Preparing Teachers of Technology: A Response to Gagel's NAITTE Membership Survey Report

Autor/in	Bjorkquist, David C.
Titel	Preparing Teachers of Technology: A Response to Gagel's NAITTE Membership Survey Report
Quelle	In: Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 43 (2006) 1, S.68-73 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-1864
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Secondary School Teachers; Teacher Education Programs; Teacher Educators; Elementary School Teachers; Industrial Education; Technical Education; Higher Education; Professional Associations; National Surveys; Group Membership; Organizational Change; Organizational Effectiveness; Program Improvement; Program Effectiveness; Technology Education; Organizational Objectives; Daily Living Skills; Agricultural Education; Job Training + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teacher education; Education; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Technikunterricht; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Gruppenzugehörigkeit; Organisationswandel; Unternehmenserfolg; Technisch-naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Business goal; Unternehmensziel; Alltagsfertigkeit; Agriculture; Landwirtschaftliche Ausbildung; Landwirtschaft; Ausbildung; Berufsqualifizierender Bildungsgang
Abstract	In this response to Charles Gagel's National Association of Industrial and Technical Teacher Educators (NAITTE) Membership Survey Report, the author states that the NAITTE of tomorrow cannot be the NAITTE of the past, as the organization is now feeling the effects of failing to change along with the field of teacher education. Of course, the direction in which NAITTE should change in order to accommodate the new playing field is not entirely clear, especially if changes are to serve the future and not just represent the present. The demand for elementary and secondary school teachers of technology, as they have traditionally known them in the past, has diminished and has resulted in the reduction of technology teacher education programs and, consequently, the NAITTE membership base. The author believes that joining together with teacher educators would be beneficial to NAITTE, broadening the population of prospective teachers who enroll in the organization's technological teacher education programs and thereby helping to stabilize the number of teacher educators. He also highlights the importance of partnering with teachers who use technological processes to teach basic life skills to special populations of students, entering into discussions with their colleagues in agriculture, and engaging in workforce education. In planning for the future of NAITTE, he says it is wise to go beyond the present mission statement to some guiding principles and to clarify what it is they stand for. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	National Association of Industrial and Technical Teacher Educators. Web site: http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JITE/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10