Online Illuminate Technology Food & Agricultural Practices Year 7 & 8 Course

Description

This course will provide you with everything you need to teach Stage 4 Food and Agricultural Practices.

The Illuminate course will soon be available for an online learning experience, giving you complete flexibility to learn at your own pace while gaining the full suite of classroom-ready resources.

In this course, you’ll be taken through each of the included resources and ready-to-use materials designed to help you deliver syllabus content in a fun, engaging, and practical way.

From recipes and hands-on activities to student workbooks, assessment tasks, design folios,  marking criteria, and full units of work, you’ll gain access to everything you need, along with step-by-step guidance to support your planning and classroom delivery.

Boost engagement in your Technology lessons with hands-on, exciting tasks that spark your students’ curiosity and creativity with real-world design briefs. This course has been carefully designed to align with syllabus outcomes and dot points, giving students a meaningful introduction to key concepts in Food Technology. Through practical, real-world tasks, students gain a taste of what the subject has to offer in later years, building foundational skills while sparking interest in further study in Stage 5 and beyond.

We unpack the latest syllabus changes so you can head back to the classroom feeling confident, prepared, and totally in control.

Teaching Resources Included:

• Annotated Syllabus
• 2 x Units of work
• 2 x Recipe booklets
• 2 x Student work-booklets
• 2 x Student design folios/ assessment tasks
• Segmented Marking criteria- mark as little or as much as you like.
• Additional PowerPoints to aid teaching the content
• Engaging activity ideas
• Illuminate Course PowerPoint presentation to re-visit at any time
• TPD’s support if you need any assistance after the course

Audience

Technology teachers looking for new resources, strategies and ideas to teach students in Year 7 and 8. This course has been designed around the NSW 7-8 Technology syllabus Food and Agricultural Practices content due for implementation from 2026. It has also been adapted so that it may be used in any other state in Australia who teaches using the Design and Technologies – Year 7 and 8 V9 Australian Curriculum under the Technologies Context: Food and Fibre production, and Technologies Context: Food Specialisations.

Teaching Standards

2.1.2 Proficient Level – Apply knowledge of the content and teaching strategies of the teaching area to develop engaging teaching activities.

6.2.2 Proficient Level – Participate in learning to update knowledge and practice, targeted to professional needs and school and/or system

Completing Illuminate Technology Food and Agricultural Practices will contribute 4 hours of Elective PD addressing 2.1.2 and 6.2.2 from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers.

Meet the trainer:  Carly Middleton ~ The Happiness Mission

Carly Middleton has a background in teaching Food Technology to third year education students at the University of Newcastle in the School of Education. Carly has been a Food Technology teacher since 2003 and has trained over 3,000 teachers at Teacher Professional Development. She’s no stranger to the classroom! Carly thrives on educating dynamic and passionate teachers and is a published author in Food Education and Food Technology in School Curricula- International Perspectives. She will provide you with tips and strategies to engage your students in studying the syllabus.

Licence Information

If you need to purchase an Additional Licence or Faculty Licence, you can do so HERE

When you enrol into this course, you receive a single-user licence to access and use the provided resources. This licence is allocated to you personally and may not be shared with other staff members, in line with the Copyright Act and our resource licensing policy.

If another teacher at your school will also be using the resources, you can purchase an Additional Licence for $297 (one-off fee), which allows one extra named user to access and use the materials.

If multiple teachers in your school (for example, the whole TAS faculty) will be using the resources, you can instead purchase a Faculty Licence for a one-off fee of $629, which covers all TAS staff at your school.

You need to have attended the course to be eligible to purchase additional or faculty licences.

Please note that sharing, reproducing, redistributing, or posting any resources without the appropriate licence is a breach of copyright and intellectual property rights.

Order extra licences HERE.