Light The Fire Within

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Light The Fire Within

• Presenter
• Barbara K. Beadle, Program Specialist
• Business, Marketing, IT and Co-Op Education
• November 10, 2007

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Congratulations

• Dawn Small, Elwood High School
• IBEA Outstanding Classroom Business Teacher
• Anna Stumpf, Hamilton Southeastern High School
• IBEA Emerging Professional
• Tina McCloud, Mt. Vernon High School
• IACTE Outstanding CTE Business Teacher

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Thanks To Sponsors

• Cengage LearningSouth-Western and CT
• Glencoe/Mc-Graw Hill
• Indiana State University, College of Business
• Indiana State University Networks
• Vincennes University
• Aidex Corporation

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Thanks To

• Tina McCloud, Mt. Vernon High School
• Jacquelyn Farrimond, IDOE
• Donna Kimmerling, Indiana Business College
• Exhibitors
• Presenters
• Hosts and Coordinators
• Tonya Skinner, Oran High School, Missouri
• Kim Larsh, Smith Junior HS, Mesa, AZ
• Yvonne Perry
• Phyllis Rokicki
• IBEA Board

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Apple Award

• Dena Irwin, Shakamak High School
• Served on committee to develop standards for
  Professional Career Internship course
• Served on committee to develop Internship Manual
• Summer trainer for Internship Workshop
• Co-developed insurance test for BPA competitive
  events
• BPA Advisor and District Coordinator
• Serves on BPA and IBEA Executive Boards
• Workshop Presenter on several occasions

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Apple Award

• Mary Poole, Tipton High School
• Served on committees to develop standards for
  Business Technology Lab on three different
  occasions
• Assisted with development of Teacher Manual,
  Student Manual, and other materials for Business
  Technology Lab on three different occasions
• Served on first PBL team at McCormicks Creek
• BPA Advisor
• Assists with conference presentations

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Agenda

• Discover Your Purpose
• Renew Your Passion
• Unlock Your Potential

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Discover Your PurposeWhy I Teach

• Make a difference in the students lives
• May be the only person they meet who is honest
  with them or makes them realize that they can do
  whatever they set their minds to
• It is my job to teach all kids, not just the ones
  who want to learn
• When you get that kid that thinks he is useless
  and he does just one thing right, I get excited
  because it sparks something

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Discover Your PurposeWhy I Teach

• Teaching prepares students for the futureBMIT
  gives them life skills and job skills
• Make my class relevant to the real world
• Not only to teach my students but to learn from
  them as well
• Nothing more rewarding than to have former
  students tell me how things they learned in my
  class are helping them in college or on a job.

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Discover Your PurposeWhy I Teach

• Enjoy teaching Personal Finance where I get to
  teach and equip students with some of the skills
  necessary to survive in the real world
• Show all students that there is a whole big world
  out there they need to explore
• Pat them on the back when no one else will
• Push them to succeed and not settle for an
  ordinary life
• Care for my students

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Discover Your PurposeWhy I Teach

• To motivate others to do
• That somewhere on their journey in life they will
  come across a situation and have the Aha moment
• Grabbing on to new opportunities and challenges
  such as leaving comfort of high school job to
  move to the middle schoolthe unknown
• Use resources to be effective and passionate
  about what I teach

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Discover Your PurposeTeacher Comments About
Motivating Students

• Motivate them to use strong ethics while making
  decisions
• Have them identify their values and interests
• Provide them with the resources to be successful
• Innovation and imaginationa little of both goes
  a long way
• Involvementlead by example
• Individualize student learning to their potential
  career goal

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Discover Your PurposeTeacher Comments About
Motivating Students

• By making learning relevant to them
• Encourage students to think positively about
  themselves
• Help students realize their potential and
  capabilities
• Encourage students to set realistic goals
• Give them choices on how to complete an
  assignment depending on their learning style

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Discover Your PurposeTeacher Comments About
Motivating Students

• Students first look on surface but then they
  start to dig and see what they really and truly
  believe and how it matches up to the worlds
  standards
• Spend one on one time with my students outside of
  class
• By having students complete PBL activities to
  realize the relevance of what is being taught in
  the classroom

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Renew Your Passion

• Understanding Your Students
• Millennials
• SAT Data
• Preparing Your Students
• Career Pathways/Clusters
• Career and Technical Student Organizations

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Who is this generation?

