1. Food Teacher Professional Portfolio
Food teaching for the less experienced
Saturday 13 May 2017
Add a poll to the screen:
Role in school
Key stages taught
Subjects taught
Have you got a food background? If not, please tell us what your previous specialism was.

2. Managing Practical Lessons

3. Previously in this programme
Webinar – ‘Teaching food when you are not a specialist’ (15th Nov)
Webinar – ‘Managing a food department’ (10th Jan)
Webinar ‘Teaching strategies during a practical lesson’ (25th April)
Webinar recordings can be found here:
Teach Food Technology – videos

4. Group activity 1 – Common scenarios
Getting started quickly
Making demonstrations memorable
Breaking down the recipe into steps and managing skills learning at pace
Clearing up and managing the end of the lesson positively
Integrating theory and practice

5. Practical! Top tips Choose recipes that are proven
Practice the recipe beforehand
Develop independence (use images and step by step, set homework)
Think ahead – the organisation of the lesson

6. Group activity 2 – Cooking
What are the key success points (skills and techniques)?
How will you teach this? – stop and explain, reminder on board, demo/spot demo, break it down, overemphasise, set to music, mnemonic, make someone responsible for monitoring (Technician, teacher, pupil).
How do you break the lesson into bite size pieces, but with flow?
What can you set up in advance of the lesson to make it more successful? – Setting out the room, grouping the pupils…

7. Suggested resources
Food Teachers Centre Resource Bank of shared resources developed by current teachers, and using websites such as Food a Fact of Life (particularly their scheme of work) and Licence to Cook.
Teach Food Technology Videos

8. Break-time pledge and help
In your table group, pick one area that you really would like some help with and write it clearly on a large sheet of paper.
At break time, visit another group’s sheet and add some ideas to help them.