Design and Technology Association

Three-day Intensive D&T Training For Non-Specialists July

Date and Time

Start Date: 29th July 2024

Time: 09:30 - 16:30

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 the three days, we will discuss 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.

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

Day 1 (29th July)

  • D&T in context
  • The National Curriculum for D&T
  • Key stages of education
  • Key content and learning: systems and processes
  • Working with materials: timbers, polymers and CAD

Day 2 (30th July)

  • Design thinking
  • Contextual approaches to design
  • Managing NEA and theory content at exam level
  • Working with materials: textiles, electronics and modelling materials

Day 3 (31st July)

  • Long, mid, and short-term curriculum planning
  • Progression in learning
  • Common processes, tools, and machinery
  • Systems & Control and CAM

Accommodation is not included in this price
You will find many hotels nearby to suit your budget. Premier Inn is within walking distance of the venue but you will find a variety of other hotels and guesthouses, in and around the town and local area.

Please bring a laptop with you for use on the courses.

Meet Your Trainer

Lol Conway – Curriculum Trainer

Lol has been a Design and Technology teacher for 12 years teaching students from years 7 to 13 in comprehensive secondary schools. She has been a Head of Department for 7 of those years and was a College/Pastoral Leader for 2. During her time as Head of Department she took a department that was struggling to a thriving and outstanding faculty within the school…

Read more about Lol

Before booking onto the course please read our terms and conditions and our cancellation policy.

Address

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

Prices include VAT at the appropriate rate where applicable.

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