This year, I finally have a broad scope of business and industry individuals on my advisory board and plan to use them to help prop up and guide me towards more industry options for students who complete the Finance program. They have a huge part in what we produce in regard to students ready for the work force.

Knowing what is expected is extremely important to all... the student, parents, faculty of high school, faculty of college. Knowledge is powerful in regard to doing the ork that will be required of the student.

Knowing what is available and what is needed in the local industry should help local BOE's create and modify CTE so that we can have marketable students once they graduate.

Making sure that I am working with other CTE teachers and not against them in regard to vertical alignment. The students need to learn the next step, the next process, not what they have already learned.

Many things in this section I have heard in the last three years> I know that in order to give the students more knowledge, I must continue to learn... so that means that I must make sure that scaffolding is taught, that I ensure that I am working with ML students to increase their knowledge as well. I need to use the strategies that work well with the students that are in my classroom, and that could me that strategies change frequently.

What Is a Program of Study? It is the specific courses needed for their area of learning and designed to give them an idea of what classes and certifications they will need to take in order to be certified in an area.

Post what you've learned about this topic and how you intend to apply it. I will continue to use this as we are beginning to change from a Finance based CTE to a Business based CTE program.

We are attempting to ensure that what we teach is what is needed and we are using CTE advisory committees to do this - utilizing those within the community who can help us decide what is working in the classroom as far as curriculum is concerned. Once we met with those stockholders, we can make revisions and changes to curriculum.

Standards are important, but they are not important if the students and parents do not know what they are. Share/show them and emphasize the reason for the standards.

Be authentic in whatever and however you teach students. Use scenarios, use projects, use the tools that you and your classroom are equipped with.

I will continue to work towards my students being employability ready. Some of our students participate in the 21st century after school program and I think that helps as well.