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:
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- 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.
