WMC workshops will draw upon your school experience and help you to interpret that experience in the light of current practice in Design and Technology education. Some sessions will introduce you to themes through focussed practical tasks, Examining Board publications and leading texts. At other times you will be asked to focus on evidence you collect through your school experience. You will also be asked to use the ideas explored in the sessions in planning your future work. You will also be asked to collaborate with others in preparing and presenting your views on key issues. Your work in this module will be supported through regular meetings with your Subject Mentor. You will be expected to take responsibility for relating the issues addressed in this module to your personal experience and building up evidence in your portfolio. Your Subject Mentor and WMC Course Tutor will support you in this process.

A further 252 hours of independent study will require you to take responsibility for relating the issues addressed in this module to your personal experience and building up evidence in your portfolio. Your mentor and WMC Course Tutor will support you in this process.

Design and Technology Education in the School Curriculum:
Aims and objectives of Design and Technology education; subject curriculum history and current curriculum debate; the nature of Design and Technology education. The variety of contexts: A2 and AS level, GCSE, GNVQ and KS3; cross-curricular themes. Recent curriculum development activities, e.g. Use of CAD/CAM and modern technologies. The role and management of coursework

Preparing for Teaching and Learning
Objectives and lesson planning; designing classroom tasks using a variety of resources; preparing schemes of work and issues in progression; assessment and record keeping; using simulations and practical; using visual stimulus; creativity in Design and Technology education.

Assessment
Formative and summative, coursework and examinations, written styles (including formal examinations): the essay, practical assessment and links to KS3 documents and Specifications, coursework assignments: reports, portfolios; individual and group assignments; oral assessment; competence-based approaches, profiling; grading written work, marking schemes.

Chosen Examination Board Specification documents
Final Report of Sir Gareth Roberts' Review (April 2002) HM-treasury
NAAIDT D&T: Quality through Progression ISBN 0 906 457 16 5
NAAIDT Raising Standards in D&T: Monitoring for Quality Assurance at KS3 and KS4 ISBN 0 906 457 157
Su Sayers, Jim Morley and Bob Barnes (eds), Issues in Design and Technology Teaching, Routledge Farmer (2002), ISBN 0-415-21686-9
Gwyneth Owen-Jackson (editor), Teaching Design and Technology in Secondary Schools (a reader), Routledge Farmer and Open University Press (2002), ISBN 0-415-26073-6
Gwyneth Owen-Jackson (editor), Aspects of Teaching Secondary Design and Technology (perspectives on practice), Routledge Farmer and Open University Press (2002), ISBN 0-415-26083-3
Gwyneth Owen-Jackson (editor), Learning to Teach Design and Technology in the Secondary School (A Companion to School Experience), Routledge Farmer and Open University Press (2000), ISBN 0-415-21693-1
EGGLESTON, J. Teaching Design and Technology - ISBN 0-335-20824-x

WMC teaching sessions
Tutorials
Placement School/College meetings with Mentor
WMC library
Materials and Links on PGCE Blackboard for instance:
Exemplar Government/Policy/Awarding Body Sites
www.qca.org.uk/
www.aqa.org.uk/
Exemplar D & T Education Sites
http://web.data.org.uk/data/index.php
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REVdt.htm
www.design-technology.org/newlnikspage.htm
www.tlfe.org.uk/designtechnology.htm
www.staffs.ac.uk/uniservices/infoservices/library
www.staffs.ac.uk/a2z4u/

Learning outcomes will be assessed through:

An assignment of 3000 words based on a critical evaluation of a teaching resource/activity in the context of its contribution to the wider school curriculum and its place in a scheme of work/Specification. Assesses all learning outcomes.