ASTREA: DT Subject Leader Forum: Curriculum Implementation and Impact

This online course will develop participant’s understanding of the primary Design Technology curriculum. We will explore how the PKC DT Curriculum is structured, sequenced and planned and will consider how we can use PKC to support our own school curriculum. We will think about how  children develop knowledge, skills and understanding over time as they work through the DT curriculum, learning more and remembering more over time. We will reflect upon how we inspire students to think about the important and integral role which design, and the creation of designed products, play in our society. 

We will explore the three foundational areas of our primary design technology curriculum; cook, build and sew. During the session we will unpick three different ‘aspects’ of design that are interwoven into the three areas of study: the environment and sustainability, enterprise and innovation and the process of design. We will learn how these aspects of design technology acknowledge enduring and contemporary concerns of modern design.