Course overview
This course will enable preservice teachers to expand upon their professional knowledge and skills to work competently in Secondary School Design and Technology workshop settings. Preservice teachers will further develop their Design and Technology knowledge and skills in Work Health and Safety (WHS), year 7-10 Design and Technology projects, workshop procedures and making procedures. Preservice teachers will learn about SOPs (Safe Operating Procedures) for workshop equipment and MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheets). Preservice teachers will use the workshop facilities to design and construct an "Item of Balance" using metal shaping and joining techniques including welding and cold forming. Preservice teachers will also design and construct a multi-part artefact using natural, recycled and manufactured timber products (or suitable combinations of polymer, timber and trans materials or metals) to make their artefact, 'Building on the Foundations'.
Course learning outcomes
- Identify strategies to teach Design and Technology to a broad and inclusive range of Year 7 - 10 school students with particular emphasis on Work Health and Safety and the use of machines and tools
- Manage a wide range of resources that might be used to deliver a safe and stimulating Design and Technology curriculum in secondary schools
- Create and manage stimulating Design and Technology learning environments through being capable users of a wide range of tools/machines, which might be used to deliver Design and Technology Education in secondary schools
- Critique the role of making in Design and Technology Education as part of a larger discipline interrelating with both critiquing and designing
- Critique the media through which Design and Technology Education curriculum can be delivered through quality learning experiences for Year 7 - 10 school students
- Employ coherent assessment strategies for design and problem-based Design and Technology Education