Belinda Cole, Ed.D. Facilitator West Sound Summer Institute Preparing CTE Teachers for Today’s Students Belinda Cole, Ed.D. Facilitator

Embedding Literacy in Everyday CTE Lessons Objectives Analyze the role CTE can play in improving student literacy. Explain the importance of integrating literacy into CTE instruction. Develop assignments that engage students in reading and writing in CTE.

Quick Write Why is literacy important to CTE? You can base your response on knowledge of your CTE field your personal experience your prediction of your students’ literacy needs Try to write as much as possible in 4 minutes

Turn and Talk Turn and talk to the person next to you about what you wrote. Identify concepts from that influenced your response. Jot down ideas they mention that add to your ideas. Be prepared to report out.

Engaging Students in Literacy Assignments Assignments that Promote Literacy Read career-related articles Write weekly Prepare a written report Activities That Use Content-Area Literacy Strategies Examples: Two-Column Notes Frayer Model Word Sort

Sample Assignments—Weekly Writing Which of the sample assignments could you use to get your students writing weekly in your CTE course? Lab Journal Writing and Formatting a Memo Project Activities That Involve Writing

Thinking about the Content of the Reading When do professionals in your field read technical documents like this? What is difficult about reading the passage? Should students have to read documents like this? What do professionals do after they read a document like this?

Web Search for Vocabulary Games Possible Games Next Steps Add strategies to your Ideas You Can Use worksheet. Choose two or three to incorporate into your teaching over the next few months. Jeopardy Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Wheel of Fortune Bingo Password

Word Walls A word wall is an interactive collection of words or parts of words used to teach vocabulary, spelling, letter-sound correspondence, and more. Word walls are not simply décor; they are works in progress designed to promote group learning. Words should be added to the wall as they are encountered in learning and should be removed (or moved to a review board) as they become part of the student’s knowledge bank.

Spin-Offs of the “Word Wall” Graffiti Walls Word Rings Vocabulary Post-It Folders Alpha Charts

Working with Other Teachers to Integrate Academics and CTE Objectives Explain the importance of teachers working together to integrate CTE and academic studies. Identify the key conditions for successful integration of CTE and academic studies. Analyze a variety of approaches for integration and determine the approach most ideal in a given school environment and culture.

Conditions for Successful Integration Set high expectations Teach challenging CTE, with academics embedded Drop low-level academic courses Require a challenging program of study Give teachers time to collaborate Create a structure for teacher collaboration Provide blocks of instructional time Emphasize challenging, student- centered learning Broaden classroom assessment Provide staff development Involve parents Be willing to learn as you go

Approaches to Integration Single Discipline Approaches Interdisciplinary Approaches Single Course Integration Joint Planning Across or Within Departments Team Teaching Short- or Long-Term Projects Thematic Projects or Units Academies

Approaches to Integration Discussion Questions What are examples of the various integration approaches? What are the challenges in implementing each approach? How do some schools appear to overcome those challenges? How are the conditions for successful integration reflected in the school examples in the newsletter?

Steps for Working with Other Teachers to Integrate Academics in CTE Identify eight to ten essential academic standards necessary for success in the career field and for postsecondary education. Identify the academics embedded in the activities, problems and projects you have planned. Select an integration approach. Develop an integrated unit plan for addressing the embedded academics. Review, revise and improve the integrated unit plan.

Share Successful strategies to integrate literacy