Supporting Textile Specialists to Deliver D&T GCSE Core Content
Date and Time
Start Date: 18th June 2025
Time: 15:45 - 17:45
Your Price: £175.00
Details
Live Digital Training, Zoom link will be Provided Via BoydCreate
This online course is for textiles specialists wanting to embrace the D&T GCSE but who feel less confident in some areas of the core content. Assumes some basic textiles knowledge but content is also of interest to non-specialists.
Course Content :
- Overview of learning in the D&T GCSE (England - all specifications) and links to KS3
- Creative activities that bring the core content to life in a way that's relevant to textiles
- Particular focus on learning linked to non-textiles materials and levers/mechanisms
- Ideas are suitable for a range of year groups to introduce learning or as revision activities
- Using a broader materials approach to support creativity & innovation in textiles
- Celebrating traditions & creativity of textiles whilst embracing new ideas
- Challenging perceptions & stereotypes about what textiles is & raising its profile
- Reinvigorate teaching & create a buzz about textiles
- 'One size fits all' schemes of learning aren’t provided but activities/projects are provided to illustrate ideas discussed
Course Outcomes:
- Identify how textiles fits into D&T GCSE in a way that retains its creativity & uniqueness
- Develop knowledge for D&T GCSE core content that teachers may be less confident with
- Develop a textiles curriculum from KS3 - 5 that embraces a broader materials approach
- Strategies that embrace textile traditions as well as encouraging innovation & change
Course Structure :
- 2 hour live online session plus at least 4 hrs self-directed learning activities
- Online session introduces the main ideas and the self-directed activities enable participants to create a personalised CPD programme focused to follow at their own pace
- Includes materials for hands-on activities during the online session
- Includes materials to support the self-directed learning activities and a product sample for use in the classroom (while stocks last only - first come first served basis)
- Course fee pays for one person to attend the live online session
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Address
BoydCreate - Live Digital,
Live Digital Training
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