Teaching Youngsters with Technology Elementary education program promotes technology in the classroom One of Indiana Tech’s newest degree programs will follow in the footsteps of its predecessors – taking a growing career field and introducing students to innovative ways to succeed in that field.
The elementary education program debuting this fall will carve a niche among similar collegiate programs, using Tech’s strength in technology to make a difference in tomorrow’s classroom. Educating today’s young minds means preparing them earlier for interacting and excelling in our global and high-tech society. While reading, writing, and arithmetic are still extremely important areas of teaching, learning use of technology can be just as valid. Compare today to when you were in elementary school. How much did our society rely on technology then? Did you have the Internet or computers? Perhaps not. What would today’s world be without them? The elementary education program prepares graduates to become certified K-6 teachers. Graduates will also be able to pursue an endorsement in Exceptional Needs, allowing graduates the option to teach children with special needs. Students in the program will be exposed to applications of technology that they can utilize in the classroom. These uses of technology, such as interactive software programs, will be effective tools in promoting and enhancing learning. The design of this new program will also embrace the university’s commitment to diversity. Elementary education students will learn to respect and understand others of different races, beliefs, and cultures by immersing them in rural and urban teaching settings. Students are currently being accepted into the pre-education courses this fall and the Teacher Education Component will begin in fall of 2007.
Indiana Tech TRENDS | Summer 2006