Introduction

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Technology and Engineering Standards

The CTE-S (TEC) Technology and Engineering Standards course in Learnbps is Bismarck Public School District's current progress on prioritizing and deconstructing standards to provide a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn. The standards are designed to provide guidance so teachers and parents know what they need to do to help students. Plus help students reflect on the knowledge and skills that they need for success.

Grade Levels
Domains
Identifier Explanation

TEC-MS.4.3.04

The Bismarck Public School District Standards-Based Progress Report displays grades at the concept level. Therefore Bismarck Public School District has modified the North Dakota DPI Identifiers to fit into our student information system PowerSchool for Standards-Based grading. Above is a CTE-Standards TEC identifier with smaller muted text showing the addition  to the identifier that are the components that BPS adds to the State code.

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TEC-MS.4.04

Subject

TEC Technology and Engineering
In a word, Technology Education is about Innovation!
It is about how people think and how to apply
technologysolutions to the problems facing society.
The aim is to solve problems and create opportunities
within a realistic context.

Grade Level

Middle School
The grade levels address what students should know
and be able to do in the area of Social Studies education
by the end of grades
-K2 for (1) PreK-2
-35 for (2) Grades 3-5
-MS for (3) Grades 6-8
-HS for (4) Grades 9-12

Domain

The overarching domain across all levels are
  • 1: Parent Standard 1 - Nature and Characteristics of Technology and Engineering
  • 2: Parent Standard 2 - Core Concepts of Technology and Engineering
  • 3: Parent Standard 3 - Integration of Knowledge, Technologies, and Practices
  • 4: Parent Standard 4 - Impact of Technology
  • 5: Parent Standard 5 - Influence of Society on Technological Development
  • 6: Parent Standard 6 - History of Technology
  • 7: Parent Standard 7 - Design in Technology and Engineering Education
  • 8: Parent Standard 8 - Applying, Maintaining, and Assessing Technological Products and Systems

Standard.Competency

A statement of what students should know
and be able to do at specified grade levels.

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TEC-MS.4.04 Analyze examples of technologies that have changed the way people think, interact, and communicate.
Note how the identifiers auto-link to the standards global glossaries.

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4.3.4

Standards

The overarching standards across all levels are
  • 1: Parent Standard 1 - Nature and Characteristics of Technology and Engineering
  • 2: Parent Standard 2 - Core Concepts of Technology and Engineering
  • 3: Parent Standard 3 - Integration of Knowledge, Technologies, and Practices
  • 4: Parent Standard 4 - Impact of Technology
  • 5: Parent Standard 5 - Influence of Society on Technological Development
  • 6: Parent Standard 6 - History of Technology
  • 7: Parent Standard 7 - Design in Technology and Engineering Education
  • 8: Parent Standard 8 - Applying, Maintaining, and Assessing Technological Products and Systems

Grade Level

Middle School
The grade levels address what students should know
and be able to do in the area of Social Studies education
by the end of grades
1 are PreK-2 (K2)
2 are Grades 3-5 (35)
3 are Grades 6-8 (MS)
4 are Grades 9-12 (HS)

Competency

A statement of what students should know
and be able to do at specified grade levels.

click on the identifier components for more explanations

State individual grade-specific standards can be identified by their Domain, grade, and standard so that 4.3.4 for example, stands for Standard, Grade, and competence 4.

Technology and Engineering
Education Practices

The technology and engineering practices comprise abilities and disposition that are fundamental to student success. These practices help students engage with the human-designed products, systems and processes we use to satisfy our needs and wants.

TEP-1: Systems Thinking refers to the understanding that technologies contain interconnected components and that these technologies interact with the environments in which they operate and includes the universal systems model.

TEP-2: Creativity is the use of investigation, imagination, innovative thinking and physical skills to accomplish goals.

TEP-3: Making and Doing are at the heart of what make technology & engineering education so different from other fields. Students design, model, build and use technical products and systems.

TEP-4: Critical Thinking involves questioning, logical thinking, reasoning and elaboration in the process of making informed decisions. It also involves analytical thinking; an important component.

TEP-5: Optimism refers to a commitment to finding better solutions to design challenges through experimentation, modeling and adaptation. It reflects a positive view as well as persistence in looking for solutions to technological problems and challenges.

TEP-6: Collaboration refers to having the perspective, knowledge, capabilities and willingness to seek out and include team members when working on design challenges.

TEP-7: Communication in technology and engineering can be either to define problems by gaining an understanding of the wants and needs of the user of technology or as a means of developing and explaining choices made in the design process.

TEP-8: Attention to Ethics is at the core of being a human in society. Attention to ethics means focusing on the impact of technological products, systems and process on others and on the environment. Students should evaluate risks and consider trade-offs in their decision making.

Technology and Engineering
Education Contexts

The technology and engineering contexts are grouped into eight areas that broadly represent the breadth of technological activity. Contexts are vehicles for teaching and applying core disciplinary standards and practices.

TEC-1: Computation, Automation, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

TEC-2: Material Conversion and Processing

TEC-3: Transportation and Logistics

TEC-4: Energy and Power

TEC-5: Information and Communication

TEC-6: The Built Environment

TEC-7: Medical and Health-Related Technologies

TEC-8: Agricultural and Biological Technologies