ABSTRACT

Learning to Teach Design and Technology in the Secondary School is established as 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 third edition has been fully updated in light of the latest curriculum, policy and theory, as well as exciting changes in the field of design and technology.  Designed to be read as a course or dipped into to for support and advice, it covers:

    • Developing areas of subject knowledge
    • Health and safety
    • Planning lessons
    • Organising and managing the classroom
    • Teaching and learning with digital technologies
    • 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 all student and newly qualified teachers – as well as their mentors - who aspire to become effective, reflective teachers.

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

PART I: DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY IN SCHOOL

part |2 pages

PART II: PREPARING TO TEACH DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY

chapter 3|20 pages

Health and safety in design and technology

chapter 4|20 pages

Preparing to teach design

chapter 6|21 pages

Preparing to teach food technology

chapter 7|16 pages

Preparing to teach materials technology

chapter 8|14 pages

Preparing to teach textiles technology

chapter 9|11 pages

Preparing to teach graphics

chapter 10|18 pages

Preparing to teach with digital technologies

part |2 pages

PART III: TEACHING DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY

chapter 11|18 pages

Pupil learning in design and technology

chapter 12|22 pages

Teaching design and technology

chapter 13|20 pages

Assessing design and technology

chapter 14|26 pages

Planning to teach design and technology

part |2 pages

PART IV: DEVELOPING YOUR TEACHING

chapter 15|18 pages

Developing links with other subjects

chapter 16|16 pages

Developing values

chapter 17|20 pages

Developing work with disruptive technologies

chapter 18|14 pages

Your professional development