BASIC PRINCIPLE OF TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION

In brief, the following are basic principles of technology education:

1. Technology education must be planned to support and enhance the

socio-economic development goals and programs of the country.
2. Technology education must be designed to meet diverse education
and training needs of people. It must provide general technology
education, technical and vocational education, undergraduate
and graduate programs in various technologies relevant to the
country’s development.
3. Technology education is more effective if the students has adequate
general education to serve as foundation or tool to learn technical
knowledge and skills.
4. General technology education must equip people to acquire
functional technological literacy which is very essential in society.
5. Specialized technology education must prepare people for gainful
employment and or provide upgrading and continuing education
and training for those who are already employed.
6. Technology education must be so designed as to match the
manpower needs of the various sectors of the world of work.
7. Technical and vocational education institution must seek the
cooperation and participation of industry and other sectors with
respect to policy formulation, strategic planning, curriculum
development, on-the-job training, and other mutually beneficial
efforts.
8. Technology education must contribute to the overall development of
the individual as an effective member of his family and society.
9. Technology education must be supported with adequate funds for
operation and maintenance upkeeping and improving facilities,
and for instruction, research and extension services.
10. Quality of technology education must be insured through
effective admission policies, curriculum improvement, faculty
development, improvement of facilities and logistics, instructional
processes, testing and evaluation and management systems.
11. Technology education must be supported with effective
technology teacher education programs which should include short-
term technical/vocational teacher training, pre-service teacher
 training leading to a baccalaureate degree, masteral and doctoral
programs.
12. Technology education must be implemented with adequate
facilities (classrooms, laboratories, equipment, tools, etc.) and
logistics (instructional supplies and materials).
13. Technology education must be carried out by professionally-
trained teachers with industrially and / or occupationally-related
experience.
14. Technology education, to be effective, must keep abreast with
new trends, developments and technologies.
15. Technology education, to be effective, must be supported with
research and development.
16. Technology education must provide extension education for
those who are out-of-school, unemployed, underemployed and others
who are desirous to develop skills for employment.

BRIEF SUMMARY

EDUCATION is the most efficient system of equipping people with

knowledge, skills and attitudes essentials for effective membership in
society. It consists of general an specialized education which are
acquired, through formal, non-formal or informal schemes. A major sub-
system of education dealing with the technological aspects of the
environment is technology education. It deals with the development of
technical skills, knowledge and attitudes needed to enter and/or progress
in the world of work or prepare people for productive and meaningful
citizenship. In its general form, technology education seeks to help people
become technology-literates and equips them with the basic skills,
knowledge and understanding the scope,materials,equipment, processes,
products, problems, and development in the world of work. In its
specialized form, technology education seeks to prepare people for work,
either as skilled worker, technician, technologist, or technology teacher
and specialist.as such is offered in all levels of education in a broad
spectrum of programs and specialization to help address the country’s
needs for various types of technical manpower and provide broader
educational opportunities for people and greater flexibility in the
development of the country’s human resources.