Technology & Engineering Education, BSED

Technology & Engineering Education, BS

Central to Using Technology to Improve Life.

Central’s BSEd in Technology & Engineering Education provides hands-on, problem-based learning. The program prepares graduates to teach technology & engineering in Connecticut with an emphasis on STEM related topics. By developing technological literacy, students gain the knowledge and experiences to make decisions about technology ranging from their choices as consumers to questions about public policy.

Graduates are prepared to teach in elementary, middle, secondary, and adult Technology & Engineering program in Connecticut and throughout the United States.

Program Features

  • Attend full- or part-time
  • Small class sizes
  • Classes held on-campus
  • Access to new, state-of-the-art laboratories and technology
  • Attendance and participation in regional and national conferences and competitions
  • Dedicated faculty are experts in their field
  • Financial aid and scholarships available
  • Free on-campus child care available

 Did You Know?

The prospects for students graduating with a degree in Technology & Engineering Education are excellent. The job placement rate of Central Technology and Engineering since 2001 is nearly 100%.

 

Learning Outcomes

  • Teach and assess technology and engineering conceptual knowledge and pedagogy, as outlined in the Standards for Technological and Engineering Literacy.
  • Apply their understanding of each child’s learning needs, individual differences, and diverse families, cultures, and communities to promote engineering design skills, technical skills, and conceptual understanding in technology and engineering.
  • Demonstrate an ability to design and adapt rigorous problem-based curricula which require students to research, design, test, and redesign solutions to ill-defined problems, and which meaningfully integrate studies of mathematics, science, engineering, technology, and other subjects as outlined in the Standards for Technological and Engineering Literacy.
  • Demonstrate an ability to adjust instructional approaches in response to differing learning styles; and to manage multiple, disparate student activities simultaneously.
  • Plan and maintain a safe, positive, flexible, and age-appropriate technology and engineering learning environment which promotes intellectual risk-taking, inquiry, and individual expression.
  • Demonstrate responsibility for their own continued professional growth as a technology and engineering educator.
  • Design and administer assessments which promote continuous reflection and improvement of teaching and learning, and which vary among conceptual learning, technical skills, and design skills.