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Chess meets classic design in innovative D&T classroom project, To celebrate World Chess Day, two design and technology teachers are sharing a student project that brings timeless design to the forefront using chess as the medium for creative exploration. Originally developed by Owen Gilbert (Head of Design & Technology at Dubai College) and Padraig Gaughan (Head of Design Emerging Technologies at GEMS Dubai American Academy) while teaching together at Repton Dubai, the project continues to be run independently by both teachers in their current schools. The pair are using the opportunity to showcase the work and...
Founder of Hemingway Design, Wayne Hemingway, MBE, Wayne was born in 1961 and grew up in Morecambe, a typical British seaside town. Perhaps not the most appropriate surroundings for one of Britain's most acclaimed designers. After spending most of his childhood in Blackburn, a young and multicultural Hemingway left school with ten O-Levels and four A-Levels. In 1979 he made another inappropriate decision for a future designer and gained a degree in Geography and Town Planning at University College, London. Alongside his wife Gerardine, Wayne built Red or Dead into a...
Seeing D&T come alive through the Teachers in Residence programme - Susana del Castillo at PriestmanGoode, Discovering the opportunity My name is Susana del Castillo, and I’m the subject leader for D&T at St Paul’s Way School in Tower Hamlets. While looking for opportunities and resources for my students through the Design & Technology Association, I came across the Teachers in Residence programme. The placement at PriestmanGoode immediately caught my attention, as I wanted to experience real industry practice in action and this seemed perfect. Learning from industry practice I was eager to...
Head of Design Engineering, Jon Taylor, Jon Taylor is Head of Design Engineering with 15+ years’ experience, leading innovative technical curriculums in top independent schools. A Brunel graduate in Industrial Design, he bridges theory and practice, delivering high-achieving GCSE and A Level outcomes. An OFQUAL subject expert and VEX Robotics Teacher of the Year, Jon shapes national assessment standards while mentoring students to compete successfully at UK and World Championship levels. Location: Guildford, Surrey D&T Hub School: Cranleigh
Blueprint 1000®, The initiative engages industry partners, who are keen to actively connect with schools and play a major part in offering high quality teacher CPD and ongoing real-world support, for teachers and pupils. The aim, in connecting industry with education, is to help contextualise and further your subject-knowledge to ensure lessons are relevant and up-to-date for your students as they leave education and enter the workplace. Ultimately, we will be working with teachers, pupils and industry to build an inspiring, innovative and proficient workforce by supporting design and technology education in our schools and colleges....
Matt Sedgley, Matt Sedgley is fully qualified through the Design and Technology Association as a Registered Design and Technology Health and Safety Consultant to run a comprehensive range of training courses working to BS4163:2021 Standards. Since qualifying in 2007 he has taught Design and Technology in a variety of educational settings, including ITT and intervention in departments requiring improvement. He has also spent time in industry where he became a manufacturer of products such as 3D Printers. Matt has also advised on the creation of Fab Lab style makerspaces for high profile multinational...
Sketching and Rendering in Concept Design Masterclass, Donna Isaac, a teacher from Wallingford School in Oxford shares her experience with the Sketching and Rendering Masterclass offered by Seymourpowell in collaboration with The Design & Technology Association. This 'Sketching & Rendering in Concept Design' Masterclass, takes D&T teachers through the process of concept design at Seymourpowell. Motivation Donna's decision to enrol was driven by a desire to strengthen her team's skills and confidence in sketching and utilising diverse materials. The school's funding for INSET provided a unique opportunity to invest in this...
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Designing 128 Online PDF, Designing 128 Summer 2024 Designing magazine is a showcase for excellence in design across all phases of education, from primary schools to universities, and in commercial and industrial design. Its regular features include interviews with top designers in product design, architecture, engineering, fashion design, food, etc and includes examples of the best work taking place in schools in the UK and across the world. Designing is an inspiration to all budding designers, as well as being informative and challenging in the ideas it includes. Designing is delivered to Design and Technology...
Design Waves pack of six, Design Waves A series of teaching resources exploring influential design movements and the context in which they emerged. First Published 2016 Ages 14-18 This set of six PowerPoint based resources is intended to provide KS4/5 students with a background knowledge of different design movements, the context and conditions from which they emerged, examples of their output and the influences they have had upon other designers and movements in the 20th and 21st Centuries. Some of the movements are more closely aligned with the arts but have nevertheless had...
Latest Issue of DATE Journal Now Available!, The Design & Technology Association is pleased to share the release of the final issue of Volume 30 (2025) of Design and Technology Education: An International Journal. This issue includes ten articles from international researchers and educators, including the introduction of a new Journal category: literature reviews. Research materials, including decades of published papers, are available through the Liverpool John Moores University Open Access Data Repository. In this issue: The way Technology Teachers Think: The Role of Metaphor and Reflection for...
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