Three-day Intensive D&T Training For Non-Specialists October
Date and Time
Start Date: 6th October 2025
Time: 09:30 - 16:30
Member Price: £517.00
Your Price: £670.00
Details
Three Full-days, face to face course in Banbury
Empowering Non-Specialists: Delivering Outstanding Design & Technology
Are you a secondary teacher stepping into the world of Design & Technology with little or no prior experience? This three-day practical course is tailored just for you!
Join us to build your confidence and develop the skills you need to plan, deliver, and monitor an engaging and balanced D&T curriculum that meets your school’s needs.
What to Expect:
- Understand the Big Picture: Explore the purpose, context, and value of Design & Technology in modern education.
- Master Key Content and Skills: Learn the essential elements of D&T, from creative problem-solving to hands-on practical tasks.
- Plan for Success: Discuss a broad and balanced curriculum that aligns with your school’s goals while inspiring students.
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.
What You’ll Gain:
- 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.
- Confidence in their long-term plans and sequencing of lessons.
- Increased understanding of the D&T content and how to deliver a context-based design curriculum.
- Confidence in the use of CAD, CAM and visual communication.
- Experience of working with a range of materials and processes.
Day 1 - 23rd June 2025
- 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 - 24th June 2025
- Design thinking
- Contextual approaches to design
- Managing NEA and theory content at exam level
- Working with materials: textiles, electronics and modelling materials
Day 3 - 25th June 2025
- Long, mid, and short-term curriculum planning
- Progression in learning
- Common processes, tools, and machinery
- Systems & Control and CAM
What to Bring:
We recommend bringing a laptop or portable device for the session.
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
The Design and Technology Association, 11 Manor Park
off Jugglers Close
Banbury
Oxfordshire
OX16 3TB
Prices include VAT at the appropriate rate where applicable.
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