Learning to Teach Design and Technology in the Secondary School: A Companion to School Experience

By Gwyneth Owen-Jackson

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138785253
• ISBN13: 9781138785250
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.8" x 9.5"