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ce. My mentor went through how he teachers the lessons and showed me how to use the machines and how he expects the students to use the machines. I believe that my mentor and technician have 30+ years working within an industrial setting and have become very knowledgeable about the machinery and a working environment.

The reason for my mentor showing me how to use the machines, was because each school has different one and settings also health and safety policies to use them. The machine maybe the same but the ventilation system will be different and the placement within the room and department.

The Grange Comprehensive in Runcorn offers a full range of activities for students even with the high risk associated with these activities. The techniques that years 7 to 9 are taught include;- casting, brazing and metal lathe work. My original personal opinion was one of fear to have to teach these activities as a trainee teacher. When I spoke to my fellow design and technology trainee teachersback at university, they also shared my concerns and fears.

Through my classroom observation of my mentor and actually teaching the metal work module my fear was not justified. Teaching the module having control of the way I demonstrated the use of the brazing touch and getting the first hand experience of how students react and understand the hazards put in front of them. I believe that the year 9 group have a good understand of the health and safety implications and hazards because they have been taught them since they entered high school. If they had not been exposed to an increasing 'risky' or 'hazardous' activities and just expected to be able to instantly deal with high risk activities, the potential for accidents would be greatly increased. The respect and behaviour when in the workshops was not what I was expecting from observing them in none practical lessons.

Conclusion

One of the import issues is that of class sizes when dealing with practical lessons. The Design and Technology Association have given D&T department guidelines of 20 students for years 7-10 and class sizes of 15 for year 11 in secondary education, these are only guidelines and not legislation. These guidelines have benefited design and technology teacher's fortunate enough for their school to implement them. If this was made into legislation every design and technology teacher would benefit and have the confidence to be able to teach the high risk activities within design and technology and not shy away from them because of the difficulty in managing 30+ students.

Teachers could eliminate all aspects of risk from the student's learning experiences. This may help to ensure that while pupils are in their care they are not harmed, but accidents will and still do happen. Understanding why accidents happen is a vital skill which a design and technology teacher should learn and also read about. A hazard often needs to be combined with an unsafe action to cause aaccident, studies have suggested there are a number of similarities contribute to why accidents happen. Bad luck factors outside of the teacher's control; poor decision making and the reaction to the situation; Lack of adequate and appropriate group management, supervision and organisation; the over-estimation of the teacher's ability an本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。