ACTE Quality CTE Program of Study Framework is designed to apply to individual, local CTE programs of study spanning secondary and postsecondary education, although it may be adapted to other units of analysis. This voluntary tool can be used for program self-evaluation and improvement and to encourage secondary-postsecondary collaboration.
The framework includes 12 elements and more than 90 criteria that address quality across the various components of a CTE program of study, as well as an additional set of criteria on the system supports that create the conditions for quality on the program level. Members of this group share best practices, ideas, thoughts, reflections, resources and success stories to help colleagues understand and apply the framework criteria and elements.
Safety is always a priority! It is important to keep this in mind when considering work-based learning experiences!
I was able to gain a lot of useful resources in order to review our program, as well as add to!
Being a small, rural school, we are sometimes far away from WBL partnerships besides the few local ones that we have. If needed, students could look into the virtual options in order to get experiences.
This module gave me a lot of great ideas as to how to implement with our students and teachers. I also like the ideas of how to get our younger students thinking about careers and the skills needed to be successful.
I found the example ICAP helpful. We do something less formal currently, it would be good to do something like this more formally with each student.
I loved the idea of how the culinary career can begin with drawing a picture in kindergarten, measuring cookies with different oils, all the way through taking higher level FCS courses and a preapprenticeship in high school. Great visualization of careers.
I got to thinking that we need to define the 6 WBL experiences for junior high age group so that they actually happen.
This module reiterated the importance of application for students learning and the vital role it plays. I feel like our school does a good job of providing real world application opportunites to students.
My current methods are doing well, but adding in a larger journal piece could help the students make better connections.
Many schools have a team that handles this job. In small schools, it's often someone like me - a CTE teacher who gets put into the job, on top of a full teaching schedule.
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