Design and Technology Association

Three-day Intensive D&T Training For Non-Specialists

Date and Time

Start Date: 24th March 2025

Time: 09:30 - 16:30

Member Price: £517.00

Your Price: £690.00

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Details

This course is ideally suited to secondary teachers with limited experience teaching design and technology.

Over the course of the three days, we will discuss aspects of the subject, its context and purpose, key content and skills and how to plan, deliver and monitor a broad and balanced D&T curriculum for your school.

Course Objectives:
  • Understand the requirements of the National Curriculum acknowledging these are a starting point to a wider curriculum provision
  • Develop a vision for D&T in your school
  • Planning to ensure progression, stretch and challenge
  • How to successfully fit D&T into a crowded curriculum
  • Discover and plan for the required resources to support the delivery of your departments' curriculum
  • Ensure your curriculum is fit for future learning and employment
  • Gain confidence in the use and application of specialised processes

By the end of the course, delegates will:

  • Have a greater understanding of how D&T fits effectively within the school curriculum and the content that is required to deliver your curriculum
  • Acquire a knowledge of the design thinking that underpins the teaching of Design and Technology in the secondary school
  • Understand the key stages of secondary education and how to plan a 5 or 7 year D&T curriculum
  • Have greater confidence in their long-term plans and sequencing of lessons
  • Have a greater understanding of the D&T content and how to deliver a context-based design curriculum
  • Develop greater confidence in the use of CAD, CAM and visual communication
  • Experience working with a range of materials and processes

Day 1

  • D&T in context
  • The National Curriculum for D&T
  • Key stages of education
  • Key content and learning: systems and processes
  • Working with materials: timbers, polymers and CAD

 Day 2

  • Design thinking
  • Contextual approaches to design
  • Managing NEA and theory content at exam level
  • Working with materials: textiles, electronics and modelling materials

 Day 3

  • Long, mid, and short-term curriculum planning
  • Progression in learning
  • Common processes, tools, and machinery
  • Systems & Control and CAM

Please bring a laptop with for the course.

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

Address

The Design and Technology Association, 11 Manor Park
off Jugglers Close
Banbury
Oxfordshire
OX16 3TB

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