Living

Family Living

Food &

Nutrition

Food Preparation &

Processing Fashion and

Dress Sense

Home Management

&

Technology Fabric &

Clothing

Construction Understand how

technology affects our lives and enhances the nurturing of quality people and quality

homes

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Position of HEc / TL in TEKLA

ICT M&S O&M S&M S&C T&L

Apply concepts and skills acquired in Computer Literacy

• Materials &

resources

• Materials processing

• Tools &

equipment

• Production process

• Project

management

• Business environment, operation &

organisation

• Resources management

• Marketing

• Concepts of system

• Food &

nutrition

• Food

preparation &

processing

• Fabric &

clothing

• Fashion &

dress sense

• Family living

• Home

management

& technology

• Structure &

mechanism

• Application of systems

• System integration

• Control &

automation

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Example of a Scheme of Work

Unit Core Extension

1 Introduction ^• What is HEc/TL?

• Modes of learning activities and assessment

• Good housekeeping of work area

• Safety precautions and regulations

2 Health and Health Concerns

What is Health • Relationship between physical, mental and social health

• Food pyramids and dietary goals for teenagers

• Food pyramids used around the world and for other age groups

• Eating habits Meal Planning (1) • Breakfast, one-dish meal, main course

• Food groups and food commodities

• Food preparation and cooking techniques and heat transference

• Food groups and food commodities

• Courses of meal, meal planning for people having malnutrition

• Food preparation techniques Meal Planning (2) • Family meals and meals for special occasions

• Meal pattern, macro nutrients, food commodities, dietary goals

• Food preparation and cook techniques, nutrition label, heat transfer

• Food spoilage

• Family meals

• Food commodities, dietary goals

• Food preparation techniques

• Food preservation, food experiments

• Food product development, food culture

Meal Planning (3) • Meals for people with special needs and individual requirements

• meal pattern, micro nutrients

• Food preparation and cooking techniques

• Retention of nutritional values

• Meals for people with special needs and celebration

• Food experiments

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Example of a Scheme of Work

Unit Core Extension

3 “Green Design”

Sustainable Textile Products

• Fashion design

• Clothing technology

• Fibres and fabrics

Being Fashionable ^• fashion design

Garment Making • Fashion design

Materials and Resources

• Care of materials and resources

• Safety issues

• Healthy environment

• Safety issues

4 Consumer Studies ^• Wise shopping

• Comparing products

• Rights and responsibilities of consumers

• Effects of advertisements

• Food trade

5 Family ^• Relationship with others

• Roles and responsibilities

• Social / eating habits and table manners

• Money management

• Types of family

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Example of a Unit Meal Planning III

Unit Plan

– Knowledge contexts

– Process (application of design cycle) – Impact

Teaching points and learning elements

– Subject based theories, concepts and skills – Application of knowledge and skills acquired

in other subjects

– Collaboration with other subjects

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Modes of Implementation of

Technology Education Curriculum in Schools

Subject-based learning

Aligning subjects/knowledge contexts Collaborative teaching of

subjects/knowledge context Theme-based learning

Life experiences of students

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Suggested Strategies (1) Subject Based

Home Economics (HEc) / Technology and Living (TL)

Computer Literacy

Design & Technology

……

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Suggested Strategies (2) Aligning Existing subjects

HEc / TL D&T CL

Management of resources

• utilization of resources in the family

• principles in

developing strategies for sustainable

development

• reuse and recycle of resources in the

home

Technology and society

• sustainable

development in the society

• recycle and reuse of resources

• impact of technological decisions

• Innovative

technological devices

Issues related to the use of IT

• recycling

• potential health hazards

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Suggested Strategies (3)

Collaboration among subjects

HEc / TL CL

Week 1 – 4 Food and Nutrition

• Dietary goals and food pyramids for different age groups

• Balance intake of nutrients

• Nutritive value of food commodities

Spreadsheet – e.g.

excel

Week 5 - 6 • Meal planning for adults with different needs

calculation and presentation of nutritive value of the

planned meals

compare the nutritive value of the planned meals with

recommended daily intake

Powerpoint presentation

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Suggested Strategies (3)

Collaboration among subjects

HEc / TL D&T CL

Week 1- 4 • Home Management

food and nutrition

• Needlework, Dress and Design

wardrobe planning

Problem solving models for

product making

• Design cycle

• Application of design cycle to a project

solution

• Realisation of the design

Webpage design

Week 7 - 10 • Application of design cycle:

food product development

fashion design

Application of problem solving models through designing a programme to solve a specified situation / problem

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Suggested Strategies (4) Theme-based Learning

HEc / TL D&T CL

S1 Week 1 – 20 Subject based learning

Week 21 - 24 TE Project – Decorating the School S2 Week 1 - 18 Subject based learning

Week 10 - 24 TE Project – Home Coming Gathering S3 Week 1- 16 Subject based learning

Week 17 - 24 TE Project – Fashion Show

Celebrating the School’s 25 ^th Anniversary

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Suggested Strategies (5) Life Experiences

HEc / TL

S1 My family • Family living

• Meal planning

• Family budgeting S2 Serving the school /

community

• Nutrition labelling

• Design and make S3 Preparing for further

studies / work

• Food product development

• Fashion design and trend setting

** Other Learning Experiences

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Ongoing Renewal of the School Curriculum

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Major Renewal Emphases

STEM education

• Principles

– Develop among students a solid knowledge based and enhance their interest in science, technology and mathematics

