Organized jointly by the École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), the Conseil des doyens et doyennes d’ingénierie du Québec (CODIQ) and CIRANO.
The massive and very varied use of technologies, the increasingly important place and role of creative processes in their design require a careful rethinking of technology training courses. In addition to basic skills in literacy, numeracy and use of technologies, training that prepares students for the recognition and analysis of technological problems, collaborative work and mastery of the skills inherent to the process design is now essential to evolve in an increasingly technological society.
However, very recently, Minister Bernard Drainville announced the review of the science and technology curriculum in Quebec for primary and secondary education which dates back more than twenty years. As part of a day of reflection, CIRANO and ÉTS invited you to consider the following questions:
- Does technology education meet the current needs of society ?
- Are teachers prepared to adequately teach technology ?
- Are the educational materials offered to Quebec teachers adequate ?
- Does current teaching arouse students’ interest in studying technology-related careers ?
This day, in addition to allowing people involved in the field to express themselves and share, supported the research work underway at CIRANO. CIRANO researcher and Fellow Annie Savard, and her team are leading a project entitled “Training of primary and secondary teachers in Technological Education: Current situation and recommendations”.
Round tables around five themes*
- Effective practices in technology teaching (primary and secondary)
- Offering technology education resources
- Continuing training of teachers
- Technology education training: an engineering perspective
- Public policies and government orientations
*With the participation of the AESTQ, the École en Réseau, the Technoscience Network, teachers and educational advisors from School Service Centers and university and government experts.
