 2008 D&T Excellence Awards
Established in 1999 the awards celebrate those across all areas of D&T who have contributed to the subject and supported learning.
 On Friday 7 March the prestigious Ninth Annual Design and Technology Association Awards for teachers and trainers who have made outstanding contributions to D&T education were held at the Royal Society in London.
Over 100 guests attended the event at which the 26 winners from across the country were presented with their awards by the BBCÂ’s Technology Correspondent, Rory Cellan-Jones.
The highly-prized awards give professional recognition to individuals nominated by their colleagues for their unique work in design and technology education across 6 different categories.
Category 1:
Outstanding Contribution to Design and Technology Education
This is the highest professional award made by the Design and Technology Association. The persons being nominated can come from any part of the subject area, including schools, advisory, lecturing, teaching, research, curriculum development, management and administration to industry and suppliers. To be given this award, a person will need to have given service over a long period of time and made an outstanding contribution, showing commitment and leadership.
  
Winners : Ed Gillett, Rowland Penfold, Bob Welch
Category 2:
Subject Teacher Training Design and Technology
This award is for lecturers, advisors, inspectors, consultants or teachers for their service to training teachers. The category covers both in-service and initial teacher training. This award will be for high quality work in this field over a significant period of time that has helped teachers' understanding and given confidence to teachers over a significant period of time.
  
Winners : Gilly Browning, Alan Fowler, Su Garlick
Category 3:
Subject Leadership Design and Technology
This is award is for subject leadership in school. It covers all phases and awards those who have made a significant contribution over a period of time in developing design and technology in their school and have established high standards of performance from pupils in their care. Those obtaining this award will need to have displayed outstanding management skills and be excellent at promoting the subject in school and the local area.
 
Winners : Deirdre Dorrian, Rebecca Higgins,
 
Ceri Morgan, Cathryn Saunders
Category 4:
Outstanding Teacher Design and Technology
This award is granted to teachers who have displayed outstanding capability in teaching design and technology over a period of time. They may be a Co-ordinator or Head of Department, or those not holding such positions but consistently displaying outstanding practice in teaching design and technology. This will not only include teaching in timetabled lessons, but also those who have displayed high quality extra-curriculum activities.
 
Winners : Sue Farrant, Karen Revill,
 
Jane Walls, Sarah Wilson
Category 4a:
The IED Design and Technology Award for Post-16 Teaching
The Institute of Engineering Designers, the professional body for Engineering and Product Designers, sponsors this new award for 2006. This award is for an outstanding contribution to design and technology education in the Post-16 sector. This award is granted to those with consistently outstanding capability over a period of time. This may include extra-curricular activities as well as timetabled lessons.
 
Winners : Kevin Abel, Jeremy Twyman
Category 4b:
The BMES Sponsored Design and Technology Award
 
Winners : Heidi Brodie, Maggie Wood
Category 5:
Outstanding Newcomer to Design and Technology
This award is granted to students nearing the completion of their training or to teachers in their first two years of teaching. They will need to have shown outstanding ability in their training and display the capacity to be an outstanding teacher.
 
Winners : Edward Charlwood, Darren Cluney,
 
Laura Green, Avril Kavanagh
Category 6:
Exceptional Support for Design and Technology
This award is for a classroom assistant, teaching assistant or technician, whose support for the subject has been exceptional. Generally, the support will have been given consistently over a period of time and made a significant impact on pupils' learning, either directly through classroom/workshop support or through support to teaching staff.
  
Winners : Trevor Bowers, Heather Paul, Peter Taylor
The Dyson Design and Technology Teacher of the Year
Winner : Alan Neill
The D&T Association is grateful to all winners and referees for their participation which makes this such a rewarding and enjoyable event and to the sponsors, The James Dyson Foundation, The Institution of Engineering Designers, Meat and Education, Boxford, DCSF, Rolls-Royce, Jaguar, Land Rover, TTS Group, Technology Supplies Ltd and Ripley St Thomas Church of England High School for their valued support.
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