Announcing the 2010 ACTE Conference in Las Vegas
Teachers’ Corner – new to the NOCTI website Teachers need tools to help prepare students for NOCTI assessments. Easy access to these tools and information gives teachers what they need to coach students for success on the NOCTI. Links to information on the content of NOCTI assessments (blueprints), helpful study materials, the schedule of free web seminars for teachers, and recordings of presentations that can be viewed anytime are featured in the Teachers’ Corner. Check back often as new information is added to support and equip teachers for student success!
2010 Performance Improvement Quarterly Web Seminars Please plan to attend one or all of the Web Seminars listed below. Each seminar will be held on a Tuesday at 2:00 pm Eastern Standard Time. There is no cost to attend. Please register for the seminar(s) by emailing Laura Leach at laura.leach@nocti.org . Connection information will be sent upon registration. This is an excellent professional development opportunity for you and your colleagues! Feel free to call or email if you have questions. Tuesday, April 27, 2010 Applying A ‘Systems’ Approach To Instructional Design In CTE Today’s globally competitive companies foster the cross-functional knowledge skills of their employees and identify system-level problems early. The key to the success for these companies is to adopt a systems approach to instruction and training. The systems approach is a design philosophy that requires students to learn the parts of the system through an examination of the big picture. This web seminar will explain the systems approach and provide examples of how to implement it in all areas of CTE.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010 The National Research Center For CTE … ‘The Use Of Assessment Data’ How CTE educators use technical assessment data to improve program curriculum and identify individual/group instruction needs is of particular interest to the National Research Center for CTE. How specific types of professional development may have been provided, educators’ perception of the effectiveness of this training and finally, what types of professional development they would consider most effective for the future is vital to improving student achievement. Findings from the research and insights from the literature will be discussed, as well as implications for professional development that will be created will be part of this unique web seminar.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 Bridging The Gap Between CTE and Academics Curriculum integration has long been a Perkins requirement, yet is little understood. Learn the key steps used to identify, deliver, assess, and document the integrated core academic content in CTE programs at a level that would meet rigorous state and national core academic standards in mathematics and science that will bridge the ‘gap’ between CTE and Academics.
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