Teaching Design and Technology Creatively

Clare Benson, Suzanne Lawson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9781317225164
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

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.

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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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• Contributors
• Preface
• 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
• Index