As a career and technical education professional, you understand the importance of preparing youth and adults for high-skill, in-demand careers. You're responsible for ensuring that your curriculum and teaching meet the needs of your students. This group is for CTE teachers who aspire to discuss and master the competencies necessary for exemplary teaching performance to enhance student learning outcomes. Group members share best practices, ideas, thoughts, reflections, and resources to help us better serve students.
The word agency refers to people’s capacity to make choices and take action on their own behalf. We want students to internalize that they do have the ability to problem solve and complete challenges.
When we use individual white boards or post-it notes for students to write their response, we know when everyone has had an equal time to respond. Everyone gets an equal thinking opportunity.
When students are curious, they naturally start to ask questions. As more and more people ask questions, the curiosity builds, and questions become more complex and lead to hypothesis generating. Ask open-ended questions in class
It’s important to work to gradually replace a reliance on grades with an emphasis on qualitative, meaningful assessments during productive talk activities. Have students participate more readily in productive talk.
One way to evaluate the various career areas is to develop a pros and cons list about the career. Have students simulate this experience by providing them with a list of careers to research and having them prioritize the career matches based on the information they find.
In the retention stage, professional development helps students to stay curious and engaged with their positions, preventing boredom and stagnation. There is some much to learn about “professionalism”. Have students write emails.
In the commitment stage, it’s important to keep in mind that, at this stage in their life, some students have never completed a job application and others have completed several. Have student fill out fictitious application in class.
The investigative stage is a time for students to really get a good feel for the career and get a first-person perspective on its requirements and expectations. There should be a ton of research conducted during this phase.
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It has motivated me to do better for my students. Teamwork is very critical for understanding everyones view on things. It exposes weaknesses and makes students feel acomplished when completing a task together. Critical thinking and problem skills being applied takes practice.
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