Teaching Design and Technology Creatively

by Clare Benson (Editor), Suzanne Lawson (Editor)

Overview

Packed full of practical ideas, Teaching Design and Technology Creatively is a stimulating source of guidance for busy trainee and practising teachers. Grounded in the latest research, it offers a wealth of suggestions to foster creative development in D&T and supports teachers in providing their students with more authentic, enjoyable experiences.

Providing a wealth of ready-to-use ideas for creative lessons, key topics covered include:

• Understanding links between D&T and creativity
• Creating a foundation for D&T in the early years
• Using objects, books and real-life contexts as imaginative starting points
• Developing designerly thinking
• Making the most of construction kits
• Helping children draw to develop their ideas
• Encouraging dialogic talk in D&T to drive learning
• Exploring food as a creative resource
• Practical approaches to embedding IT and programming in the curriculum
• Taking learning outside the classroom.

Teaching Design and Technology Creatively provides practical teaching suggestions to ensure teachers of all levels understand how to teach for creativity. It shows how learning experiences in D&T have the potential to extend children’s technological knowledge, and to promote problem-solving and evaluation skills. Drawing on examples from real-world projects, this text is invaluable for all those who wish to engage students in D&T and encourage creative classroom practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138654570
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/23/2017
Series:	Learning to Teach in the Primary School Series
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Clare Benson is Professor of Primary Education, specialist D&T, Birmingham City University, UK.

Suzanne Lawson is Senior Lecturer and the PGCE Secondary Course Leader, University of Worcester, UK.

Table of Contents

1. Setting the context: design and technology and creativity  2. Teaching creatively and teaching for creativity  3. Teaching design and technology creatively in the early years  4. Creative Design and Technology through starting points  5. Creativity in Design  6. Drawing as a Tool for Thought: How children can use drawing to develop their creative design ideas  7. Creative learning and teaching with construction kits  8. Exploratory and dialogic talk and creative learning  9. Creativity in Food  10. Linking Design and Technology and Computing to promote creative learning experiences  11. Children learning outside the classroom  12. Creativity through Conversation  13. Creativity – future challenges and rewards