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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.
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Introduction
Part 1 Design and technology in education Introduction 1 Design and technology in the Secondary School
2 Design and technology in the primary school
Part 2 Design and technology curriculum Introduction 3 Designing in design and technology 4 Teaching design communication skills 5 Preparing to teach materials technology 6 Preparing to teach textiles 7 Preparing to teach electronics and control technologies 8 Preparing to teach food within the secondary school curriculum 9 Teaching about disruption: a key feature of new and emerging technologies 10 The role of critiquing in design and technology education 11 Health and safety in design and technology
Part 3 Teaching design and technology Introduction 12 Planning lessons in design and technology 13 Key pedagogies in design and technology 14 Planning for progression in design and technology 15 Assessing design and technology 16 Developing links with other subjects
Part 4 Developing your design and technology teaching and career Introduction 17 Values in design and technology 18 Transitions after secondary design and technology 19 Your professional development 20 Using and producing design and technology education research
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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.
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This 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 and teach creative lessons.
