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STEM Careers resources Goldsmith

STEM Careers resources Goldsmith, Age 11-14 years This resource provides a design task that focuses on individual work to highlight career opportunities within jewellery design and making. The aim is to raise awareness of career opportunities for designer makers with an opportunity for students to explore a typical career path through experience of a particular designing activity. The resource and designing activity is build around a case study of a typical designer maker with an interesting background and career path. A PowerPoint presentation shows her work together with an analysis of the positives

Reimagining D&T

Reimagining D&T, See our actions to date and our proposals moving forward to ensure the survival of Design and Technology in schools via this PowerPoint. Design and technology in schools is in a state of national neglect. In 2003 we had 430,000 GCSE entries and over 20,000 at A Level. Now 78,000 and just over 10,000. In 2009 we had 14,800 trained and qualified teachers, this number is now estimated at 6,500. The subject has lacked leadership and direction. Meanwhile, design alone contributed...

Clare Lightowler

Clare Lightowler, Clare is a Registered Design and Technology Health & Safety Consultant and experienced middle leader with a Master’s in Teaching and Learning and the National Professional Qualification for Senior Leadership (NPQSL). Since 2010, she has led multiple departments and taught Design & Technology, Engineering, Textiles and Food. With a decade of experience as an Interior Architect, working on high-value projects she brings a wealth of transferable skills in communication, collaboration and adhering to legislative frameworks. Passionate about STEM education, Clare delivers STEM days...

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 the standards of teaching, linking with industry and incorporating new technologies...

Food Early KS3Y7Technology in Society - Future Food

Food Early KS3Y7Technology in Society - Future Food, D&T Key ResourcesEarly KS3 – Technology in Society Future food – 1-2 hours First published 2015; updated 2016 This unit considers how we might feed the world population in the future using lab-grown meat or insects as an alternative food source by investigating new and emerging technologies and investigating alternative food production methods. Key Learning Alternative food production; making synthetic protein in the laboratory Exploring the feasibility of eating insects as an alternative protein source NC 2014 Learning objectives ...

Baysgarth School: An engineering journey (Part 2)

Baysgarth School: An engineering journey (Part 2), This is the second part of a two-part series of podcasts, and the first of its kind recorded live in a school. We are excited to be able to bring you what we plan will be a series of spotlight sessions focused on D&T departments nationally. If you have stumbled across this episode without listening to Part One of the mini-series, I politely suggest you go back, as sequencing is quite essential. You can hear part two here on Spotify or Apple or Amazon.Baysgarth School is a...

Tools to help teachers.

Tools to help teachers., Convert your Individual membership to Departmental membership It is important to convert your membership to Departmental Partnership membership. Our secondary Departmental partnership has become the membership option of choice, really offering your school tremendous value, member support and really invaluable engagement for your whole team. This option is of high value to Design and Technology teachers within a department at a cost of £198. We have found that schools are often willing to pay for Departmental partnership membership for their whole department, out of school budgets and so...

Writing a scheme of learning in D&T: Putting pedagogy first

Writing a scheme of learning in D&T: Putting pedagogy first, This E-Learning course aims to give specialist and non-specialist teachers of Design and Technology the confidence to write and develop student-centred schemes of learning. Course objectives: Provide a meaningful learning experience for students, based on knowledge and skills required for GCSE/A Level Design and Technology. Identify opportunities for enriching your curriculum. Include content that is suitable for your students’ needs. This course is for: ...

Protect the Future of Inventing and Innovation: Samsung Electronics UK Calls for Refresh of the School Curriculum

Protect the Future of Inventing and Innovation: Samsung Electronics UK Calls for Refresh of the School Curriculum, Samsung Electronics UK, the Design & Technology Association, and The Design Council have issued a joint call to review the design and technology curriculum in schools to safeguard the future of innovation and invention in the UK. In a letter to Professor Becky Francis, curriculum review lead, and cc’d to the Secretary of State for Education, the organisations highlighted the urgent need to modernise D&T education to prepare students for technological advancements...

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