From engineering range to Techport school
At child center De Marel, formerly elementary school 't Tweespan, they've thought it through. Technique lessons are not something you do hap snap. That's why it took a school year before the school was ready to become a Techport School. Now that the time has come, they are tackling it structurally right away. All groups are considered and technology is given a fixed place in thematic education.
Leonie Stoel, technology coordinator at De Marel says, "Our first introduction to Techport was in the spring of 2019. At that time, we were just orienting ourselves to new teaching methods and we wanted to think about it carefully before becoming a Techport partner. A school year later (in which the world looks very different also because of corona) we contacted each other again. Techport came personally to hand over the technique range and actually after that it was settled in no time with the planning of the technique activities within our renewed education. The technology range lists the technology activities in the region for each group. So we no longer had to spend hours surfing the Internet to look up suitable technology activities."
Leonie: "We used the previous school year to change teaching methods. We also carefully considered how technology education would fit into this. Techport put us on the right track; we looked very clearly at what would suit our school and our students. This school year we can therefore really start on technique and technology".
As a Techport School, De Marel, too, is now going to pay even better attention to technology lessons and to creating good images in children about technology. And not only with children; teachers are also discovering that engineering and technology are everywhere!