This course will provide the first steps on your journey to becoming an oustanding teacher of D&T. It will secure your understanding of the role Design and Technology plays within a diverse and engaging curriculum and the life skills it provides to learners, allowing them to actively contribute to a technology-rich society.

You will investigate varied approaches to developing students’ knowledge and understanding of designing and making as well as their practical skills. You will develop expertise in planning and delivering well-structured lessons and sequence of work that allow all learners to meet their full potential and provides progression across the key stages.

You will learn how to contribute to a curriculum which makes learning within D&T enjoyable, current and relevant; aligning it as closely as possible with the practices of real designers and makers from a wide range of fields. You will explore how to develop learners into confident and effective problem solvers who will be able to work with others to meet the human needs of the future.

Bishop Challoner Training School, in partnership with Alliance schools (BCTSA), is an accredited provider of school-based teacher training in Birmingham and across the West Midlands.

You will be in school 4 days a week where you will be fully involved in all aspects of a teacher’s work. One day a week you will have your pedagogical  training, which will provide a mixture of specific Subject Studies and more general Professional Studies sessions.

To enrich your professional practice and develop your expertise you will complete 2 PGCE assignments, which will contribute 60 credits towards a Master’s degree.

You will be in your school from day one.  At the beginning of the year you will observe expert practitioners, moving towards leading small parts of a lesson and gradually building up to teach whole lessons. You will receive the support of school-based mentors, as well as members of the BCTSA Central Team and Subject Tutors.