Collaboration for Career and Technical Education

Collaboration for Career and Technical Education
Author: Wendy Custable
Publisher:
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2020-05-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9781949539677

All teachers--including career and technical education (CTE) teachers--play a vital role in building a thriving PLC. In this practical resource, the authors explicitly outline how to improve teaching and learning by integrating PLC best practices into CTE programs. Teams of CTE educators will learn how to clarify their purpose, discover their common denominators, and incorporate powerful collaborative processes into their daily work. Use this resource to learn the vital strategies necessary for building and improving teams: Become familiar with the common issues that prevent CTE educators from engaging in the collaborative PLC process. Learn why and how the PLC process benefits both CTE educators and students. Learn how CTE educators can create collaborative programs that are tailored toward CTE fields of study. Receive professional guidance and concrete, achievable teaching strategies for creating an effective PLC process. Access a checklist of crucial action steps for career tech teams at the end of each chapter. Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Establishing a Collaborative Culture Chapter 2: Forming Collaborative Teams Chapter 3: Setting Up the Logistics of Teamwork Chapter 4: Identifying Essential Learnings and Developing CTE Curriculum Chapter 5: Designing Instruction and Assessments Chapter 6: Reflecting on Data Chapter 7: Responding to Student Learning Epilogue: Turning Parking Spaces Into Rest Spaces Appendix A: Glossary of Terms Appendix B: Reproducibles

Technology in Education

Technology in Education
Author: Raymond S. Nickerson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2013-05-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136463739

Some of today's educational experts were asked to envision the year 2020, when technology has assumed a major role in elementary and secondary education. The informed conjecture that followed is contained in this volume; contributors offer visions of the future as well as specific steps that could turn those visions into realities. Innovative ideas for research, development, hardware, software, teacher training, technical assistance, organizational and cultural change are offered as a means to illuminate the potential role of technology in the educational systems of tomorrow. Technology in Education is a thought-provoking statement of what can and should be done to advance the application of technology to education over the next few decades. As such, it should be read by all researchers and professionals in educational technology.

Leading Technology-rich Schools

Leading Technology-rich Schools
Author: Barbara B. Levin
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2012-05-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0807753343

This timely book shows how award-winning secondary schools and districts are successfully using technology and making systemic changes to increase student engagement, improve achievement, and re-invigorate the teaching and learning process. Through in-depth case studies, we see how experienced school and district leaders use technology in curricular, administrative, and analytical ways to meet the needs of 21st-century learners, educators, and communities. These cases reveal important details addressed by the leadership of these schools and districts that go beyond what they did with technology to include changes in school culture, curriculum and teaching, uses of assessment data, financial considerations, infrastructure, and involvement with the community.

Teaching English Language Learners in Career and Technical Education Programs

Teaching English Language Learners in Career and Technical Education Programs
Author: Victor M. Hernández-Gantes
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2008-10-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135907439

Exploring the unique challenges of vocational education, this book provides simple and straightforward advice on how to teach English Language Learners in the classroom, in the laboratory or workshop, and in work-based learning settings.

Technical and Vocational Teacher Education and Training in International and Development Co-Operation

Technical and Vocational Teacher Education and Training in International and Development Co-Operation
Author: Frank Bünning
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022
Genre:
ISBN: 9789811664755

This book deals with teacher training for vocational education and training. In individual chapters next to the positions of relevant international organizations, donors and development banks, it also covers selected countries in their ways of shaping of Technical Vocational Education and Training and teacher training. The structure of the book aims at two objectives: To outline positions of important stakeholders of the international Technical Vocational Education and Training policies and international cooperation in TVET teacher training. To discuss the current status of Technical Vocational Education and Training and teacher training in selected countries, from developing countries, countries with emerging economies to industrialized countries. The book is meant to create a platform that supports a reference concept within international cooperation for the further development of Technical Vocational Education and Training and teacher training up to a higher quality and performance.

Special Populations in Career and Technical Education

Special Populations in Career and Technical Education
Author: Michelle Sarkees-Wircenski
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Career education
ISBN: 9780826940070

This comprehensive new textbook contains 12 chapters covering all aspects of integrating learners from special populations into career and technical education programs. Extensive text and graphics cover such topics as recent legislation, identification of special population learners, assessment practices, instructional delivery strategies, individualized education programs (IEPs), and curriculum modification. Each chapter begins with objectives and key terms and ends with self-assessment questions and activities. Special Populations in Career and Technical Education highlights the latest federal legislation and its impact upon programs for learners from special populations. The text also covers methods for accommodating and including learners in career and technical education programs. Valuable sample forms are included on the CD-ROM for administrating special population programs.Special Populations in Career and Technical Education CD-ROM is designed as a self-study aid to enhance content included in the book. It includes Quick Quizzes, an interactive Glossary, and reference material. The Quick Quizzes provide a thorough review of topics covered in the chapters. Each chapter Quick Quiz has 10 questions with icons linked to the textbook reference and Glossary for additional information about the question. The interactive Glossary provides a helpful reference to key terms included in the text. The reference material button accesses links to web sites that contain useful related material.

International Handbook of Technology Education

International Handbook of Technology Education
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 548
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9087901046

This first volume in the International Technology Education Series offers a unique, worldwide collection of national surveys into the developments of Technology Education in the past two decades.

Technical Education Series

Technical Education Series
Author: National Joint Industrial Council for the Flour Milling Industry
Publisher:
Total Pages: 844
Release: 1926
Genre: Flour mills
ISBN: