1. The HISTORY of Tech Ed
History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
- David McCullough (writer: 1776, John Adams, SeaBiscuit)

2. Historical Perspective of Industrial and Technical Education Programs
Apprenticeships
Manual Labor Movement
Manual training (1870’s)
Manual Arts (1890’s)
Industrial Arts (1900’s – 1980’s)
Industrial Education
Vocational Education (1918)
Technology Education (1990’s)
Career and Technical Education
Technology and Engineering Education?

3. Greeks / Romans Greeks & Romans
caste system (citizen, craftsman, slaves).
educated would have no connection to manual activities (Plato).
Manual labor looked down on (yet valued to society)
Family apprenticeships: means of transmitting knowledge
Jews: Combination of religious (Rabbis) and trade education (Father to Son).
“Beautiful is the intellectual occupation if combined with some practical work” Talmud
Early Christians:
Jesus was a carpenter from Nazareth, Apostles
Benedictine monks - Manual labor honorable, trades & agriculture.
formal education for clergy, masses illiterate.

4. Middle Ages (300- 1300) Renaissance and Reformation (1300-1600)
Merchants, artisans, guilds
Guild schools to teach children 3 R’s
Apprenticeship indenture system
Trades learned through imitation and emulation
Moral, religious and civic instruction in addition to a trade

5. Rabelais (France) 1490’s-1553)
Critic of church, school and state.
Knowledge through use of objects and the observation of processes.
Wrote Gargantua and Pantagruel (Described a classic education from a new perspective).
Rabelais influenced Rousseau who in turn influenced Pestalozzi.

6. Martin Luther ( )
“ The right kind of schooling should be given to all the people, noble and common, rich and poor, it was to include both boys and girls – a remarkable advance; finally the state was to use compulsion if necessary. (Bennett p. 31)
academics ( languages, logic, math music, history science) and work go together
Go to school for two hours and then home to learn a trade.

7. Comenius: (1592-1670) Father of modern pedagogy
The child perceives through the senses; everything in the intellect comes through the senses (experimentation, discovery learning, nature art)
Education should be enjoyable
Educate
First, The senses
Second, The memory
Third, The intellect
Last, The critical faculty.
Proposed the sequence of schools: Infant School, Elementary school, Vernacular school, Gymnasium, University
Classical education combined with “mechanical arts” (however, the purpose was not to learn a trade).

8. John Locke (1632-1704) Fellow of Royal Society of London Royal Society
Research by observation , comparison and
experiment.
Interest in manual arts (Moxon’s Treatise on
Mechanical Processes)
Locke: Some Thoughts Concerning Education
Education should fit a person for practical life (trade or profession).
Advocates manual trades but mostly for recreation, physical exercise
Working schools for poor

9. Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
Wrote The Social contract, (French Revolution)
Emile – Revolution in Education
Education from circumstances – Experience is the best teacher (Discovery learning).
Advocated nature study and manual arts
Experiences first, books later

10. Johann Pestalozzi: History
While young witnessed many examples of poverty and ignorance.
The real cause of poverty is intellectual and moral degradation.
Read Emile at age 18
Solution = education

11. Johann Pestalozzi: Philosophy
Learn by doing
Rejected pure word knowledge for natural environment learning.
Systems of instruction which lead to discovery (concrete to abstract)
Advocate of manual training
Easy to complex

12. Phillip von Fellenberg: History
Born in Bern to wealthy and educated parents.
His father introduced him to Pestalozzi.
Left politics and started school in Hofwyl based on Pestalozzi’s ideals combined with his new ideas to make the venture financially successful.
Henry Bernard later said in 1854 that
Hofwyl attracted more attention and had more
influence on education than any institution in
Europe or America.

13. Phillip von Fellenberg: Philosophy
Education as a means of social reform
Education that a person received is dependant upon social class.
Each social class educated in their own sphere / side by side.
Start school slow and small and build on this foundation

14. Phillip von Fellenberg: Hofwyl
Academy School
Wealthy – tuition charged
Science, agriculture, manual labor, physical ed.
This academy became the model used later during the Manual Labor Movement in the U.S.

