Vision and Mission

Welcome from the President of the CTEA

From: Nathan Balasubramanian

Thank you for visiting us at CTEA Online. Everyone likes a winner. Technology and technology education afford us the opportunity to make everyone a winner. After reading this message, I hope you will join us in our quest – to rekindle every individual’s desire to innovate, to learn and to share. more...

Mission of the Colorado Technology Education Association

The mission of CTEA is to serve its members in Colorado, the Rocky Mountain Region, and inter-mountain west by providing the latest information and support for Technology Education teachers.  Your association has a long history of leadership to the field, so we invite you to enjoy this web site, use and share resources with others, and become an active member.

Vision of Technology Education in Colorado and the Rocky Mountain Region

The primary goal of a technology education program is the development of technological literacy and capability.  As such, technology education is a program for all people, in all states and counties—males and females, at all grade levels—elementary through secondary, and even post-secondary grades.  Therefore, technology education is often considered the great integrator of other school subjects such as mathematics, science, foreign languages, history and the study of one’s society etc.

The power of a quality technology education program is in its ability to develop people, who possess the necessary skills and knowledge to use, manage, apply, and understand technology.  A technologically literate and capable person, for example, exhibits many characteristics including, but not limited to the following:

(a) Recognizes that solutions to one problem may in fact create significant issues and other problems of great technological and human importance
(b) Possesses the abilities to solve and critically analyze technological based problems
(c) Understands the relationships between technological developments, society, global impact, and the environment and possesses the ability to articulate these relationships to others
(d) Accepts that for every technological solution, there could be significant trade-offs
(e) Solves technological problems while using the tools of science, math and other disciplines.

The product of a technology education program is a technologically literate and capable person.  Each of the members of CTEA are leaders within your individual schools and communities.
It is the product of your leadership in this field, of promoting technological literacy and capability, that in fact gives technology education its competitive edge over all other subject areas.  There is no other school subject that possesses the competitive edge that technology education possesses.  Technological literacy and capability comes about as a result of developing in-depth knowledge in the universals of technology.  The universals of technology—knowledge, processes, and systems—form the content basis for industrial and technology education around the world.