Design and Technology Association

Designing an Exceptional D&T Curriculum with POAP - Full day

Date and Time

Start Date: 11th February 2025

Time: 09:30 - 16:30

Member Price: £199.00

Your Price: £270.00

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Details

Full-day, face to face course in London

A full day course, that will help you to develop your planning in D&T and create quality lessons and units. You will cover how to contextualise learning and develop rich opportunities for your pupils. The session will additionally highlight best practices, using acclaimed D&T planning resource 'Projects on a Page'.  There are 21 planners that cover Food and Nutrition, Textiles, Structures, Mechanisms, Electronics and Programming and Control. It is a flexible scheme of work for D&T that helps schools to deliver a breath of excellent primary design and technology.

Course objectives:

  • Understand how Projects on a Page can be used to tailor D&T at your primary school and to best meet the needs of your pupils
  • Understand how to contextualise learning and develop rich opportunities for pupils, avoiding a ‘making by numbers’ approach of D&T teaching
  • Gain skills in using Projects on a Page to plan your curriculum, add context and plan a sequence of lessons
  • Share ideas to make projects and lessons engaging, and to ensure coverage of the 6 D&T Principles
  • Break down the contents of one or more POAP units, then engage in hands-on examples and develop practical skills

By participating in this course, you will learn how to:

  • Use Projects on a Page as a planning tool
  • Use Projects on a Page to develop a sequence of lessons
  • Learn how POAP can address the key design skills of design, make, and evaluate
  • Ensure content coverage and progression through the key stages
  • Contextualise learning
  • Ensure the D&T ‘key content’ is being delivered
  • Plan engaging lessons with a variety of learning opportunities
  • Create practical outcomes using Projects on a Page templates
  • Create a sequence of lessons following the templates

You are advised to bring a laptop/portable device with you. 

Meet your Trainer

Lol Conway – Curriculum Consultant 

Lol was a Design and Technology teacher for 14 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.

Lol has also worked as a Primary Teacher setting up and delivering EYFS, KS1 and KS2 Design and Technology in her school and developing a Curriculum Pathway for the subject so as to create an effective through Curriculum into KS3 and beyond. 

Read more about Lol

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

 

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London TBC,
London

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