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 WELCOME TO THE 2024/2025 SCHOOL YEAR!

Welcome to Engineering Design and CTE Technology!

My name is Martin Baker, and I teach Engineering Technologies at Southwest Guilford High School. My experience as a licensed technology teacher has strengthened my educational philosophy that learning is a continual process, beginning with students and educators at its very core. In the eyes of every educator, students should be viewed as a valuable and important asset of the learning institutions they attend.

I believe that students should be taught engineering and technology basics using a variety of educational methods that deviate from traditional classrooms. The human mind varies widely from one student to the next, requiring a number of different stimuli to cognitively transform information from working short-term memory to applicable long-term memory storage. By allowing students to learn through different paths to subject mastery, they become more self-reliant and show a much higher aptitude for applying the technological content that they have learned. I believe it is the instructor’s job to facilitate all aspects of this process, offering constructive advice and direct instruction when needed. Furthermore, technology instructors should create a myriad of experiences that utilize sounds, sights, and technological equipment. By experiencing these educational materials, students will not only learn, but will also enjoy learning. With the guidance and supervision of technological educators, students can learn and retain information through the multifaceted approaches of hands-on instruction. While teaching Technology Design and Innovation at Allen Middle School, the classroom implementation of my philosophy was positively received by both students and educators alike.

I ultimately consider education to be a learning experience for everyone involved, myself being no exception. As a technology educator, I feel it is my duty to view my profession as a “work in progress” that will never fully be completed. Every educator should be in a constant state of self-improvement, never tiring to find a new method that will inspire the next generation of great thinkers, artists and “out-of-the-box-problem-solvers”. As the Greek historian Plutarch so correctly noted, “The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”

Parents and students, please feel free to explore my Canvas page. If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to let me know.

Best, 

Martin Baker

Instructor, Engineering Design

bakerm4@gcsnc.com

(336) 819-2970 Ext. 1748

Materials Needed for Class:

Flashdrive - 4GB minimum

Paper and Pencil

Calculator Optional

• 1^st Block -Planning

• 2^nd Block - Engineering Technologies II Honors

• 3^rd Block -  Engineering Technologies II Honors

• 4^th Block  – Engineering Technologies I Honors