Tech comments

You might find these report card comments useful for writing comments for your tech report cards.

• He can discuss ideas as they develop e.g. say what his design has to do, suggest how his ideas can be achieved.

• He can select appropriate tools, techniques and materials and explain his choices.

• He can practice joining wheels and axles to allow movement.

• He can recognize what he has done well as work progresses and suggest things he can do in future.

• He can generate ideas and plan what to do next, based on his experience of working with materials and components.

• He can use models, pictures and words to describe his design.

• He can select appropriate tools, techniques and materials, explaining his choices.

• He can use tools and assemble, join and combine materials and components in a variety of ways.

• He can recognize what he has done well as his work progresses, and suggest things he could do better in the future.

• He enjoys the practical aspects of Technology and has produced some successful models.

• He enjoys the practical nature of Technology.

• He approaches Technology with great enthusiasm.

• He enjoys Technology but needs to develop confidence in his own ability to design original ideas.

• He does not enjoy designing and making and approaches his work with little enthusiasm.

• He uses his imagination and experience to think of designs and enjoys making models.

• He thinks of designs based on his own experience and imagination.

• He has very good intentions but sometimes finds it difficult to present and develop these.

• He finds it difficult to think of objectives and to produce designs and models.

• He has some good imaginative ideas but sometimes finds it difficult to apply these in a practical manner.

• He often has difficulty generating ideas of things to make.

• He is beginning to generate his own ideas and to say what he wants to do. He has started to use some tools and materials, and with encouragement can talk about his own work.

• He is able to generate his own ideas and uses pictures and words to describe what he wants to do.  He can explain what he is making and which tools he is using. He uses tools and materials with help, and can talk about his own and other people’s work describing how it works.

• He is able to generate ideas and plans what to do next, based on his experience of working with materials and components. He uses models, pictures and words to describe his designs and is able to select appropriate tools, techniques and materials, explaining his choices. He recognizes what he has done well as his work progresses, and suggests things he could do better in the future.

• He is able to generate ideas and can make realistic plans for achieving his aims. He uses tools and equipment with some accuracy to cut and shape materials, and to put together components. He identifies where evaluation of the design and make process has led to improvements in the product.

• He needs to think more carefully about the practical aspects of his designs and the materials available.
• He needs to use his own imagination and experience when designing his models.

• He must try not to be discouraged when his work does not turn out as he had planned.

• He needs to spend more time planning his designs.

• He needs to begin to consider the strengths and weaknesses of his designs and to make suggestions as to how they could be improved.

• He needs to widen the range of tools, materials and components he uses.

• He should begin to evaluate his work, considering how his designs could be improved.

• He should concentrate on using tools with more accuracy and precision.

• As a next step he could consider how he could improve the finished appearance of his work.