This special offer bundle includes the following eBooks:
* Creating Continuity and Progression in Design & Technology (Whole School)
* Retrieval Examples specific to Design and Technology (Whole School)
* Design & Technology Knowledge Organisers (Whole School)
Creating Continuity and Progression in Design & Technology (Whole School)<</u>>!!
This publication is aimed at helping a school or academy to have a design and technology curriculum in place that provides challenge and a broad coverage.
The progression map at the beginning is a recommended way of ensuring pupils' progress from EYFS through to Year 6. It is set out under the following headings: designing; making; evaluating; technical knowledge or food technology.
The way of working is a suggestion which would help pupils meet the substantive knowledge and disciplinary knowledge needed to help them be proficient in DT.
Each recommended unit follows the same process, outlined below:
Link It! > Research It! > Design It! > Resource It! > Make It! > Evaluate it! (and repeat)
Additional, or alternative units are suggested at the end of this document.
Retrieval Examples specific to Design and Technology (Whole School)
This resource is intended to be used to support pupils' design and technology skill and knowledge. The tasks are designed to be 5, 10 or 15 minute activities to be used at different times throughout the year. The aim is to support pupils' long-term memory and to help them to 'know more and remember more'. The bespoke activities link directly to the design and technology programmes of study for key stages 1 and 2. However, you may wish to consider using the activities with a different age group to that specified, according to the designers and content that are covered in your school environment, and the skills they are taught. You will notice that the retrieval activities include both practical application of skills in addition to recollection of knowledge. This gives children the opportunity to both recall prior knowledge and practise previous skills.
It is important to note that this resource is provided electronically so that you can make amendments or adaptations as you choose.
The questions can be changed or adapted according to your school's identified key knowledge and skills for design technology. For example, you could use the format of the questions here to focus on specific skills, designers or developments in technology.
Design & Technology Knowledge Organisers (Whole School)
As you may well have been aware Focus, in line with many other organisations, previously produced a set of knowledge mats for geography, history and science.
However, the recent research into the usefulness of knowledge organisers for primary school aged pupils recommends a slimmer version with less detail.
The main aim is to be very much more focused and therefore the new-style Focus design, ensures that there are no more than 6 vocabulary words per organiser and that there is greater clarity about the key knowledge the pupils should acquire.
In addition, each organiser will have a prior knowledge section which should be completed as a class together at the beginning of any new unit of learning.
Part of the reason for the change is to reduce cognitive overload. We have therefore given greater consideration to extraneous cognitive load. We have therefore kept the organisers less busy, ensured use of same font and kept a similar outline for each one.
By adding in the prior knowledge 'harvester' we are therefore ensuring a better chance for long term retention.
