E-assessment: Where Next?
This Teachers TV video Professor Richard Kimbell explains how e-portfolios could be used to assess students' design and technology work. This video looks at using mobile phones to test Key Stages Two, Three and Four students at the time of their choosing, abandoning the idea of ascribing numerical marks to students'…
Science
In this video from Teachers TV, Science teacher Nichola Offer uses a range of techniques to help her students think about STEM related careers. In a lesson based on in vitro fertilisation(IVF), Nicola invites the school nurse to support the activities and talk about her work. In a role play activity, the Year Eight students think…
Information, Advice and Guidance
In this video from Teachers TV, science teacher Angalika Newton is eager to promote careers in science to her students. Angalika works with Head of Careers Lorette Parker to plan a lesson to introduce the kinds of jobs that studying science can lead to. Their plans include bringing outside visitors into the school, giving advice…
Role Models and Work Placements
In this Teachers TV video, a group of STEM ambassadors visit Bradfield School in Sheffield to share their stories with a group of Year Nine girls. As a lesson starter the students take part in an exercise aimed at combating some of the stereotypical images of STEM related careers. The ambassadors then take questions from the…
Economic Wellbeing
In this Teachers TV programme, staff at Riddlesdown High School in South London are taking steps to encourage students to study science, mathematics and technology. Students at the school participate in a role play as members of a residents' association. During the activity they discuss a proposal to build a pharmaceutical…
Equality and Diversity
This Teachers TV video shows two secondary schools in Blackburn as they explore STEM careers by encouraging their students to take a hands-on approach to learning. Witton Park High School takes a workshop for Year Eight girls which aims to make students aware of gender stereotypes and encourage girls into engineering. The girls…
Cooking
This Teachers TV video features Graham Squire, a 20 year old chef from Portsmouth, who will represent the UK at the international showcase for vocational skills, the WorldSkills 2007 event in Japan. Graham's skills are highly rated by his employer, Claridges Hotel in London. During a typical shift in the restaurant, he explains…
Designing for CAD/CAM 2
In this Teachers TV video, design and technology trouble-shooter Steve Stott has devised some innovative ideas to help students design for CAD/CAM. Steve is trying out a new scheme of work at John Kelly Technology College in Brent, where over a third of students speak English as a second language. Students here can be challenging…
Designing for CAD/CAM 1
This Teachers TV video follows Steve Scott, a local authority design and technology advisor, as he works with staff and students in a school in Barking and Dagenham. Steve believes that although CAD/CAM has revolutionised classroom teaching, it can sometimes lead to traditional design skills being ignored. He has helped to pioneer…
In at the Deep End
In this video from Teachers TV, a newly qualified design and technology teacher has been given responsibility for planning and delivering a new vocational GCSE in manufacturing, but today's Year Ten lesson is not going well. Behaviour expert John Bayley observes that Bruce Duxbury's class management is excellent, but…
Design and Technology
This Teachers TV programme shows a complete lesson, uninterrupted and unedited with the intention of developing classroom observation skills. At the beginning of the film, the teacher gives a brief overview of the class and objectives for that lesson and afterwards, reflects on how she felt the session went. In the lesson, Year Eight…
Love 'em or Loathe 'em
In this Teachers TV video, a design and technology newly qualified teacher (NQT) asks for help with his pedagogical skills from behaviour expert John Bayley. In June, John observes Ben Nelson's isometric drawing lesson. They agree that many students have not understood the lesson. John feels Ben needs to be better organised…
Designing Your Own Prom Dress
In this Teachers TV video, secondary design and technology students with a passion for fashion, textiles and design make their own prom dresses as part of a vocational project at Key Stage Four. Helped by award-winning fashion designer, Seema Izaiah, the Year Eleven students from Holywells High School in Ipswich are given a unique…
Engineering Elegance - Awards
Kate Bellingham set a challenge for design and technology students to design a dress using e-textiles, to wear as she hosts a prestigious awards ceremony at the Globe Theatre in London. This Teachers TV video shows the final stage of the competition. The winning design, by A-level product design student Abigail, has now been completed…
Engineering Elegance - Manufacturing
Kate Bellingham set a challenge for design and technology students to design a dress using e-textiles, to wear as she hosts a prestigious awards ceremony at the Globe Theatre in London. This Teachers TV video shows the winner of the challenge as her designs become reality. Abigail, an A-level product and design student, meets…
Engineering Elegance - Design
In this Teachers TV video, presenter and teacher Kate Bellingham sets a design challenge to Key Stage Four and Key Stage Five design and technology students. The brief is to design a dress using e-textiles to be worn by Kate as she hosts the British Engineering Excellence Awards. Kate is joined by a panel of fashion, engineering…
Robot Challenge
