Early Childhood Ed: Tykes, Testing, and (Future) Teachers
This post was first published in 2011. At the time, I was a member of our district’s CTE Instructional Support team. Since then, I returned to my own academic classroom, where I’ve spent the past three+ years. Now, with a wish to return to CTE, I’m sharing an answer to the question I get from fellow academic teachers in my current high school: What’s Career and Technical Education? Isn’t that for at-risk kids? My answer: No way! It’s definitely not your father’s shop class anymore. 🙂 -> -> -> -> Remix debut: November 2014 Rigor + Relevance + Relationships What do you get when all three are in balance?…
Classroom 411: An Interactive Training Session Leads to New Ideas
Recently, a dedicated group of twenty educators and industry experts from Valencia Community College, Orange County Public Schools (Career and Technical Education), and Osceola County Public Schools (Career & Technical Education) met on a Saturday to participate in a lively staff development training session that explored ways to build “classroom community” regardless of the environment: live, online, or hybrid, and more importantly, why to do so. With coffee in hand and preworkshop self-assessments completed, participants arrived for the four-hour session that promised discussion, interaction, and exploring ways to learn about themselves and their students ~ all in an effort to build nurturing, successful, effective learning experiences. Though seasoned in their industry experience, and for most, in their…
