1. Accessing your cte curriculum
Kevin Reilly
Administrative Coordinator
CTE Resource Center
Supporting Career and Technical Education in Virginia’s Public Schools

2. CTE Resource Center Who We Are and What We Offer
Work with Virginia Department of Education (VDOE), educators, and industry experts to develop CTE curriculum used throughout Virginia
Develop instructional resources for CTE teachers
Conduct inservices and other professional training for CTE teachers
Offer research services and meeting space

3. Virginia cte curriculum grades 6-12
cteresource.org/verso
Virginia cte curriculum grades 6-12
If you prefer to learn about the website while actively navigating the features, log in to cteresource.org/verso at this time.
If navigating is a distraction for you, you may choose to participate by viewing and listening.
We will provide an opportunity for you to peruse the website and ask questions at the conclusion of the presentation.

4. verso Virginia’s Educational Resource System Online
VERSO is the acronym for Virginia’s Educational Resource System Online.
This website provides access to all Virginia Career and Technical Education curriculum.
To search for a course, enter a keyword in the course title or the course code in the search field.

5. Verso curriculum layout
Duty Area
Task
Definition
Process/Skill Questions
Correlations (e.g., related standards, SOL)
Duty Areas function as housing for tasks that are related. Consider them as the titles of chapters in a book.
The Task, synonymous with competency, is a specific, meaningful unit of work which can be observed and measured. They typically begin with one action verb and include an object. For example, “Record client’s medical history.” We've provided you with a list of verbs that you may use to write lesson objectives that are demonstrable and competency-based.
The Definition explains what a student must do to master the task/competency and also ensures that teachers across the state will interpret the task in the same way.
Process/Skill Questions engage students in critical thinking and synthesis of information. These questions typically begin with who, what, where, when, why, and how.
Correlations include related Standards of Learning, Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO) standards and competitive events, and industry standards.

6. VERSO Search and view options
The courses are organized into Career Clusters. These Clusters organize the thousands of available jobs into 16 groups that require similar interests and skills.
To search for a course, either enter a keyword from the course title or the course code in the search field.
You have options regarding how much content you wish to view at one time. The Expand All button will reveal all components of the framework.
Courses organized according to Career Cluster
Keyword or course code search
Collapsible/expandable views

7. Verso view options
The expanded views are customizable. Click to include or exclude
definitions
questions
related SOLs
other related standards.
The Collapse all button will reduce the framework to Duty Areas and Tasks, but you can customize the expanded view by choosing to include or exclude Definitions, Process/Skill Questions, Related SOL, and Other Related Standards.

8. Curriculum organization
Tasks common to all CTE courses
Workplace Readiness Skills
Demonstrating Personal Qualities and Abilities
Demonstrating Interpersonal Skills
Demonstrating Professional Competencies
Examining All Aspects of an Industry
Addressing Elements of Student Life
Exploring Work-Based Learning
Course-specific tasks
Curriculum organization
Three areas of content are repeated in all CTE course frameworks:
Workplace Readiness Skills (1-22)
Examining All Aspects of an Industry (23-30)
Addressing Elements of Student Life (31-34)
Exploring WBL (35-38)
The course specific tasks/competencies will typically begin with task number 39.

9. Resources in the sidebar
Schools keep an SCR for each student for five years, per VDOE.
SCRs are checked during federal audits.
SCRs are available in .csv and .docx formats.
Some schools use CanDo, an online SCR tracking system.
Students must demonstrate competency on 80% of the essential tasks; this is just one part of student grading.
Workplace Readiness Skills instructional resources
Task-by-task SOL correlations
Career and technical student organization (CTSO) information
Course-specific teacher resources
Infusion units

10. Administrative planning guide (APG)
APG User’s Guide
Courses listed according to career cluster
Courses broken out according to level (middle, high)
Approved completer sequences
Credential information
IT’S FOR TEACHERS, TOO!
Administrative planning guide (APG)
Another handy tab on our website is called APG, the Administrative Planning Guide.
You can get an overview of some commonly-used CTE jargon by exploring the APG Users Guide.
Clicking on a career cluster will reveal all courses associated with the career cluster, broken out according to middle- vs high-school level.
Using the course search bar within the APG will give you course-specific information, including concentration sequences and credential information.
We’ll get a bit more into those on the following slides.

11. Duration and grade level(s) Prerequisites Course description
Apg Course overview
Course name and code
Duration and grade level(s)
Prerequisites
Course description
Here is what a course-specific page looks like. The information in the next few slides is for a course called Cybersecurity Network Systems. Here you can see an overview of the course.

12. APG Career Clusters and Pathways and Available Credentials
Scrolling down, you can see the Career Clusters and Pathways associated with that course, as well as available credentials. Clicking on a credential will reveal handy information for teachers and students preparing for that credential (e.g., testing provider, contact information, number of test items, time allowed for test, passing score, cost).

13. APG Concentration (Completer) sequences
Concentration sequences include at least two 36-week courses.
A program completer has met the requirements for a CTE concentration sequence and all requirements for high school graduation or an approved alternative education program.
Next you get into concentration sequences. Basically, these represent what courses can be paired with the course so that the student can be considered a CTE completer.

14. WRS Instructional Resources cteresource.org/wrs
Lesson plans
Handouts
Assessment rubrics
Teacher resources
Quizlet vocabulary activities
WRS lesson plans can be used at any time or integrated into your existing lesson plans.
Consider using a few of these as you establish your own classroom expectations; WRS and your goals for classroom management are very compatible.
WRS lesson plans can be left as emergency substitute plans; a teacher doesn’t need program-area-specific knowledge to deliver these lessons.

15. WRS Instructional Resources wrs.ctecs.org
From our partners at the Career and Technical Education Consortium of States (CTECS)
Additional lesson plan modules
Practice exams
Additional teacher resources
Resources from the Career and Technical Education Consortium of States (CTECS), the organization that administers the workplace readiness skills assessment

16. Helpful Links from the VDOE
Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education
doe.virginia.gov/instruction/career_technical/
CTSOs
doe.virginia.gov/instruction/career_technical/ctso/index.shtml
Equipment for CTE Programs
doe.virginia.gov/instruction/career_technical/equipment/
Industry Credentials
doe.virginia.gov/instruction/career_technical/path_industry_certification/
Statistics, Reports, and Labor Market Data
doe.virginia.gov/instruction/career_technical/statistics_reports/
Helpful Links from the VDOE
That’s the end of our presentation. On these last two slides we’ve included some links and ways to connect that we hope you’ll find helpful.

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Henrico, VA 23226