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Posts tagged with "Curriculum"

Delivering skills, often lacking, to the next generation of D&T teachers

24th August 2022

D&TA providing specialist training for SCITT trainees at Pioneers Partnership SCITT For 30 years I have taught in or led Design and Technology departments, and in the last few years, I have seen...

Written by: Paul Woodward

What’s the point of school?

10th September 2020

The title used for this D&T Practice Magazine editorial is also the title of an excellent book by Guy Claxton. This is a book that I read and re-read as a headteacher as I regularly sought to step...

Written by: Tony Ryan

Time to put the clocks back

28th January 2016

The National Curriculum subject D&T has presented controversy for the entire period of its existence.  Some might say that is good.  Others would say it is inevitable as its nature, purpose and co...

Written by: Graham Samuel

Marginalising Creativity

19th January 2016

Are you happy for creative subjects to be marginalised or removed from the curriculum? What are you thoughts?.. sign our petition

Written by: Debbie Woodbridge

Are you really teaching D&T?

4th August 2014

Are you really teaching D&T? Or are children getting a poorly conceived, watered down version of the subject, asks Gareth Pimley, lead primary consultant for the Design and Technology Associatio...

Written by: Gareth Pimley

Big Bangs and damp squibs

13th March 2014

Design and technology has been in the news a lot over the last couple of days - or should I say, design and technology should have been in the news a lot! First was the CBI report, 'Engineering our fu...

Written by: Richard Green