GCSE textiles

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Me and my big mouth have volunteered to set up and teach a GCSE Textiles course at my school next year. I'd love to hear from teachers who deliver this (or the BTEC/ A level) as I have no experience teaching a practical/ creative subject or setting up a new course. I just love sewing and should now by now that my headteacher will take you up on any suggestion you make😆

Don’t you need to have the right training ?

I am defending my cousin here who is fully trained to teach Food, and Textiles and would roll her eyes at you just thinking you can do this. She had to teach Resistant Materials a couple of years ago, which at least sits under the same Department, and she was utterly lost.

I don't know. I am a qualified and experienced teacher of a non-practical subject already. I suggested the possibility of setting up a GCSE Textiles to the head teacher and he wants to give it a go. I'm assuming he knows the requirements.

I am also pretty good at sewing so it's not that I think I could "just" teach it, I have good skills in a crucial area!

But DT with textiles is a lot more that just sewing. There is a large common element to all the DT courses. Unless that part could be taught by a DT teacher and you just cover the textiles bit. Even then it is a lot more than sewing.

Do you have much experience with design cycles and coursework? As that seems to be the main focus of the NEA.

You are setting yourself up for a lot of work, will you get the time off to do that?