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Combing formative and summative assessments are the key to ensure learning is being understood along the way.

Having a plan is good for Instruction, but being able to break out and really detail the important items will help our students excel.

Nothing is more important than safety, taking the time to do things correctly will help minimize injuries on the job. We must teach best practices.

Its a fine line between being a teacher or friend, we want to be friendly with our students but must also have set guidelines to keep the relationship professional.

Building an effective TAC can be very useful for students as many of the members may want to hire my students.

I learned that being prepared is vital to keep engagement levels up in the class and lab. Have clear expectations and be consistent with upholding those values

I appreciated the Technical, Academic, and 21st century skill distinctions.

21st century feels more like skills or traits that an employer might want to see.  
Academic skills being base knowledge like Reading, Writing, Arithmetics.  Kind of like the concept of trivium.  Grammar, Logic (Dialectics), and Rhetoric.  
Technical skills being topics specific to the career and work.

I often group concepts and understanding, modeling, and doing as 3 different sorts of skills because the assessments look drastically different.  Each really merit there own learning objectives that are different from one another.  Modeling is all math.  Doing is all showing and have… >>>

Context for Modern Practices – Knowing the origins and evolution of CTE allows teachers to understand why current programs, policies, and standards exist. This helps them align their teaching with industry and educational expectations.

CTE has a very different history than what I read here.  Around 1920 it was called vocational education (trades) and didn't get called CTE until the 1980s with the emergence of PCs at a residential level.  At that point the concept of technology was introduced because people needed to start understanding electronics and the trades had to accept a rebranding of terminology.

Much of the legislative narrative about skill based learning and career focus was interesting.

It is important to teach critical thinking skills in the classroom. This elevates the thought process and prepares students for the workplace. 

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