Developing Subject Knowledge, Skills and Understanding for Teaching and Learning in DT

Aims

To develop the subject knowledge, skills and understanding for high quality DT teaching and learning in the primary classroom.

Overview

This three-part programme supports primary practitioners to reflect on and improve their teaching of DT. Each session lasts half a day.

Session 1 looks at what we choose to teach (live via Zoom)

• Creating a strong rationale to engage children in DT learning
• Ensuring you have a rich progression in skills and knowledge
• What should go in a ‘perfect’ DT lesson - and how does this differ from engineering to cooking?

Session 2 is an on-demand recording to support reflection and activities. It will explore five ideas for exciting DT, including:

• Learning to use tools - to a high level of competence and safety
• Focusing on the process, not just the end result
• Engaging ways to expand and enrich technical vocabulary

Session 3 explores how we teach DT, and how we establish and evidence our impact (live via Zoom)

• How do we understand ‘Greater Depth’ in engineering and cooking?
• Assessment approaches that don’t divert focus and energy from the real substance of learning
• Using literature, sources, and other aspects of ‘cultural capital’

Strive for perfection in everything you do. Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist, design it

Sir Henry Royce

Click to watch the 10 Minute Teaser with David Maytham, CEO TT Education and James Lewis depty of School Improvement, recorded 24.5.21