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Essential Manufacturing Skills: Mastering Textile Construction Techniques - November

Essential Manufacturing Skills: Mastering Textile Construction Techniques - November, An Essential Sewing & Making Skills Course for Teachers of GCSE & A Level Fashion & Textiles for both Art & Design and D&T. In Partnership with Design & Technology Association, this is a new course from the Textile Skills Centre hosted at D&TA Centre in Banbury and with support from Janome UK. This is a totally practical day learning and practicing a variety of sewing and making skills and threading and trouble shooting sewing machine faults. ...

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Secondary, Secondary Design and Technology builds on the skills and knowledge pupils have already learnt at primary school. It leverages increasingly sophisticated resources, including dedicated teaching environments, manufacturing equipment and specialist teaching. As students progress through this phase, they may be given the opportunity to focus on specific aspects of the subject such as product design, food technology, engineering, systems and control, electronics, textiles and graphics. However, at its core is creativity and imagination. Students learn to design and make products that solve genuine, relevant problems within different contexts whilst considering their own and others’ needs,...

Career Profile for teachers of Design and Technology: Subject Competencies

Career Profile for teachers of Design and Technology: Subject Competencies, Career Profile for teachers of Design and Technology: Subject Competencies First published 2017 The Career Profile for teachers of Design and Technology: Subject Competencies, has been developed to replace the Minimum Competencies for Trainees to Teach Design and Technology in Secondary Schools. Since 1995, revised versions of these competencies have been used by all those involved with Initial Teacher Education (ITE). They set out the skills, knowledge and understanding for...

Inspired by Industry: New Contexts

Inspired by Industry: New Contexts, We are excited to release three more contexts as part of our range of free resources for KS3. Have a look below: Lisi Aerospace Lisi Aerospace are a worldwide manufacturing specialist for assembly solutions as well as engine and structural components used in aircrafts. This context asks you to consider ‘Reducing weight without compromising strength’. JCB JCB are one of the world’s largest construction equipment manufacturers. Their brand is well known in the UK and overseas...

Masterclass with Seymourpowell - Sketching and Rendering in Concept Design

Masterclass with Seymourpowell - Sketching and Rendering in Concept Design, This inspiring masterclass has been developed in collaboration with Seymourpowell and The Design and Technology Association. Take a look at this video to learn moreAn exclusive session on 'Sketching & Rendering in Concept Design'. This e-learning masterclass will take D&T teachers through the process of concept design at Seymourpowell. With a focus on sketching and rendering, see how Dick Powell and Neil Baron produce ideas, their techniques when presenting ideas to clients, and how they move from paper to digital. You will pick up...

Stuart Dashwood at Prodrive

Stuart Dashwood at Prodrive, I have been a Design Technology teacher for a little over 12 years, unlike many design technology teachers, am not an engineer, I am an arts graduate, specifically I trained as a Jewellery designer, I have sometimes felt this leaves me at a disadvantage when I am trying to guide my students, to help them make the best choices for careers and next steps after school. I am constantly fascinated by the huge number of things I discover I don’t know, particularly about entry into engineering and how to...

GCSE Key Resources: Control Systems Teacher Training PowerPoints

GCSE Key Resources: Control Systems Teacher Training PowerPoints, D&T GCSE Resources Control Systems Teacher Training PowerPointsEnabling you to teach your students to build control technology into their designs Ages 14-16First published 2016This resource is aimed at supporting teachers to develop their subject knowledge in the area of control systems, in readiness for delivering the GCSE in Design and Technology. It forms part of a set of CPD resources aimed at modernising your design and technology curriculum at a time when there is a clear need for...

Designed for Life Newstead Wood School

New Designed for Life Episode: Building a Thriving Design & Technology Department at Newstead Wood School, How do you establish a thriving Design & Technology department from scratch with a brand-new team? What curriculum changes at KS3, KS4, and KS5 can truly stretch and challenge high-achieving students? And how can you transform the department’s look and function on a limited budget while improving perceptions of the subject among students and parents? In the latest episode of Designed for Life, we explore these crucial questions as...

Design and Technology Ambassadors

A network of Ambassadors drawn from government, industry, cultural institutions and education keen to champion and support Design and Technology and Engineering education., Design and Technology Ambassadors

Materials and their properties - Set of GCSE classroom teaching resources

Materials and their properties - Set of GCSE classroom teaching resources, Materials and their properties: Set of GCSE classroom teaching resources This pack is not available to purchase using curriculum credits. This item is a download Age 14-16 First published 2017 Materials areas covered: Metals Textiles Timbers Polymers Papers and Boards Materials and their properties introduction Classroom teaching resources for students, addressing the relevant content of all four Awarding organisations' Design and Technology GCSE specifications. This will also be useful to students enrolled...

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