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.
Understanding that students and parents need clear boundaries and that your held to a higher standard due to the position of trust with the public you have accepted.
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Learning about the orgins of CTE and how the frameworks have been developed to get students engaged in learning.
Remembering that there will be a dip at the start of the group as they figure out roles and how to work off each others strengths is huge. It will help to be present to minimize this part of a group work time.
Critical thinking is very important for students now. Analytical skills, Communication, Creativity, and Open-mindedness are huge for students to become career ready in any field.
This section reminded me to focus on the process not the outcome. Working with students that have a baseline of very little and not worried if we aren't perfect to start but that we grew over our time together.
I think focusing on students getting the answers and understanding is vital for what we want to accomplish as teachers.
I learned that having students share their knowledge and hear from their peers helps to create a better way of learning and developing stronger ideas and knowledge for the student.
I learned the importance of productive talking. Also different ways to engage those classes to what help them with motivation to participate in the class.
I think one that gets overlooked a lot is the self-care. In the times of tough work in trauma taking time that we as educators need can help us to best serve students.
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Career Ed Lounge is embedded in over eighty professional development portals serving the career and technical education community. Performance Groups in the Lounge are integrated with related learning opportunities offered on these portals. With a few exceptions, Performance Groups are also publicly available to any member of the Lounge to maximize peer-to-peer learning and performance outcomes.