Choosing the Right STEM Degree Course: Investigating the Information Available
This report focuses on progression from post-16 education in schools and colleges into STEM first degree programmes and proposes a number of recommendations for improving levels of communication among the main stakeholders. SCORE commissioned the Centre for Education and Industry, which is based at the University of Warwick,…
Nuffield Design and Technology 11-14: Teacher's File
The Nuffield Design and Technology Teacher's File for Key Stage Three contains a large number of resource tasks which can be included in lessons. These short, focused activities are presented as instruction sheets and are intended to increase technical knowledge, skills and design strategies. The file starts with the full…
The Continuum of Design Education for Engineering
This booklet examines the development of engineering expertise and makes recommendations on ways to harness, encourage, facilitate and reward it. Covering all Key Stages from Foundation Stage to post-16 and higher education, the booklet states the case for design and technology in schools to encourage an understanding of engineering,…
Interaction: the Relationship Between Science and Design and Technology
This report looks at the very separated relationship of science and technology subjects in secondary schools at the time. It tries to identify reasons why there was very limited use of cross-curricular activities and makes recommendations to encourage better relationships, collaboration and cooperation between departments. Contents Executive…
Improving Design Sub-skills
This Teachers TV programme follows resistant materials specialist Sharon Giraud, from Nower Hill High School in Harrow, as she teaches two lessons, three weeks apart, as part of a nine-week module on jewellery design. The new Key Stage Three Strategy at the time of filming placed a greater emphasis on design. Harrow was one of ten…
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'…
Assessing Design Innovation: Tasks
This set of tasks presents students with challenges encouraging them to be creative and imaginative in responding to a design brief. Each project can be used as an assessment activity and students are given six to seven hours to complete the task. Each brief clearly explains the scenario, what is required and what the students should…
Assessing Design Innovation: Report
This paper, produced by the Technology Education Research Unit (TERU) at Goldsmiths College, University of London, reports the findings of an assessment of design and technology teaching in primary and secondary schools. A focus of the report was on assessment of design and technology subjects at all stages and particularly at GCSE.…
Attitudes of Potential Teachers of Design and Technology
Against a background of falling applications and teacher recruitment, this research aimed to identify the attitudes of potential design and technology teachers towards pursuing this career. The research looked at potential teachers' career aspirations and how their own experiences of design and technology at school affected…
The Great E-scape
This resource contains a video interview with Professor Richard Kimbell, of the Technology Education Unit (TERU) at Goldsmith College, describing the reasons for and the process of creating the E-scape electronic assessment system. The aim was to transform the way teachers create, manage and assess learning. The video is accompanied…
E-scape Portfolio Assessments: Reports
The E-scape project was an electronic assessment system that was based on students designing and prototyping new products by working entirely digitally. The expectation was that this form of assessment would encourage new forms of thinking in the students, enrich the designing process and make the assessment process more manageable.…
Design and Technology in a Knowledge Economy
This paper, published by the Engineering Council in 2001, sets out the importance of design and technology education and the contribution it makes to the school curriculum. Design subjects play a role in developing innovative thinking and practices, and the skills needed in a knowledge economy. The aims of this report are to demonstrate…
Primary Solutions in Design and Technology
This resource, produced by the Design and Technology Association (DATA), contains 24 innovative design and technology units for use in the primary classroom together with a handbook to advise teachers of the best use of the materials. The resource begins by making the argument for including design and technology in the primary…
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…
Dinner Granny
This Teachers TV video highlights an innovative programme that combines healthy school meals and environmental awareness education in a Gloucestershire special needs school. When cook Pat Kendall started working at New Siblands School, she was delighted to learn the administration wanted her to serve organic food. The school…
Project Crunch
In this programme from Teachers TV, students at Thomas Alleyne's High School are set an enterprise project to launch a healthier brand of crisps, with the help of local manufacturer Glennans. Glennans approached the school with an idea for a joint project to celebrate the company's 21st anniversary. Over six months,…
7 Day Pupil Food Diaries
This Teachers TV video follows two students, Megan and Ryan, as they keep a food diary for one week, and try and eat five pieces of fruit and vegetable every day, in response to the challenge they have been set. We see the results of their endeavours as Joanna Postlethwaite, Head of Food Technology at John Cabot Community Technology…
24 Hour Pupil Food Diaries
In this Teachers TV programme Joanna Postlethwaite, Head of Food Technology at John Cabot Community Technology College, sets Year Seven students the task of recording their eating habits for 24 hours. Megan and Ryan keep a video diary for the day, recording what they both eat at school and at home, producing some interesting results.…
Alderman Knight School
This teachers TV programme features Alderman Knight School in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. The school has embraced the National Healthy Schools Programme with a passion and students are encouraged to think about food, how to grow it, cook it and buy it. The school has introduced many schemes to create a healthier learning environment,…
John Hanson Community School
This Teachers TV programme features John Hanson Community School in Hampshire, which used a move to a new building in 2002 to transform into a more healthy school. Headteacher Steve Evatt explains that the old 1930's school site had "long passed it's sell by date", and that the new hi-tech building has enabled…
Healthy School Food
In this video from Teachers TV, Mike Baker and Sheena McDonald discuss the government's initiatives to encourage healthy eating in schools. They look at new nutritional standards for school meals as well as the introduction of compulsory food technology in schools where facilities are available. Shadow schools minister Nick…
Tackling Obesity
With childhood obesity rising, this programme from Teachers TV looks at how schools can tackle the issues surrounding the problem. Addressing whether schools should help to identify children at risk of obesity, the programme looks at the results of a new law in Arkansas, which allows the state's schools to directly contact…
Licence to Cook Case Studies: Cooking
These case studies from Licence to Cook provide examples of activities and worksheets developed by lead practitioners to support the teaching and learning of basic cooking skills in the classroom. Making a snack is a homework activity which asks students to analyse and review a snack they have made, explaining the purpose of the…
Licence to Cook Case Studies: Health and Safety
These case studies from Licence to Cook provide examples of activities and worksheets developed by lead practitioners to support the teaching of health and safety in food technology. Safety and equipment is an example of a short worksheet for Year Seven students covering how to use a cooker safely Hygiene and safety is an activity…
Licence to Cook Case Studies: Product Evaluation
These case studies from Licence to Cook provide examples of activities and worksheets developed by lead practitioners to support the teaching of product evaluation in food technology. Word bank for evaluations sheets gives a table of sensory terms which can be used to help students select and use words when writing evaluations…
Teach Food Technology: Mentor Guide
This guide was intended for use by mentors who are supporting teachers being trained as part of the Teach Food Technology programme. The guide prepares them to work with their nominated mentee and plan a mentoring day. The contents of the guide may also be useful for all those involved in mentoring a new food technology teacher.…
Food Technology in the Curriculum
The Food Technology in the Curriculum course was part of the Teach Food Technology national training programme. The one day course was supported by the Licence to Cook programme and case studies by lead practitioners. The training materials focus on the nature of food technology within design and technology and how it can contribute…
Using a Cooker
These short videos are part of the Licence to Cook course and are designed to be shown in class to demonstrate the how to use the oven and hob safely during their practical cooking sessions. The short videos can either be used to introduce a new technique that students will be using in a cooking session or used to recap skills learned…
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