15. Phillip von Fellenberg: Hofwyl
Farm and Trade School
Aim was to educate poor / until about age 20
10-12 hours of farm labor
3-4 hours of formal instruction
Switching responsibilities
Students given plots of land/sell produce
Upon graduation a young man had acquired a trade, was an intelligent practical farmer and possessed a general education – quite unprecedented among people of his class.
Wehrli – very influential and effective teacher

16. Phillip von Fellenberg: Hofwyl
School of Applied Science
Middle class
Lessons in farm and trade school as well as lesson in the academy
Experimental shop for:
Designing and making farm implements
Destroying weeds
Working the soil
Use of fertilizers
Feeding cattle
Math and science taught directly connected with agriculture

17. Phillip von Fellenberg: Hofwyl
School for Girls
Mostly poor class
Train females for domestic occupation
Mathematics
Garment construction
Speaking, writing, reading, gardening
Religious instruction
Shared responsibilities, hours of relaxation

18. Phillip von Fellenberg: Hofwyl
Normal School
Established for the training of teachers in the principles of Hofwyl so they could establish or teach at other institutions.
Forty-Seven students the first year
Teachers to perform responsibilities with students.
Many visited Hofwyl and were impressed with the educational opportunities it provided
Numerous attempts to duplicate Hofwyl.

19. Morrill Act -1862 Establishment of Agriculture and Mechanical Colleges
…Without excluding other scientific and classical studies…to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanical arts
What was happening in 1865?
Note Civil war didn’t end until 1865 (year of Abraham Lincoln’s death); Civil war started in 1861

20. Calvin Woodward: Manual Training
1879
Engineering Professor/Dean
O’Fallon Polytechnic Institute / Washington University (St. Louis)
Engineering students should construct models to reinforce principles learned in the classroom. (Combining theory and practice).
Woodward’s ideals were championed by industrialists who wanted better trained workers – result – St. Louis Manual Training School of Washington University

21. St. Louis Manual Training School
Boys – 14+
General Education
Some discussion of the name – manual training
Hail to the skillful cunning hand! Hail to the cultured mind! Contending for the world’s command. Here let them be combined
Graduates were very successful
Discontinued after 35 years – local high schools were meeting needs.

22. John Runkle Harvard Graduate President of MIT
Thought that his engineering students should have practical training.
Also thought it was good general education for all students
Searched for instructional method for providing this training
Centennial Exposition – Philadelphia

23. Russian System
Turning point in history of industrial and technical education (end of 19th into the 20th)
Progressivism leading to inclusivisim (NAACP: 1909).
Teaching analysis and systematic instruction of processes and methods
Allowed for the teaching of masses
History
Victor Della Vos
Imperial Technical School of Russia
Train engineers, foremen and chemists

24. Russian System: Purpose
Teach the fundamentals of mechanical arts:
In the least possible time
Instruction to a large number of students at one time – new concept
Systematic acquirement of knowledge – new approach
Measurable student progress – records and assessment

25. Russian System: Principles
Each art has it’s own separate instruction shop – unit shops
Set of tools for each student – individual work stations
Course are arranged in increasing difficulty – ordering
Models made from drawings – operation sheets
Drawing done by students
Student must demonstrate competency before moving on
Instruction must be expert and maintain up-to-date skills

26. Industrial Arts: early 1900’s to 1990’s
Popular Names Associated with The Discipline of Technology Education Included:
Manual Training: 1870’s
Manual Arts: 1890’s
Industrial Arts: early 1900’s to 1990’s
Technology Education: -- Mid 1980’s to Present
1893

27. The Vocational Education Act of 1917 (Smith-Hughes)
[The Smith-Hughes National Vocational Education Act of 1917 promoted vocational agriculture to train people "who have entered upon or who are preparing to enter upon the work of the farm," and provided federal funds for this purpose. As such it is the basis both for the promotion of vocational education, and for its isolation from the rest of the curriculum in most school settings.]

28. National Defense Education Act (1958)
First significant appropriation to vocational education since Smith/Huges
Purpose to keep us ahead of the Soviet Union in the space race (Sputnik – 1957)
Main emphasis math & science education. However, many provisions for technical education
Provided $60 million for the training of technicians and development of area vocational schools.

29. Vocational Education Act 1963
Precipitated by high rates of unemployment and the resulting Manpower Development and Training Act (1961)
Pres. Kennedy voiced a need to modernize vocational education efforts; put together a panel of experts.
This panel reported that:
Majority of youth neglected from the standpoint of occupational preparation
Minority groups especially neglected – deliberate care needed
Vocational education and labor market inseparable
Mobility and urbanization were critical issues
The 1963 act passed by an overwhelming majority
Money from this program encouraged many new curriculum efforts in Industrial and Vocational Education
American Industries Project
Industrial Arts Curriculum Project
Maryland Plan

30. Amendments to Voc Ed Act
The 1963 act amended by another act in 1968 which considerably increased federal appropriations
Provisions for handicapped and disadvantaged
Staff development
In 1972 the act further amended to make industrial arts eligible for federal funding when such programs facilitate the purposes of vocational education.

