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Our Mission
The mission of Technology
Engineering Education is to ensure all students are technologically literate.
Our Vision
To provide leadership, service
and connections to help prepare all Tennessee teachers and students towards
becoming technologically literate citizens.
Technological
Literacy Defined
Technological literacy will enable students to become life long
learners who are effective and contributing members of society. The development
of technological literacy focuses on knowledge, understandings and
appreciations pertaining to technology, its evolution and societal
significance, and the interrelationship of people, capital, knowledge, time,
tools, materials, and machines in technology processes and systems.
Technology
Engineering Education Defined
Technology Engineering Education is an integrated,
experience-based instructional program designed to prepare students to be
knowledgeable about technology - its evolution, systems, technologies,
utilization, and social and cultural significance. It results in the
application of mathematics and science concepts to technological systems in
areas such as, but not limited to: construction, manufacturing,
communications, transportation, biotechnology, and power and energy.
Definition of Technology
Technology is the application of resources to design, produce,
and use products and services that extend human potential to improve and
control the natural and human made environment.
Goals
·
Provide a standards-based 5-12 program that
ensures that all students are technologically literate.
·
Provide opportunities for all students
without regard to gender or ethnic origin.
·
Provide clear standards and expectations for
increasing student achievement in math, science, and technology.
·
Provide leadership and support that will
produce continuous improvement and innovation in the program.
·
Restore America's status as the leader in
innovation.
·
Provide a program that constructs learning
from a very early age and culminates in a capstone experience that leads
students to become the next generation of technologists, innovators,
designers, and engineers.
Organizing Principles
The program is organized around seven
principles. These principles are very large concepts that identify major
content organizers for the program. In order of importance, the seven
organizing principles are:
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Engineering through design improves life.
·
Technology has and continues to affect
everyday life.
·
Technology drives invention and innovation
and is a thinking and doing process.
·
Technologies are combined to make
technological systems.
·
Technology creates issues that change the
way people live and interact.
·
Technology impacts society and must be
assessed to determine if it is good or bad.
·
Technology is the basis for improving on the
past and creating the future.
Benefits of Technology
- Develop
higher thinking skills.
- Learn
new and emerging technology.
- Apply
technology to practical problems.
- Help
career choice and planning.
- Build
work and safety attitudes.
- Enhance
leadership ability.
- Reinforce
other subjects.
- Engage
in problem-solving.
- Prepare
for advanced education and training.
Technological Studies
Involve
- Designing,
developing, and utilizing technological systems.
- Open-ended
problem-based design activities.
- Open-ended
project-based learning activities.
- Cognitive,
manipulative and effective learning strategies.
- Working
individually as well as in a team to discover solutions to problems.
