Best Practices

This section features pedagogy, links to standards, and highlights model Career and Technical programs.

TOP PICKS    PEDAGOGY    LINKING TO STANDARDS    MODEL C*TEC PROGRAMS    OTHER

TOP PICKS
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InTime : Integrating  New Technologies into the Methods of Education InTime enables educators to watch online video vignettes of PreK-12 teachers from various grades and subjects integrating technology into their classrooms using numerous teaching strategies.  Source: University of Northern Iowa

 Red hot site!NCCTE Standards Search Academic and skill standards are being developed across the country to help educators determine where to set the bar to measure student performance. Finding these standards documents for many disciplines and occupational fields can be challenging. This repository of standards has been created by the National Dissemination Center for Career and Technical Education to help you find the information you need.

Red hot site!Research and Curriculum Unit - Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment (RCU CIA) Research/standards-based curriculum aligned with Mississippi Career Planning and Assessment System (MS-CPAS). Source: Mississippi Dept. of Education.

PEDAGOGY
High Schools that Work Performance standards and principles of teaching. Source: SREB

Intime Career and Technical Pedagogy  Several checklists and guidelines for good teaching and the latest in pedagogy. Source: InTime

LINKING TO STANDARDS
While nearly all states have made considerable progress in designing and implementing standards and assessments in core academic subjects, progress has been somewhat slower in developing similar standards and assessments for vocational education programs and courses.

NCCTE Standards Search Academic and skill standards are being developed across the country to help educators determine where to set the bar to measure student performance. Finding these standards documents for many disciplines and occupational fields can be challenging. This repository of standards has been created by the National Dissemination Center for Career and Technical Education to help you find the information you need.

U.S. Dept of Education OVAE This page offers an overview of research and information to assist states with the development of standards and assessments. Source: OVAE

MODEL C*TEC PROGRAMS
Webcasts with Experts Webcasts via the NCCTE Web-board. The interactive chat sessions will consist of conversations between experts and policymakers, decision-makers, CTE professionals, and others, regarding career and technical education issues.

Exemplary and Promising Programs 2002 The purpose of the National Dissemination Center’s Sharing and Celebrating Exemplary and Promising Career and Technical Education Programs project was to identify successful CTE programs at the secondary and postsecondary levels and to disseminate information about outstanding practices used by those sites.

Red hot site!InTime : Integrating  New Technologies into the Methods of Education  InTime enables educators to watch online video vignettes of PreK-12 teachers from various grades and subjects integrate technology into their classrooms using numerous teaching strategies.  Source: University of Northern Iowa

National Research and Dissemination Centers for Career and Technical Education The Consortium partners are committed to providing innovative approaches to improving the practice of career and technical education at local, state, and national levels leading to improved student achievement.

Vocational Learning This site offers support for the United Kingdom Vocational Learning Programs. Access their rich databank of resources, materials and publications and to find out about other services they provide.

George Lucas Educational Foundation: School-to-Career  Some exciting examples of School-to-Work programs. Source: GLEF

 

Best Practices for CIS - Alaska
Building Bridges to College - Contextualized Ed PDF
Jobs for the Future
Office of Innovation - OII
STW Effective Examples- New York
Workforce Strategy Publications

 

OTHER
Career Tech Champions The Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education wants you to see the success that students have had through Career and Technical Education. These stories are a "must read."

ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education  On this archived ERIC site, find several topics of interest to this field. (ERIC/ACVE)

Kathy Schrock’s Guide to Vocational and Technical Education An eclectic list of topics of interest and best practice sites around the country. Source: Discovery

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