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Classroom Tools

Explore the links on this page to find samples of student work, assessments, teaching guides, and other tools to assist in the Career and Technical classroom.

TOP PICK ASSESSMENT TOOLS PORTFOLIOS SERVICE LEARNING TEACHER GUIDES VIRTUAL CLASSROOM TOOLS EXEMPLARY LESSON PLANS OTHER

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Career-Learning Café Bill Law's Career-Learning Café is for personal advisers, careers advisers, teachers, and lecturers in the careers-work and education-for-citizenship field.

ASSESSMENT TOOLS
NCCER Skills Assessments Several assessments are available for downloading.

Education Week's Assessment Page. Lays out the general issues surrounding assessment, points to related articles from their archives, and directs readers to additional resources. You must be a registered user to access this page.

ERIC Clearinghouse. Search ERIC to find research, articles, reports, and other resources for various types of assessments and evaluation methods.

The Role of Classroom Assessment in Teaching and Learning. Discusses how teachers can use assessment to strengthen the teaching and learning process. From the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, Student Testing (CRESST)

PORTFOLIOS
Portfolio Library Examples Source: Martin Kimeldorf

Student Portfolio Examples A list of student portfolio examples by grade level. Source: Joyce Morris

SERVICE LEARNING
A teaching strategy used to actively engage students in their own educations through experiential learning in course-relevant contexts. It fosters lifelong connections between students, their communities, and the world outside the classroom.

National Service Learning Clearinghouse
Constitutional Rights Foundation
Corporation for National Service
Education Commission of the States
Iowa Service Learning
National Youth Leadership Council (NYLC)
Northwest Regional Labs
Points of Light Foundation
The EXCHANGE for Service-Learning

TEACHER GUIDES AND CURRICULA PLANNING TOOLS
See Career Pathways in the FutureFocus section for specific curricula by pathway.

Career Development and Occupational Core Curriculum The Career Development and Occupational Studies (CDOS) Resource Guide with Core Curriculum is a companion document to the CDOS learning standards Source: University of New York

CTE Curriculum Search - Task Lists A searchable database for curricula in specific CTE areas. Source: Virginia CTE Resource Center

Program Standards and Guides and Curricula Resources From the state of Georgia. Source: GA Dept. of Education

VIRTUAL CLASSROOM TOOLS
MOIS is licensed by Michigan Virtual University to develop and deliver a wide variety of career development products for Kindergarten through employment. MVU provides career guidance and development information in many forms, including workbooks, games, videos, Web sites, and CD-ROM. Be sure to try the MyDreamExplorer Demo!

EXEMPLARY LESSON PLANS
Lessons are also available in the FutureFocus section and the Career Exploration section of C*TEC

Area 10 School-to-Work Lessons A compilation of several career and technical lesson plans. Source: Area 10, Iowa

The Educator's Reference Desk: Vocational Lesson Plans (Teachers K-12) Formerly Ask Eric, this resource offers many links to lessons. Source: US Department of Education

CEEE GirlTECH TeacherTECH teachers designed these lesson plans to take full advantage of Internet resources and to teach mathematics and science concepts in new and exciting ways. Source: CEEE

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

Utah: Technology, Life and Careers Curriculum Resources A comprehensive group of business, career planning, agricultural and other subject lessons. Source: UEN

OTHER
Lab Safety in Vocational Education An older document, 1993, published by the Journal of Agriculture Education, that still has bearing on safety in the classroom.

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Last Updated: Monday, October 10, 2005