Design and Technology Association

Embedding Contextual NEA Skills into KS3 - Full day November

Date and Time

Start Date: 21st November 2024

Time: 09:30 - 16:30

Member Price: £199.00

Your Price: £270.00

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Details

This full-day course, working with contexts is key in Design and Technology yet can provide challenges for teachers and students. This 1-day face to face course explores the freedom and opportunities open to students when working from contexts within Design and Technology and is an opportunity to discover and embed key strategies for developing the skill set required by students in KS3 before embarking on their GCSE live contextual challenge.

Course objectives:  

  • Investigation of techniques and stimuli to encourage design creativity and innovation
  • Access to, and exploration of, a toolkit of suggested approaches to deliver D&T with a user-centred approach
  • Discussion and advice around the implementation of contextual designing to help with the Non-Examined Assessment for GCSE
  • Analysing contexts
  • Non-linear approaches to design
  • Linking to the NEA

By participating in this course, you will:  

  • Be able to engage in activities designed to support your own delivery methods
  • Understand how to embed contexts into your current curriculum
  • Have greater confidence on how to change to ensure a user-centred approach
  • Gain case-studies to use in teaching and development
  • Be able to ensure that the D&T curriculum works towards developing skills and attributes required for success in the NEA
  • Also engage in activities designed to support their own delivery methods in the classroom
  • Live contextual challenges will not be discussed on this course in line with Awarding Organisations regulations.

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 the course please read our terms and conditions and our cancellation policy.

Address

Millennium Point, Curzon Street
Birmingham
West Midlands
B4 7XG

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