Standards based - Content standards were designed to encourage the highest achievement of every student, by defining the knowledge, concepts, and skills that students should acquire at each grade level.
Coherent Sequence of Courses
Capstone Course with WBL
Teaching Strategies – Authentic Applications of Academics:
Speaker’s Bureau - More than just sharing what you do for a living, the Alliance for Education's Speakers Bureau helps connect professionals such as yourself with specific schools within one of the three regions of the county. Speakers undergo a short training process that works to align the professional's chosen topic with the academic content being covered in the classroom. In this way, students not only understand the work that you do, but also learn the relevance of the academic content being covered
Field Studies - students and teachers visit the work site and observe/participate in the application of academics.
Problem-Project Based Learning - Problem/Project-based learning (PBL) is a total approach to education that combines rigorous academic content with real world applications. The collaborative process between a teacher and business/labor/community partners helps create an environment in which students must solve real problems encountered in life or on the job. This instructional technique has been shown to promote the acquisition of critical knowledge, problem solving proficiency, self-directed learning strategies, and team participation skills.
Formal Articulation with Post –Secondary Institutions/Training Providers
Formal Articulation in Place – Articulation is a planned process linking two or more education systems to help students make a smooth transition from the secondary level of occupational or academic training to the two or four year post secondary level without experiencing a delay or duplication of learning.
Articulation is generally considered as a systematic process that will permit students to move from one course, program, or educational level to the next without loss of time or resources. A guiding principle of articulation is that no student should be required to repeat the same course content for which credit was received.
Victor Valley Community College http://www.vvc.edu/offices/tech-prep/
Integration of CTE and Academic Content Standards – purpose is to provide sequenced curricular pathways that include career-related and academic content standards to prepare students for success in postsecondary education, career, and lifelong learning.
Technological Literacy
www.iteaconnect.org/TAA/PDFs/Execsum.pdf
A-G Credit, Dual Enrollment, or College Credit
Dual Enrollment – is a program of study allowing high school students to simultaneously earn credits toward a high school diploma and a postsecondary degree or certificate. Written agreements formalize programs of study, the transfer of academic and vocational credits among institutions, and the role of secondary and postsecondary instructors.
Student Leadership Organization (ex: HOSA; FFA; FHA; HERO, DECA; FBLA; VICA)
Program Certification
CareerInfoNet (certification finder)
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