In this Teachers TV video, a team of two schools from Yorkshire, design build and test a robot before travelling to America to take part in a competition against hundreds of other schools. The robot, made from a kit of 150 parts common to all teams, must be capable of competing in a basketball type game and the stakes are high. An…
Establishing CAD/CAM
From Teachers TV, this programme looks at the use of CAD/CAM in textiles. At the time of filming, interest in CAD/CAM was being boosted as the British textile industry staged a revival, fuelled by increasing demand for digitally printed fabrics. Ann Crawshaw, who has a national role in the teaching of CAD/CAM, passes on valuable…
Transforming Textiles
This Teachers TV programme is part of the series Inspirations, which documents imaginative school projects that make a difference. The video shows how Stella O'Toole has succeeded in turning textiles into one of the most popular subjects at Heywood Community School. When Stella was employed by the schools, she was set the…
Learning Outside the Classroom - Farm to Fork
This food technology lesson-planning resource from Teachers TV presents three inspirational ideas which use learning outside of the classroom to develop students’ passion for food. During a visit to their local organic farm secondary students are shown where their meat comes from. A trip to the butchers follows. In the…
George Ward Spicy Farm Pulao
Chef Challenge is a series of Teachers TV programmes in which professional chefs inspire students to cook creative dishes using local produce. In this challenge, chef Peter Vaughan visits The George Ward School, in Wiltshire, and takes students to local shops to help them choose good quality ingredients for his two recipes, South…
55 Minutes
From the Teachers TV series Chef Challenge, this video follows shows professional chef Michael Coaker working with students at Rosedale College, West London. Michael is working with the school as part of the Chefs Adopt a School project and has been challenged to complete a dish in one 55 minute food technology lesson. Initially…
Lunch in the Library
In this Teachers TV programme from the series Chef Challenge, chef Michael Coaker works with a GCSE class at Knights Templar school, Hertfordshire as part of the Chefs Adopt a School project. He sets the class the challenge of cooking a three course lunch for the headteacher and governors, using fresh Mediterranean ingredients. The…
Learning to Cook at Oathall Community College
In this Teachers TV video, Oathall Community College shows how it uses cross-curriculum teaching to teach students about local produce and cooking. The school has a farm on the premises run by Howard Wood, Rural Dimension Manager, who wants to make the students aware of the direct link between growing something and cooking and…
Learning to Cook at Shenfield High
In this Teachers TV video, food technology teacher Chris Willingale thinks that learning to cook is essential, encouraging her students to experiment with flavours and enjoy cooking. In Year Seven, the students take the opportunity to try out different flavours and ingredients for pizzas, whilst Year Eleven are completing their…
Learning to Cook at Parliament Hill
This Teachers TV video investigates why food technology has been such a successful area of the curriculum at Parliament Hill School for Girls in north London, despite limited facilities for teaching practical cooking. Head of department James Sharp is a dedicated food technologist, as are his two Deputy Headteachers. Their enthusiasm…
New Technology: The Issues
This Teachers TV video shows Goldsmiths College's Professor Richard Kimbell and senior researcher Tony Wheeler leading a discussion on the effectiveness of handheld technology and software following a two day trial at Saltash Community School in Cornwall. The discussion reflects on the challenge of using new technology to…
The Future's Handheld
This Teachers TV shows the first trial of the use of specially adapted software on handheld devices in the classroom. The devices may be used for a prototype design and technology GCSE exam being developed for the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) and Qualifications and Curriculum Agency (QCA) by Professor Richard Kimbell…
Sustainability: Making a Start
In this Teachers TV video, designer Kursty Groves visits Haydon School to help the design and technology department introduce sustainable issues into its projects. Kursty believes that most design and technology teachers are aware that environmental issues have never been more important and sustainable development is now a requirement…
Sustainability: Leading the Way
In this Teachers TV programme Kevin Hull, Head of Design and Technology at a large comprehensive school in Birmingham, talks about the Education for Sustainable Development programme he has developed in his department. The film shows some of the projects in action, including the Eco Bean Cafe project in Year Seven, and a Year Ten…
D&T - Ownership of Learning
In this professional development resource from Teachers TV behaviour expert John Bayley works closely with design and technology teacher Sheila Vekria to improve her planning of theory lessons. Sheila teaches a Year Nine class in mixed ability groupings. The students enjoy hands-on graphics lessons, but Sheila believes the students…
Managing GCSE Coursework 2
This Teachers TV programme looks at ways teachers can help design and technology students take a less formulaic approach to GCSE coursework. The two teachers shown in Managing GCSE Coursework 1, textiles teacher Lorraine John and Electronics teacher Stuart Barker, discuss their teaching strategies with Kevin Jones of the Specialist…