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Textiles Early KS3 Year 7 - Technology in Society – Wider Use in Today's Society

Textiles Early KS3 Year 7 - Technology in Society – Wider Use in Today's Society, Textiles Early KS3 Year 7 - Technology in Society – Wider Use in Today's SocietyThis unit is concerned with understanding the range and applications of textiles, including technical textiles. It aims to stretch students’ understanding o textiles applications and the products that result. Designing and making for users may be an appropriate additional task once full understanding is gained.This updated set of Key Resources for Product Design has been fully refreshed

Inspiring innovation – intellectual property in design

Inspiring innovation – intellectual property in design, The Association has been working with the Intellectual Property Office to develop this set of free resources helping teachers and students to understand the implications of IP in product design. The resources consist of five PowerPoint classroom teaching presentations and associated materials that schools can use and adapt, in which the students develop their ideas and realise the importance of securing the intellectual property. These can be used as a kit...

Quick Step: New Head of Dept Survival Guide

Quick Step: New Head of Dept Survival Guide, This guide is aimed at new HoDs and looks at a number of things that are bound to crop up in your first year. It looks at the role and challenges you are likely to encounter, addressing such things as: leadership and management, communication, department meetings, people management, your team, planning, moving forward, supporting staff and celebrating your department. It is divided into the first term in which you will need to get to grips with budgets,...

Support our mission to save D&T

Support our mission to save D&T, It is a sad fact that if you are teaching design and technology at the moment, you are teaching a subject in a state of national decline. At a time when our subject is arguably more relevant than ever, we have the lowest number of students ever recorded sitting the subject at both GCSE and A-Level; we have less than half the number of D&T-trained teachers that were serving in 2009, and an increasing number of schools are no longer offering...

In conversation with WMG Academy

Head of Faculty for Engineering and Design, Andrew Kyprianou, Designed for Life podcast brought to you by The Design and Technology Association in partnership with The Edge Foundation and PTC Onshape. Listen Here This podcast offers something a little different as we talk to staff and alumni students from WMG Academy for Young Engineers, a UTC situated in Coventry. For those unfamiliar, UTCs or 'University Technical Colleges' to give them their full title are government-funded schools with a heavy STEM curriculum focus. The...

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The Design & Technology Association – Privacy Policy , The Design and Technology Association – Privacy Policy In compliance with UK and European data protection regulations, including GDPR, this privacy policy explains what personal information we collect from you when you visit our website or are a recipient of our services. The Design and Technology Association is committed to processing personal information about its customers in ways that comply with its legal and regulatory obligations, and to...

Textiles Late KS3 Yr 9 Design and Make - Festival Headgear

Textiles Late KS3 Yr 9 Design and Make - Festival Headgear, Textiles Late KS3 Yr 9 Design and Make - Festival HeadgearProgressing from earlier units this covers design specifications and generating and adapting design ideas to changing circumstances. It covers evaluation and testing as well as considering the role of the circular economy in developing a final product.This updated set of Key Resources for Product Design has been fully refreshed and new titles added, providing teachers of Years 7, 8 and 9 with...

Textiles Mid KS3 Year 8 Design and Make - Textile Entrepreneurs

Textiles Mid KS3 Year 8 Design and Make - Textile Entrepreneurs, Textiles Mid KS3 Year 8 - Design and Make - Textile EntrepreneursThis looks at a range of textiles manufacturing techniques considering different properties of materials. It covers design briefs, context and design strategies, use of tools and equipment, the cost incurred in producing a product and final testingThis updated set of Key Resources for Product Design has been fully refreshed and new titles added, providing teachers of Years 7, 8 and 9 with a...

Matt McLain

Matt McLain, Matt is teacher educator at Liverpool John Moores University, where he leads secondary initial teacher education, having led the design and technology postgraduate route beforehand. Before becoming a teacher educator, he taught design and technology in the Greater Merseyside area for eleven years, as a subject leader, lead practitioner and advanced skills teacher; working with teachers at a local and national level. Matt has been an active member of the Design and Technology Association since joining in the 1990s. Recently he...

Nick Rose

Nick Rose, I have worked in Design and Technology for 33 years as a teacher, advisory teacher, CAD trainer and consultant. I am passionate about the subject now and going forward. I understand the challenges facing the subject in the new curriculum and my experience at senior leader level in schools helps me advise schools on dealing with these changes. As an advisory teacher I was involved in all aspects of progressing the subject and in particular raising

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