contemporary reform of technology education

CONTEMPORARY REFORM

OF

TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION

A SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE

Based on Achieving Scientific Literacy: From Purpose to Practices by Roger W. Bybee

1. PURPOSE

2. POLICY

3. PROGRAM

4. PRACTICE

FOUR ESSENTIAL & INTERDEPENDENT ASPECTS OF



PURPOSE

The purpose of technology education is the development of technological literacy for all students.

AIMS, GOALS, & RATIONALE


POLICY

The Standards for Technological Literacy (ITEA)

STANDARDS, BENCHMARKS, & FRAMEWORKS


PROGRAM

Examples

Foundations of Technology

Invention & Innovation

Standards-Based Curricula

Based on Achieving Scientific Literacy: From Purposes to Practices by Roger W. Bybee

PROGRAM

THE CURRICULUM IS ANCHORED ON THE

BENCHMARKS


THE CURRICULUM IS ANCHORED ON THE BENCHMARKS


PRACTICETEACHING

Strategies and Methods


PRACTICETEACHING

Each classroom is unique.

Every technology educator has particular strengths and skills, and understands his or her students as individuals and as a group.


PRACTICE

The real arena of reform is the classroom


• classroom teachers,• school-based administrators,• central office personnel,• state departments if education, and• teacher training institutions.

We need to see technology education as as an interdependent system consisting of:


Implementing Standards-Based Reform

Standards for technology education can:

• Promote exemplary content, teaching, and assessments.

• Guide the development of exemplary programs and practices.

• Create a shared set of criteria for improving technology education and achieving technological literacy.


A Course to Steer

Aligning purposes, policies, programs, and practices.

REFORM OF



Emphasizing “Big Ideas”

Ideas we want students to “get inside of” and retain after they’ve forgotten many of the details.

Foundations of TechnologyFoundations of Technology

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