4th Edition
Learning to Teach Design and Technology in the Secondary School A Companion to School Experience
Learning to Teach Design and Technology in the Secondary School is a core text for all those training to teach design and technology in the secondary school. It helps you develop subject knowledge, acquire a deeper understanding of the role, purpose and potential of design and technology within the secondary curriculum, and provides the practical skills needed to plan, teach and evaluate stimulating and creative lessons.
This fully updated fourth edition includes information on all areas of design and technology, and on new subject requirements relating to exam qualifications. It includes three new chapters on the role of critiquing in design and technology education, transitions after secondary design and technology, and using and producing design and technology education research. Designed to be read as a course or dipped into for support and advice, it covers:
- Each area of design and technology: materials, textiles, electronics and food
- Integrating new curriculum topics, such as emerging technologies, into your teaching
- Developing areas of subject knowledge
- Health and safety
- Planning lessons
- Organising and managing the classroom
- Teaching wider issues through design and technology
- Assessment issues
- Your own professional development.
Bringing together insights from current educational theory and the best contemporary classroom teaching and learning, this book will prove an invaluable resource for students on all training routes – as well as their mentors – who aspire to become effective, reflective design and technology teachers.
Introduction
Part 1 Design and technology in education
Introduction
1 Design and technology in the Secondary School
Alison Hardy
2 Design and technology in the primary school
Clare Benson
Part 2 Design and technology curriculum
Introduction
3 Designing in design and technology
Paul Woodward
4 Teaching design communication skills
Jamie Tinney and Mike Mellors
5 Preparing to teach materials technology
Alan Bright
6 Preparing to teach textiles
Suzanne Lawson and Heidi Bemrose-Brown
7 Preparing to teach electronics and control technologies
Tony Cowell
8 Preparing to teach food within the secondary school curriculum
Marion Rutland and Angela Turner
9 Teaching about disruption: a key feature of new and emerging technologies
David Barlex, Torben Steeg and Nick Givens
10 The role of critiquing in design and technology education
Steve Keirl
11 Health and safety in design and technology
David Leask
Part 3 Teaching design and technology
Introduction
12 Planning lessons in design and technology
Sarah Davies
13 Key pedagogies in design and technology
Matt McLain
14 Planning for progression in design and technology
Alison Hardy
15 Assessing design and technology
Suzanne Norris
16 Developing links with other subjects
Deborah Winn
Part 4 Developing your design and technology teaching and career
Introduction
17 Values in design and technology
Mike Martin
18 Transitions after secondary design and technology
Rebecca Topps
19 Your professional development
Liam Anderson
20 Using and producing design and technology education research
Stephanie Atkinson
Biography
Alison Hardy is Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, UK. She teaches on the PGCE Design and Technology course and is Lead for the MA Education programme.