Elements and Performance Criteria
- Research woodworking ideas and techniques
- Support professional practice by expanding own knowledge of historical and contemporary woodworking practice
- Research ways that other artists and designers have used different woodworking techniques
- Investigate how particular woodworking techniques achieve different technical effects
- Evaluate the relationships between woodworking techniques and ideas
- Adapt and use relevant ideas and approaches with consideration of intellectual property requirements
- Select woodworking techniques for refinement
- Determine safety requirements for woodwork
- Consolidate woodworking technique to professional level
- Develop increasing confidence and skill through practice and experimentation
- Proactively identify and resolve technical problems in woodworking projects based on developing expertise
- Challenge and test ideas, and allow new and unpredictable ideas to emerge
- Evolve ideas and other professional skills through ongoing experimentation with technique
- Develop own ways of working with techniques to create individual style
- Create a coherent body of woodwork that shows command of selected techniques
- Evaluate own woodworking technique
- Evaluate development of own technique with others and seek feedback
- Seek and participate in conversations that challenge and explore different ideas and approaches
- Reflect on ways that experimentation with different techniques has informed own work
- Identify ways in which technique may be further developed as part of a professional practice and build ideas into future work