31. Carl Dewey Perkins Born in Hindman, Kentucky,
Graduated University of Louisville Law School
Became a member of congress in 1949 and continued until his death in 1984
Known as a supporter of Education
Economic Opportunity Act of 1964
Part of Lyndon B Johnson’s Great Society Program
Social programs to promote health, education among poor
Head Start
School Lunch
Adult education
Perkins Loan (Federal Student Loan)
Vocational and Technical Education
The Great Society was a set of domestic programs proposed or enacted in the United States on the initiative of President Lyndon B. Johnson. Two main goals of the Great Society social reforms were the elimination of poverty and racial injustice.

32. Perkin’s Funding
Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act (1984)
Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act (1990)
Carl D Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1998 (Perkins III)
Carl D Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 (Perkins IV)
1) Using the term "career and technical education" instead of "vocational education"
2) Maintaining the Tech Prep program as a separate federal funding stream within the legislation
3) Maintaining state administrative funding at 5 percent of a state’s allocation

33. The Department's Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE) administers the Perkins Act. Under the Perkins Act, federal funds are made available to help provide vocational-technical education programs and services to youth and adults. The vast majority of funds appropriated under the Perkins Act are awarded as grants to state education agencies. These State Basic Grants are allotted to states according to a formula based on states' populations in certain age groups and their per capita income.
Only State Boards for Vocational Education are eligible to apply for State Basic Grants. The distribution of grant funds within a state is directed to priority items established by the state in accordance with an approved state plan for vocational-technical education. Local education agencies and postsecondary institutions are eligible recipients for subgrants.
The total appropriation for Perkins was $1.288 billion dollars in States received these funds in the form of $1.18 billion for their state basic grants and $108 million for Tech Prep. All states receive funds for secondary and postsecondary education.
2011: Amount of Aid Available: $970,705,017 Amount of Aid Available represents the amount of funds awarded to participants in this program. The total may include federal appropriated dollars and institutional matching dollars
Number of New Awards Anticipated: 493,244 Average New Award: $1,968
Range of New Awards: Up to $5,550 per year for undergraduates; up to $8,000 per year for graduate students.

34. The Classic Industrial Arts Definition:
“Industrial arts is a study of the changes made by man in the forms of materials to increase their values, and of the problems of life related to these changes” (Bonser and Mossman, 1923).

35. In 1939, the American Industrial Arts Association (AIAA) was Founded.
Today, it is known as the International Technology Education Association (ITEA).
AIAA 1st Journal

36. 1947: A Curriculum to Reflect Technology
Content:
Power
Transportation
Manufacturing
Construction
Communication
Management
Here we see one of the first uses of the term technology and thoughts about what our content should be.
The content represented the “technology” of the day. For example, in communications, students would study such topics as: letterpress, telegraphy, teletype, television and complete activities where they would: interpret Morse code, tune a transmitter or print a roll of film.
An early use of the term Technology!

37. A Curriculum to Reflect Technology Industrial Arts Defined:
Industrial Arts as a general and fundamental school subject in a free society is concerned with providing experiences that will help persons of all ages and both sexes to profit by the technology, because all are involved as consumers, many as producers, and there are countless recreational opportunities for all William E. Warner (1947)
Industrial arts defined with reference to technology.

38. Before Learning about the Standards for Technological Literacy: Content for the Study of Technology (2000), It is helpful to look at past curriculum developments, trends,
and projects in the field of Technology Education.

39. The Maryland Plan (1950’s) -- Don Maley
A Study of Technology and Industry with their Implications for Man and Society.
Pamphlet
The Maryland Plan was developed in the 1950’s at the University of Maryland under the direction of Dr. Donald Maley.

40. Educate the youth of today for a culture dominated by technology.
Technology: An Intellectual Discipline (1964) Paul DeVore
Educate the youth of today for a culture dominated by technology.
Again, studying “Technology” is the field of industrial arts is talked about.

41. The Industrial Arts Curriculum Project – IACP (Late 1960’s) -- Don Lux and Willis Ray
Development of an in-depth rationale and structure for a body of knowledge called Industrial Technology.
Based on this body of knowledge, the content for Junior High Industrial Arts courses were identified:
The World of Construction (1st Year)
The World of Manufacturing (2nd Year)

42. The World of Construction & The World of Manufacturing
Complete Educational Program:
Textbooks
Laboratory Manuals
Workbooks
Teacher’s Guides
Motion Picture Films & Filmstrips
Models & Demonstration Devices

43. In the 1950 and 60s, students enrolled in Industrial Arts, learned how to “safely” use power and hand tools to make projects.

