Ensuring Success for your Students in GCSE D&T- Half day May

Date and Time

Start Date: 7th May 2025

Time: 09:30 - 13:30

Member Price: £125.00

Your Price: £149.00

Details

This half day online course is ideally suited to secondary school teachers teaching GCSE D&T. Whether you're new to teaching GCSE D&T or an experienced teacher looking to refine your approach, this session will equip you with the strategies and skills needed to plan, deliver, and monitor a successful GCSE D&T curriculum. 

Throughout the session, we will explore best practices, share valuable insights, and provide actionable advice to help you build a robust and engaging learning experience for your students.

Why Attend? 

• Understand GCSE Design and Technology Requirements 
• Develop a clear understanding of the requirements of GCSE Design and Technology*. 
• Investigate the structure, content and delivery methods of an effective Year 10 that combines practical knowledge, exam content and techniques and appropriate preparation for the NEA. 
• Plan for the Future 
• Strategies on how to prepare and guide students through their NEA and assess students effectively and giving them feedback and tracking progress towards their expected targets. 
• Techniques on how to support and encourage students to work independently within an iterative design process. 
• Collaborate and Share Ideas 
• Explore different approaches for effective delivery of the theoretical content including revision techniques with other D&T teachers, share successes, and find solutions that work for your students and school environment. 

What You’ll Gain: 

• A greater understanding of the requirements of GCSE Design and Technology*. 
• Be better equipped to plan and deliver an effective 2 year GCSE course. 
• Structed steps to plan and design a curriculum that is relevant to their own delivery of the subject 
• Confidence in supporting students NEA projects and teaching GCSE D&T to a wide range of student abilities. 

*This course will address the general requirements of GCSE Design and Technology, it is not specific to any particular Awarding Organisation. 

This is an online course. In order to achieve the greatest outcome, maximise engagement with our trainer and gain the desired skills from this course, we require you to have your camera switched on throughout the entire session. We encourage discussion and are more than happy to answer questions during the session. Please note, the trainer may kindly request delegates mute themselves for short periods of times throughout the training session.

Meet your Trainer

Paul Woodward – Curriculum Consultant

Paul has been teaching D&T for almost 30 years with most of those years as a Head of Creative Arts Faculties or as Head of D&T. Following a degree in 3D design, Paul initially trained for the Post 16 sector, so he has extensive experience of teaching A Level D&T, but he has taught the subject from KS2 onwards in a wide variety of schools ranging from Pupil Referral Units to Prestigious International Boarding schools. Paul’s MA is in Education specialising in Professional Development in Teaching and Learning which led to him working as a consultant, course designer and presenter for D&TA alongside his industry and teaching roles…

Read more about Paul

By booking your place on this online course you are committing to purchase by either credit/debit card, BACS or cheque. Once payment has been received, you will receive the link to the live online Zoom course.

Bookings for this course can be made right up until the date of the session, however, please be aware that late bookings may not be processed in time. We endeavour to process bookings promptly.

Please read our terms and conditions and our cancellation policy.

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