Membership Support
Convert your Individual membership to Departmental membership
Many of our individual members are convincing their schools to invest in secondary Departmental membership from the school budget
This offers your school tremendous value, member support and invaluable engagement for your whole team and allows them to budget for resources, events and CPD at discounted rates. We are happy to help you with the conversion from individual to Departmental membership.
Importantly our new Design and Technology Self-Review Framework is really applicable to Departmental member schools as it assesses and evaluates your whole department to help you show your senior team the value of Design and Technology across the whole school and its curriculum.
Just give us a call on 01789 470007 or email membership@designtechnology.org.uk
Becoming a Secondary Design and Technology Teacher
Teacher education in England is administered by the Department for Education. It is a graduate profession so you must first have a degree then achieve qualified teacher status (QTS). In order to gain QTS, you need to complete an initial teacher training (ITT) course. There are a number of ITT routes to accommodate individual circumstances and backgrounds, and you can find more information about these from the Department for Education.
If you have a passion for Design and Technology and want to inspire the next generation with your skills, now is the time to train to be a Design and Technology teacher.
Please note that training to teach in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland varies slightly from training to teach in England.
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Design and Technology (D&T) is the inspiring, rigorous and practical subject which prepares all young people to live and work in the designed and made world.
We are focused on giving you the tools, knowledge and information you need to become more effective, more experienced and more efficient. Giving you access to expert opinions. And creating a place where you can air your views, ask your questions and so help make a difference to your life and those of your pupils. We want to hear from you. We want to know how we can help. And we want you to join us.
