In this special edition of the podcast as we special because I'm not doing it on a to weekly basis, I'm doing it as a in between. And we're revisiting the redesigning the ante project, which I launched on the podcast in towards the end of 2022. To ask teachers to get involved with letting me know about some big controversial questions whether they thought they were the questions that we needed to discuss and decide on and debate
in design and technology. So I'll put a link in the show notes to those two original ones. But we're now at a stage where we finalise those questions. And I'm going to tell you who the week is, in a moment. we finalise those questions. And we're looking now for people to tell us what their answers are, to these questions. Or they can already hear that I've got that wrong. We're not quite wanting the answers we're wanting to know. Do you want to give us an answer to one of
these questions? That's where we've got to the this is a follow up as well to a book that I did with Eddie Norman called redesigning D and T talking and thinking, again, I'll put a link to that in the show notes. This is part of an ongoing design and research project, and getting us a community of teachers to think about how can we redesign the D&C curriculum, so I keep talking about these other people. So I'm going to introduce Andrew Halliwell, who's not with us this
afternoon. But he's involved in the project. But I've got on the podcast afternoon, Amanda Mason, and Ciaran Ellis, who are both D&T teachers who've been who are now taking the lead on this project, and are telling me what I've got to do. So I'm going to hand it over to them. And they're going to explain where we're at and what we're hoping that you will get involved with, and how you can tell us that you want to be involved. So over to Amanda.
Well, at the moment, what we are the where we're at at the moment is we've taken 24 questions around one. We've taken the information from the survey to determine which of those questions we're going to take forward. We're then decided actually reworded some of the questions were decided which ones were valid or which ones was agreed upon that still needed discuss it. And then from there, we then did another
survey, we had one, two. And from there, we've now have 18 questions, or were those is eating questions, we then want to just find out the responses to them, essentially.
Yeah, so So that's in a nutshell. So we've done quite a long process to get to this point. Because, and then we emphasise that getting to these 18 questions has been based on what teachers think, not on what mean, anything, the first lot of questions or 24, that you were talking about Amanda, me and Eddie came up with over lunch, one day wasn't just over lunch, we've been working on it for a
while. But because this project is about it being teacher led teachers designing D&T curriculum, then the whole process now, as Amanda said, has been around, sorting out these questions, typing them up getting them clear, because me and Eddie wrote them in our fancy academic language. And Amanda and Ciaran have made them much more accessible than normal. That's not to say that, you know, that's really implying that me and Eddie were a bit odd in the way we wrote them. So
we've got those 18. And what we're wanting now people to kind of want responses to those questions. Certainly, that's, that's where we're at. So Karen and Amanda have designed the next survey. So I'm gonna hand it over to Karen, and you can talk about this next survey and what it's about, because it could be a bit confusing it, couldn't it.
So I think the main thing to get across for this survey, we're not actually asking you to write a lot for this one. This one is just us selecting what questions you'd
like to write about. So the survey is dead simple, it shouldn't take very long to complete, all you're doing is selecting up to about four of the 18 questions that are there that you'd like to write a bit of a response to any ones that sort of appeal to you or set spark off in your mind and get you thinking, which ones you think you could actually write about? It'd be nice if we could get a little bit of a broad stroke spectrum across different
responses. And we're not asking for lots just several 150 words or so would be great.
So and then also, we've kind of said, because it's a design project, it could be a drawing, or it could even be a video recording, is what the ultimately responses are going to be. We need those by October.
And but yeah, as you're saying, Ciaran, we've just got this survey, and we kind of have a sense that some of the 18 questions are gonna be more people are more inclined to respond to than others, but we want responses to all this first survey is just as making sure we've got coverage across and it's anybody who's teaching in England is a practising D&T
teacher. This is a teacher led project, and I'm doing a lot of talking, and I'm not a teacher anymore, but it's a practising D&T teachers in England, primary or secondary and it can be state or private school. So it doesn't have to be one or the other. It's you know, we're wanting responses from across the board, a whole range of diverse spectrum of D&T teachers to be
involved as well. So don't think, Oh, this isn't for me, I've not been teaching long enough, or I've been teaching too long, or there's only me or, you know, I'm not a great D&T expert, I'm still developing, that doesn't matter. We're wanting to hear from lots of different people in this. And at the moment, as I said, we're just trying to find out what people think about this, these questions and which ones they
want to respond to. So Amanda, I'm actually going to put you on the spot, because you've talked about what you're going to do with these 18 questions in your department that might give some people some ideas that they don't have to fill out the survey, but what could they also be doing in the meantime?
Well, what I'm doing my school alongside the head of department, and we're going to use the book, we're going to use these 18 questions. And then we're going to have that as part of our CPD to delve deeper into the design and technology curriculum and how we would like it to be or how we would like it to be shaped. And from here on in. Yeah.
It's brilliant. Because I think I think some people who are using it like that, what we might get from your department is some responses.
Yeah. Well, I'm hoping to happen. Yeah. Hopefully, when this survey goes out, I'll be putting out to my department as well, those in might potlucks, not actually my buttocks department. And I'll be seeing them which of these questions, would you like to offer a response to which ones do you think you might be able to explain really well, or discuss or debate? And then hopefully, we'll get some more possible people to respond to the questions to then hopefully take forward on the next phase.
Great work, I think what the other thing to think about is, there's no right answer to any of these questions, either. We're wanting people's opinions on these questions. And so we're hoping that we get a variety of responses to each question. So yeah, that's great, then people might think about that, Ciaran, are you planning anything with these questions in your department,
something very similar, we're going to try and look at getting these out across the trust and starting to think about different people's views across the trust. And then with our department, we run a bit of a research project within the school. So we're going to hand these off to different staff in dt and see if they can get some responses back to us as well.
Fantastic. Wow. Okay. So we could end up with a whole variety of responses just from just from your to sort of locations, as well, your trust and your schools. That's brilliant. So for people listening, I'm hoping you find this kind of quite exciting. And fill out the survey, let us know which questions you're interested in responding to. And we won't hold you to it, we won't say you signed up for these forum we're expecting these fall, we won't also rule you out. If you don't fill out
the survey. It's just for us at the moment just to get a sense of where we think there might be gaps in responses. So we can kind of do some pushing to different people. But we will put put this out on social media. And we will be kind of emailing it out to different newsletters in lots of different places as many as possible. Have I missed anything, Amanda, and Karen,
I think possibly mentioned how this form is to be completed by the end of August, and then you'll be notified by September. Which question you might potentially responding.
Perfect, thank you very much. And you you get into the nitty gritty.
And if you can please share the form on your own social medias, and within your departments to help us get as many responses as possible.
Brilliant, brilliant. And it doesn't have to be an individual response. It can be a collective response, as well. And you can just use it and not even tell us to not mean but we would like to know and we'd like to have that input. So thanks very much. Hopefully, that will get everybody involved and excited. And look out for what we're going to do with this in the future. Because the next stage is, is to pull all the responses together, get it into
a publication. And then hopefully, if I can find some money from somewhere, get teachers together from across the sectors across the age ranges from DNC to come and debate this and let's see what we can do. And let's see what we can design from these different responses that people give to it. So anyway, thanks for listening. If you've got any questions do come back to Amanda Kerr and Andrew, not me because I'm not a practising teacher.