44. The Standards Project (1978 - 1981)
-- Virginia Polytechnic Institute
10 Standards developed to evaluate Industrial Arts Programs
3 additional guides dealing with: Student Associations, Sex Equity & Special Needs

45. 10 Standard Topics Used to Evaluate Industrial Arts Programs:
Philosophy
Instructional Program
Student Populations Served
Instructional Staff
Administration and Supervision
Support Systems
Instructional Strategies
Public Relations
Safety and Health
Evaluation Process

46. Jackson’s Mill Industrial Arts Curriculum Theory (1981)- J. Hales & J
Jackson’s Mill Industrial Arts Curriculum Theory (1981)- J. Hales & J. Snyder
"Industrial Arts is a comprehensive educational program concerned with technology, its evolution, utilization, and significance; with industry, its organization, personnel, systems, techniques, resources, and products; and their social/cultural impact”
Suggested Curricular Areas
Manufacturing Construction
Communication Transportation

47. A Conceptual Framework for Technology Education (1990)- E. Savage & L
A Conceptual Framework for Technology Education (1990)- E. Savage & L. Sterry
Technology is a body of knowledge and the application of resources using a systematic approach (the technological method) to produce outcomes in response to human needs and wants.
Technological knowledge can be classified as:
Bio-Related Technology
Communication Technology
Production Technology
Transportation Technology

48. The Technology For All Americans Project
(1994 – 1996)
Technology is Human Innovation in Action. It involves the generation of knowledge and processes to develop systems that solve problems and extend human capabilities

49. Developed by the ITEA’s. Technology for All Americans
Developed by the ITEA’s Technology for All Americans Project, the Rationale & Structure provided a new vision for the study of technology.
It made a challenge to all concerned to take action to establish technology education STANDARDS and make technological literacy an educational priority.
Funded by National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and
Administered by ITEA

50. Released in the Spring of 2000 by the International Technology Education Association (ITEA) and its Technology for All Americans Project, the Standards for Technological Literacy: Content for the Study of Technology (STL) were developed to assist curriculum developers as they develop K-12 technology education curricula.

51. Released in 2003 by the International Technology Education Association (ITEA) and its Technology for All Americans Project,
Advancing Excellence in Technological Literacy: Student Assessment, Professional Development, and Program Standards (AETL) identifies criteria for student assessment, professional development, and programs that facilitate student attainment of technological literacy.

53. Interpretation Workshop Notes
Standards
Standards state what “every student should know and be able to do in that area of study.”
Standards offer a common set of expectations for what students should learn in the study of a course or program and provide a basis for developing meaningful, relevant, and articulated curricula.
Standards are not a curriculum, but rather a framework for curriculum development
Continue the Quote on slide with the remainder continued below from “Understanding by Design” by Wiggins & McTighe, 1998, p. 4.
“Curriculum takes content and shapes it into a plan for effective teaching and learning. Thus curriculum is more than a general framework, contrary to many state and district documents on curriculum; it is a specific plan with identified lessons in an appropriate form and sequence for directing teaching.”
Bring home the point that a group of lessons does not make curriculum.

54. Interpretation Workshop Notes
Standards for Technological Literacy has been developed in close cooperation with science, mathematics, and engineering.
National Research Council
National Academy of Engineering
National Science Foundation
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
International Technology Education Association
Those organizations that have supported our work on the standards include:
National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS)
Use the articles on the Gallup Poll as additional information or as you see fit to discuss the issues of support we have in the process of developing standards.
Have participants open their copy of Standards for Technological Literacy or the Executive summary and to follow along as you go over the standards. Explain the structure of the standards and how each standard has benchmarks and related information that is valuable for them to refer to as they begin to interpret and use the standards. Stress the importance that it is imperative that the participants take the time to really read the document…its richness is not in the bold words and sentences, but in the narrations and vignettes that may spark their ideas and help them to see how the standards may come alive in their own particular work.
If no copy is available, provide participants with sections of STL that they may use during the workshop.

55. Standards for Technological Literacy
Interpretation Workshop Notes
Standards for Technological Literacy
Table of Contents: Chapters
Preparing Students for a Technological World
Overview of Technology Content Standards
The Nature of Technology
Technology and Society
Design
Abilities for a Technological World
The Designed World
Call to Action
Standards for Technological Literacy is divided into 8 chapters
Chapters 1, 2, and 8 are basic information and suggestions
Chapters 3, 4, 5, 6, & 7 are the standards…
Refer to your copy of STL as we discuss these major topic areas.

56. Engineering and Technology Education
The Future?
Engineering and Technology Education