CONT487: Technological Design Grades 9/10

Course Schedule

Course Description

The Technological Design Basic ABQ will use an activity-based, project-driven approach to help you acquire new technical skills, create project resources, design curriculum documents, and develop the assessment and evaluation tools you will need to teach Grade 9 and10 Technological Design courses in your school. Teaching Technological Education is a lot different than teaching other subjects. Technology teachers encounter many variables in the classroom and shop that differ from the regular classroom. For example, we deal with a multitude of tools and equipment, which can present safety issues unlike those of other classes. Safety issues arise as soon as students walk into the shop, and therefore our approach to classroom management is critical. One of the major benefits of being a technology teacher is that students want to be here. Students typically comment, "This is my favourite class", "I get to work with my hands", or "I get to build projects." What does this tell us about the curriculum we deliver? The curriculum should be hands-on, enjoyable, project-driven, and meet the Ministry expectations for Technological Education. We need to design our curriculum to meet all these criteria and more. For the teacher, the curriculum has to be fluid, and therefore the curricular units, activities, and lessons have to be sequential. Our assessment and evaluations should be honest and authentic for learning. In addition, we need to address students' literacy and numeracy skills even though we are not Math or English teachers. The objective of these modules is to help you to design a curriculum to meet both students' and teachers' needs. The curriculum has to be designed around the tools and resources available in each classroom and shop. A good curriculum will be the best tool you have in your shop or classroom. The aim of all ABQ Technological Studies programs is to prepare teachers to teach broad-based technology (BBT) courses in secondary schools.

In this course you will have the opportunity to:

• use and enhance technological skills
• create technology projects using open-ended problem-solving methods
• develop teaching techniques to promote cooperative learning in small groups
• design projects that involve community partnerships
• acquire new project ideas and teaching strategies by sharing resources with other BBT candidates
• develop authentic approaches to assessing projects
• develop ways of documenting students' skills acquisition

Application Requirements

1) OCT MEMBERSHIP

We will use the OCT number you provide during online registration to confirm you are an OCT member.

2) WORK EXPERIENCE/EDUCATION

• Educators with existing technological education qualifications do not need to provide additional documentation.
• Educators without technological education qualifications need:
  • a Certificate of Qualification and Registration
  • five years of work experience, including business or industrial experience, or a combined total of five years’ post-secondary education and work experience, including:
    • at least two years’ business or industrial work experience, at least four months of which were continuous, and post-secondary education acceptable to the OCT consisting of:
      • an apprenticeship program acceptable to the OCT, and…
      • work experience demonstrating competency based on an assessment of advanced skills and knowledge, related to a technological education subject listed in Schedule B of the regulation.
  • *Experience teaching Tech Design Grades 9/10 is accepted as part of the five-year requirement at a ratio of two years experience to one year of the required total e.g., four years teaching Tech Design Grades 9/10 is equal to two years of the required five years experience.

• Eligible work experience must use skills and knowledge related to the subject and may include business or industrial experience in the following areas:
  • architectural/mechanical drafting
  • architectural/mechanical engineering
  • engineering design technology
  • prototyping or constructing material in wood, metal or other media

*One year of work experience can be interpreted as 1,700 hours of work experience.

**If you were self-employed, you must submit an affidavit, a business license, proof of income and a letter from a major supplier/customer to confirm years of work experience.

Course Materials

Accommodations

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Refund Schedule

If you drop a course:

1. by the midpoint of the course, you will receive 100% of your course fee.
2. after the midpoint, before the end of the course, you will receive 50% of your course fee.

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