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Enriching the primary curriculum via education - industry liaison
Get PDFThis article describes:collaboration between a primary school, a manufacturing firm and a teacher training institutionenrichment of the primary curriculum via education-industry liaison to improve mutual understanding between industrialists and those involved in education.IntroductionVisits by secondary school students to industry, often on work experience in Years 10 or 11, are commonplace; visits by primary school pupils to industry less so. This paper records the experiences which resulted from a partnership between three institutions: a primary school (Coton Primary School, Coton, Cambridgeshire), a manufacturing firm (Ciba-Geigy Plastics, Duxford, Cambridgeshire) and a teacher training college (Homerton College, Cambridge). In their separate ways all three institutions already had experience of education-industry liaison prior to the project that is described here. Coton Primary School had undertaken topic work involving horticulture and the marketing of plants, whilst Ciba-Geigy and Homerton College had collaborated on industry-based problem-solving projects for primary teachers and trainees with chemistry or physics as their main B.Ed. degree subject
The merits of class teachers teaching design and technology against the use of the specialist teacher (Winnie the Pooh or Christopher Robin ...Who is right?)
Get PDFThe current debate concerned with the specialist primary teacher versus the generalist is one that has stimulated strong arguments both for and against among primary specialists. Of course, it does not have to be either/or but factors such as size of staff, tirnetabling and an uneven balance of strengths often predetermine what is or is not possible. This article seeks to highlight the argument for the class teacher teaching design and technology, whatever his/her curriculum strengths. It focuses on three main areas for discussion:knowledge of the childrencurriculum integrationclass managementIt is hoped that this article will contribute to the argument and will provoke a reader to provide another viewpoint in this topical debat