Sally Cameron – Health and Technology

This video shares some of the techniques we use to motivate and support the progressive, fast-paced learning of all pupils in Health and Technology.  Fifty minutes is not a long time to welcome students, share learning targets and success criteria, deliver teacher led demonstrations of key skills, reinforce points of health and safety, support pupils through a practical task whilst still ensuring there still time for peer and self-evaluation, never mind the most important task of tasting your creation! You get a real sense of this in the video as you see an early S1 class making healthy pizzas.

This all requires careful and methodical lesson planning and we adopt a model of teaching that puts the learner firmly in the driving seat as they are motivated to take full responsibility for their own learning. You see examples of this in the video e.g. the labels inside the cupboards which encourages pupils to take responsibility for checking their own unit at the end of lessons.

We try to ensure there is an element of personalisation and choice in every practical lesson together with an element of differentiation and challenge to ensure that all pupils can achieve a successful outcome whilst stretching the most able. In this lesson the pupils choose their own bread base for their pizza from a small selection then choose and prepare their own unique pizza topping from a variety of healthy ingredients.