Teaching in Primary Schools: Technology

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Teaching in Primary Schools: Technology

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Teaching in Primary Schools: Technology

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Introduction and contents

The booklet provided here formed part of the Primary Post Graduate Certificate in Education course which ran between 1994 and 1998. The Teaching in Primary School: Technology booklet was designed to help student teachers understand the issues surrounding teaching technology to primary pupils and provide some strategies to aid their teaching.

Section 1: Design and technology in the curriculum

Section 2: Teaching and learning design and technology

Section 3: Developing children’s ideas

Section 4: Design and technology capability for teachers

Section 5: Assessing children’s design and technology capability

Review of module, useful addresses and resources

References

Appendix 1: Developing a specialism in the design and technology curriculum

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 This material is taken from a discontinued Open University course. It is intended for re-purposing and re-use by educators rather than for use directly by learners. Learning outcomes appropriate to the original course may be provided within the material, but it is intended that educators will construct new learning outcomes appropriate to the re-use they make of this material.

Teaching in Primary Schools: Technology

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Suggested study hours 20

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What's included

The original pack included audio and video support material which is not provided here.

Within the OpenLearn Labspace area of the website you will also find other material from the Primary PGCE course:

E880_1: Primary teaching in Mathematics

E880_2: Primary teaching in English

E880_3: Learning to teach reading

E880_4: Mentoring in primary schools

E880_5: Primary teaching in Science

E880_6: Primary teaching in Art

E880_7: Primary teaching in Geography

E880_8: Primary teaching in History

E880_9: Primary teaching in Music

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The course is aimed at all Open University students.

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This material is taken from The Open University's OpenLearn website. OpenLearn provides free open educational resources for learners and educators around the world under a Creative Commons licence. Third party materials have been removed but for ease of use the original acknowledgements copy has been included. For the online version of this unit and for other free educational resources across a range of topics, please go to

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