Tech Education
Courses offered
Draw / metal 7th. gd.
Technology Education 8th. gd.
Technology Education 9th. gd.
Power Lab 1-3 grades 10 - 12.
Manufacturing & Construction 1-3 grades 10 - 12.
Engineering Design grades 10 - 12.
Teacher Information
Mr. Michael Commero Email Michael Commero
Mr. Jay Zeigler Email Jay Zeigler
Technology & Engineering Education Association of Pennsylvania
What is Technology Education?
The future belongs to young people who know where the knowledge is, how to get it, how to think about it, and how to turn it into better work, better products, better lives.
Rexford Brown, Executive Director
P.S. 1 Charter School and Urban Learning Communities, Inc.
Technology Education is human innovation in action. It involves the generation of knowledge and processes to develop systems that solve problems and extend human capabilities. It's goals is to provide technological literacy to all students, including all students who traditionally have not been served by technology programs.
As a society, we are becoming increasingly dependant on technology. In order to become informed and responsible decision-makers, students must understand the ways in which technology may be used to change and control our environment, and it’s effect on humanity and the world. In order to understand technology education, we must establish “What exactly is technology?” Stemming from the Greek work “techne,” meaning art or craft, technology literally means the act of making or crafting. Broadly speaking, technology is how people modify the natural world to suit their own purposes. Technology Education has evolved over the past fifteen to twenty years from Industrial Arts programs, and is just beginning to establish a new identity.
Industrial Arts vs. Technology Education
Technology Education vs. Educational Technology