Mastering Higher-level Food Skills at KS4

Description

Welcome to Mastering Higher-level Food Skills at KS4.

About this training

This course is designed to enhance your own food skills, so that when you are teaching Key Stage 4 food, you are imparting food skills with greater accuracy and precision. In addition, you will have identified those food skills (and recipes) which will help pupils achieve higher. (Always consult your Awarding Organisation.)

• This course has been created to provide training and support for those teaching food at Key Stage 4. Higher-level food skills are desired for practical work at GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition, Hospitality & Catering L1/2 and NCFE Food and Cookery.

• It comprises instructional cooking videos, demonstrating a series of higher-level food skills – which will help achieve higher marks.

• Recipes are provided, as well as presentations to support each ‘food’ area.

• Audit and planning tools as provided, as well as links to further information and videos.

Who provides the training?

The higher-level food skills are demonstrated by Simon Gray, Food Teachers Centre Senior Associate. He has over 30 years experience in craft and management within the Hospitality and Catering industry, and has been a food teacher. The course is also written by Roy Ballam, former British Nutrition Foundation (BNF) Managing Director and Head of Education, who has been involved in numerous education and curriculum development projects in the UK, Europe and around the world. Like Simon, he was also a secondary school food teacher.

Training outcomes

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Work through the course at your own pace. Complete sections over time, allowing you time to practice food skills, recipes and presentation techniques in the kitchen.

• Audit your food skills.

• Watch the instructional video. Use the note sheet to help recall key points.

• Review what you’ve done and set goals.

• Print the recipe and ‘have a go’ – focus on your food skills and presentation techniques.

• Use the resources and learning in the classroom.

Why this course is useful

• It supports your professional planning – especially related to pupil learning and examination success.

• It enhances your ability to teach higher-level food skills, which will impact on pupil experience and outcomes.

•It provides practical tips and assessment resources that can be used directly in the classroom to support your teaching.

• The package comprises online training, which can be taken at any time (and is available for access in the future), plus it provides lots of relevant resources which can be used directly in the classroom and save you time. A certificate is provided on completion.

• It is extremely cost effective – proving professional development training, templates to use in your planning and management, and teaching materials to use with pupils.

• It forms part of your professional development plan, focusing on high quality teaching and learning.

• It is provided by the Food Teachers Centre – a trusted source of information, support and training nationally – actively used by over 9,100+ teachers.

What training standards are met?

No1. Developing professional competence

No.5 Teaching food preparation and cooking

Standards are from the government framework: Food teaching in secondary schools: A framework of knowledge and skills