Design and Technology Association

Hybrid D&T Training for Non Specialists

Date and Time

Start Date: 9th May 2024

Time: 15:30 - 17:30

Member Price: £517.00

Your Price: £690.00

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Details

This course is ideally suited to secondary teachers with limited experience teaching Design and Technology.
Over the course of four online sessions and one full day of face to face learning, we will discuss a variety of aspects of the subject, its context and purpose, key content and skills and how to plan, deliver and monitor a broad and balanced D&T curriculum for your school. 

The price shown includes all sessions online and face to face. The sessions will not be recorded so your attendance is requred on all sessions. No refunds are possible for non-attendance at any one of the sessions.

Course Objectives:

  • Understand the requirements of the National Curriculum acknowledging these are a starting point to a wider curriculum provision
  • Develop a vision for D&T in your school
  • Planning to ensure progression, stretch and challenge
  • How to successfully fit D&T into a crowded curriculum
  • Discover and plan for the required resources to support the delivery of your departments' curriculum
  • Ensure your curriculum is fit for future learning and employment
  • Gain confidence in the use and application of specialised processes

By the end of the course, delegates will:

  • Have a greater understanding of how D&T fits effectively within the school curriculum and the content that is required to deliver your curriculum
  • Acquire a knowledge of the design thinking that underpins the teaching of Design and Technology in the secondary school
  • Understand the key stages of secondary education and how to plan a 5 or 7 year D&T curriculum
  • Have greater confidence in their long-term plans and sequencing of lessons
  • Have a greater understanding of the D&T content and how to deliver a context-based design curriculum
  • Develop greater confidence in the use of CAD, CAM and visual communication
  • Experience working with a range of materials and processes

Online session 1 (9th May 3:30pm – 5:30pm)

  • D&T in context
  • The National Curriculum for D&T
  • Key stages of education
  • Key content and learning

Online session 2 (22nd May 3:30pm – 5:30pm)

  • 3D CAD
  • Tinkercad
  • Onshape

Online session 3 (6th June 3:30pm – 5:30pm)

  • Design thinking
  • Contextual approaches to design
  • Long, mid, and short-term curriculum planning

Face to face practical (12th June 9:30am – 4:30pm)

  • Working with materials: timbers, polymers and CAD
  • Working with materials: textiles, electronics and modelling materials
  • Systems & Control and CAM

Online session 4 (1st July 3:30pm – 5:30pm)

  • GCSE subject content (theory)
  • Managing the GCSE NEA
  • Course summary and Q&A

Address

The Design and Technology Association, 11 Manor Park
off Jugglers Close
Banbury
Oxfordshire
OX16 3TB

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