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Community Clothing, Focused Tasks FTs are where students are taught specific technical knowledge, designing skills and making skills. This may be a quick whole-class making activity, learning a new CAD programme, exploring polymers, or much more. Investigative Evaluative Activities IEAs are where students learn from a range of existing products and find out about D&T in the wider world. This may be aspects such as product disassembly, reflection and prediction and discussions and explorations regarding sustainability. Curriculum units Click on the following bullets...
Consultants, Our D&T Independent Consultants offer a range of services on an independent, commercial basis. We also work alongside Local Authority Consultants employed by and confined to working within a Local Authority. Consultant members offer a range of services in support of design and technology practitioners and often work with the Association on a variety of D&T projects. Suitably qualified and experienced design and technology consultants can apply to become a Registered Design and Technology Health & Safety Consultant (RDTHSC), enabling them to provide training and...
SCITT: Enhancing Visual Communication Skills, Our Design and Technology focused School-Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT) programme is underway. Trainees at The Pioneers Partnership gain QTS on completion of the one-year school-centred programme. Despite the focus being on secondary education, trainees will also be looking at primary and post-16 education to give them a holistic view of the D&T landscape. Curriculum Consultant Paul Woodward recently delivered a comprehensive, face-to-face SCITT session. This is just one of the great intensive sessions we do as part of a wider offering of...
What One Teacher Learned at Dyson, The Design & Technology Association, in collaboration with the James Dyson Foundation, hosted a national CPD event at the Dyson campus in Malmesbury offering teachers from across the UK an opportunity to step inside one of the UK’s most innovative engineering environments. The fully funded CPD day brought together D&T teachers for a deep dive into hands-on activities that explored gamification, engineering tasks, Micro:bit programming, and mechanical construction. For Claire, a D&T teacher from a small independent school in...
The changing face of textiles, I know many fellow textiles specialists are concerned about how textile fits in to the new GCSE fearing a reduction in creativity and the loss of the unique nature of textiles as a material area. I completely agree it’s important to retain everything that is special about textiles, but I also support the broader focus that the new single GCSE offers. Rather than restricting creativity, the new GCSE has the potential to allow us to focus both on the traditional elements of...
DT Practice 2 2025 Online PDF, *Please note that this purchase is for a digital PDF version of this publication.* D&T Practice is an A4 magazine offering practical ideas and examples to primary and secondary classroom teaching in D&T. It includes case studies of classroom projects, product and resource reviews, as well as news about the Design & Technology Association and events and activities taking place in D&T. Practice is published three times a year and is available to Primary and Secondary Association members and to...
Virtual Teachers in Residence, Triple Double , We were exceptionally pleased to be able to spend a wonderful afternoon with Triple Double. Triple Double is a creative studio that use the power of design and creativity to transform how youth engage in sport and education. A group of teachers spent the afternoon learning about how this creative studio operates on a day to day basis and what makes them tick. Visit their website for more information. Triple Double Case Study Accessing our contacts of over 30,000...
GCSE Key Resources: Teaching for the Contextual Challenge, D&T GCSE Resources Teaching for the Contextual Challenge Enabling you to prepare your students to engage in user-centred iterative designing Ages 14-16First published 2016Updated 2018 This resource is aimed at supporting teachers to develop their subject knowledge in the area of context centred designing, in readiness for delivering the GCSE in Design and Technology. It forms part of a set of CPD resources aimed at modernising your design and technology curriculum at a time when there is...
CEO of Do Company, David O'Coimin, Podcast brought to you by The Design and Technology Association in partnership with The Edge Foundation. Listen now. David is the founder and CEO of Do Company, a company founded in 2016 to "Deliver smart solutions to the challenges posed by rapidly changing living and working environments". He describes himself as a digital nomad and a serial entrepreneur. In this podcast, he talks us through his journey from school in rural Ireland to becoming a product designer, social visionary, and successful...
Key Practitioners introductions, The Key Practitioners PoaP focuses on a selection of recommended key individuals from across the design and technology specialisms. This is focused for KS2 but can be delivered at any time across those year groups. The planner gives you ideas for how you can incorporate key individuals into your planning and units of work as well as giving you an overview of each of the recommended individuals so as to help you select the most relevant practitioner for your planning and also...
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