Tech-Design Training System
Career exploration presents related professions and provides opportunities for your students to:
- Discover their strengths and interests
- Learn how to prepare for certain types of careers.
Maximize Learning Effectiveness with Online Resources
With Tech-Design's online resources, your students will improve their math and language skills as they expand and reinforce their module-specific learning.
- Internet Resource provides links to related web sites to assist with students' learning and expand their knowledge.
- Timelines present the history of significant developments and a glance at our rapidly changing future.
- Impacts Resource presents cultural, economic, environmental, and social issues relating to each module.
- Careers Resource provides career recommendations, including educational requirements and duties, based on students' responses to an interest survey.
- Student Journal helps students learn more effectively by saving notes related to their studies, and facilitates communication between you and your students.
- Academic Resource Package includes an encyclopedia and math skills program to further assist with and enhance learning. **Please note that the Encarta® encyclopedia software is on DVD only.
Build Technological Literacy and a Lot More
Start your Tech-Design technology program on a strong note with the "Introduction to Technology" module. Or, if you are focusing on Information Technology, begin with "IT Fundamentals." Both of these introductory modules provide students with a foundation to ensure their success throughout the curriculum. For details, please click here for "Introduction to Technology" or here for "IT Fundamentals."
Gain a True Sense of Tech-Design's Impact with Free Demos
Live-action demonstrations on CD-ROM, featuring recordings of multimedia elements and videos of students using the software and equipment, are available for Tech-Design technology and FACS modules. Each demo also features a dynamic presentation of the GradePoint 2020™ electronic classroom-management and gradebook system.
To request a copy of either Tech-Design demo, please click here. For details on GradePoint 2020, please click here.
Achieve Any Instructional Goal within Any Budget
The flexible design of the entire Tech-Design curriculum helps you maximize each of your student's skills and interests. Plus, many options are available to suit any time frame, budget and classroom configuration.
Lab-Volt offers furniture to help you create an attractive, functional classroom environment. You can access descriptions of furniture from any pages describing the Tech-Design modules, which are listed in Associated Products.