– Strengthen students’ ability to integrate and apply knowledge and skills – Nurture students’ creativity, collaboration and problem solving skills – Foster students’ innovation and entrepreneurial spirit

• Approaches

– Learning activities based on topic of Home Economics / Technology & Living

– Projects integrating relevant learning elements of different subjects / key learning areas

• Related topics

– Food and nutrition (e.g. dietary goals and eating habits, food groups)

– Food preparation & processing** (e.g. hygiene and safety, food preparation &

processing)

– Fabric construction **

– Home management & technology ** (e.g. food technology, energy saving devices)

** including experimental approach

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STEM Education - Suggested Theme

Green Living

• Students are asked to explore issues of green design, green technology and green enterprise in response to related environmental concerns with examples provided by different subjects

Green Living

Green Design

Green Technology Green

Enterprise

Fashion Design

Meal Planning Food

Product Development

Food Commodities

Fibres

& Fabrics

Energy Wise

Food Trade

Consumers ICT

M&S O&M

S&M S&C

Material World

Energy

&

Change

Sci, Tech, Society &

Environment

Data Handling

Measure.

Shape &

Space

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STEM Education - Suggested Project

• Design menu

• Design mobile application for

calculating calorie value

• Food research and development

Choice and use of material

process, tools

& equipment for relisation

of design solutions

Planning and organising

work in

steps Use of

computer network

Resources and marketing Dietary goals

and meal planning

Functional properties of

food and food tests Principles and

skills, hygienic and safe practices

in food preparation Food product

development

Food substances Food

pyramids

Collect and organise

data Construction

and interpretation

of statistical graphs

Science Education

Technology Education

Mathematics Education

A weekly menu for a school lunch box supplier

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Values education

• Nurture of technological awareness in developing

learners’ ability to make judgment and decisions through – choice of design (e.g. meal plan, food product,

fashion design) to meet specific needs

– choice of materials (e.g. food, fabric) for a specific design

– choice of process, tools, equipment to realise a design

Major Renewal Emphases

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Language across the curriculum (LaC)

• Collaboration with Chinese / English teachers to facilitate LaC, e.g.

– common topics between the HEc / TL and Chinese / English Language subjects

– text types typical of the HEc / TL (e.g. procedure / instructions) – HEc / TL specific language features and rhetorical functions (e.g.

providing reasons and explanations, stating causes and effects, comparing and contrasting, giving explanations)

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Major Renewal Emphases

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Holistic

Curriculum Development in the TE KLA

• Education trends

• School vision and mission

• Analysis of school context

• Students’ interests and abilities, and teachers’ expertise

Curriculum Emphases for

Technology Education Curriculum documents:

Secondary Education Curriculum Guide

Technology Education KLA Curriculum Guide

General Studies Curriculum Guide

Curriculum and Assessment

Guides for Technology Elective Subjects

at the Senior Secondary Level

Holistic

Curriculum Development Planning-Implementation-

Evaluation

Collaboration among teachers (within the TE KLA and across other KLAs, e.g.

planning STEM-related activities)

A school Technology Curriculum with Vertical

Continuity and Lateral Coherence

Smooth Learning Progression from One Key

Stage to Another

Resources

&

Support Learning and

teaching resources Community

resources School facilities &

support Research &

Development projects Professional development of school leaders and

teachers

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Holistic curriculum development

• Building of knowledge foundation in TEKLA

– Central curriculum vs technology curriculum in school

– Development of technological literacy through the three strands of TE: knowledge contexts in technology, process in technology and impact of technology

– Time allocation

» Junior secondary level: 8 – 15% of the total lesson time allocated to TE

• Cross-curricular learning

– Project learning and task-based activities with collaboration between technology subjects and subjects of other KLAs

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TEKLA Knowledge Contexts Reference Materials

Materials & Structure Operation & Manufacturing

Systems & Control

Strategies & Management Technology & Living

(1) Modules, e.g.

• Production Process

• Materials and Resources

• Tools and Equipment (2) Case study, e.g.

• Design process with ergonomic

• 3G: green design, green technology and green enterprise

(1) Theme-based resources, e.g.

• Be your own Financial Planner

• Organic farming at school

• Smart spending

• Start your own BIZ

• Superb business ideas (2) Modular-based resources, e.g.

• Nature of money

• Presentation of your consumption patterns

• Concepts of incomes, expenses and retained earnings

(1) e-Resources

• Meal planning

• Basic food science

• Principles of food processing and technology

(2) Food and textile tests, e.g.

• Emulsion, enzymatic browning

• Absorbency, abrasion (3) Booklets for TE knowledge

context – Technology & Living (4) Learning modules, e.g.

• Personal financial education

• Food technology and health

• Dress sense and appreciation of fashion

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Subjects of other KLAs – Junior Secondary

Science

– common acids and alkalines (everyday use - food preservation)

– a healthy body (food substances, balanced diet, natural and processed food)

Visual Arts

– visual elements, visual images

Life and Society

– personal and social development (healthy lifestyle and self-management, family life)

– resources and economic activities (managing finance and being your own master with money, rights and responsibilities of sensible consumer)

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Resources and Support

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Resources and Support

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Resources and Support

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Resources and Support

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Resources and Support

Consolidated Subject

Composite Furniture and Equipment Grant (CFEG)

One-off Grant to Secondary Schools

for the Promotion of STEM Education

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~Thank you~

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