• Millennials
• Born 1981-1999
• First class of this generation graduated in 2000
• Have grown up multi-tasking
• Work isnt everything flexibility to balance
  activities is
• Want feedback at the push of a buttonwhenever I
  want it
• Source Howe, N., Strauss, W. (2000).
  Millennials Rising The Next Great Generation.
  New York Vintage Books.

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Who is this generation?

• Big
• The first 100 million generation
• Bigger than Boomers
• Most wanted by marketers
• Protected/Sheltered
• Most watched over generationparents, coaches,
  chaperones
• TONS of state and federal legislation protecting
  childrensex offender programs, AMBER alerts
• Source Howe, N., Strauss, W. (2000).
  Millennials Rising The Next Great Generation.
  New York Vintage Books.

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Some words to describe them

• They are
• Sociable
• Optimistic
• Talented
• Well educated
• Collaborative
• Open-minded
• Influential
• Achievement-oriented

• Web-savvy
• Bloggers
• Chatters
• IMers
• Cell-phone talkers
• CONNECTED!
• Source Raines, C. (2002). Managing Millennials.
  Retrieved Feb. 09, 2006, from Generations at Work
  Web site http//www.generationsatwork.com/article
  s/millenials.htm Who They Are

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Care about future

• Financially savvy
• Care about 401(k)
• Health Insurance
• Opportunity for advancement
• Want to feel like they make a difference/impact

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Why employers want them

• Boomers are retiring
• By 2010 Gen Y will make up 32 of population
• Team-oriented
• Hard workers
• Want to make an immediate impact
• Believe in collective good
• Very tech savvy

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And the rest of the story

• Dont expect to stay in same job due to recent
  corporate scandals
• Dont respond to command and control
• Speak their minds
• Question authority
• Oftentimes dont respect experience
• Source for Millennials SlidesCourtney Schulz,
  Cengage Learning

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And the rest of the story

• Want tomorrows position today
• Information gathers not synthesizers
• Dress Code
• Work is a job not a career
• Have a hard time seeing big picture
• Work is portablenot tied to a desk
• Poor communication skills
• Poor time management

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Intended College Majors of SAT Test Takers 07
Indiana
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Intended College Majors of SAT Indiana 07
Source The College Board
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Intended College Majors of SAT Test Takers 07
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Intended College Majors of SAT All 07 Source
The College Board
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2007 College Bound Seniors Course Taking Patterns
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Career Pathway

• A recommended sequence of general/liberal and
  career/technical courses related to a career
  focus area that students use as a resource when
  developing their high school course plans
• May access over 80 career pathways from IDOE at
  http//www.doe.state.in.us/octe or
  http//www.doe.state.in.us/octe/facs/CrrClstrGrid.
  html

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Career Clusters/Program of Study

• 16 Federal Career Pathways and 84 clusters
• Pathways related to business/marketing
• Business, Management, and Administration
• Finance
• Marketing, Sales, and Service
• Information Technology
• Other Related Pathways
• Government Public Administration
• Hospitality and Tourism
• Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics

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Business, Management, Administration Career
Clusters

• Administrative and Information Support
• Business Analysis
• Business, Financial Management, Accounting
• Human Resources
• Management
• Marketing
• Use Professional Career Internship course as
  capstone pathway.

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Finance Career Clusters

• Banking and Related Services
• Business Financial Management
• Financial and Investment Planning
• Insurance Services
• Personal Finance
• Require as a course for all business students
• Teach more insurance content

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Information Technology Career Clusters

• Information Support and Services
• Interactive Media
• Network Systems
• Programming and Software Development
• Students may also take college credit through
  IUPUI--CITIDOE
• Receive additional state funding for CTE

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Marketing, Sales, and Service Career Clusters

• Buying and Merchandising
• Distribution and Logistics
• E-Marketing
• Management and Entrepreneurship
• Marketing Communications and Promotion
• Marketing Information Management and Research
• Professional Sales and Marketing

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Career and Technical Student Organizations

• Promote leadership skills
• Opportunities for scholarships
• Competitive events that foster business,
  marketing, and information technology knowledge
  and skills
• Enhance communication skills and other academic
  standards

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Unlock Your Potential

• Redesigning Schools or Departments
• Business Middle Level
• Personal Financial Literacy
• Entrepreneurship
• Project Based/Problem Based Learning
• CITIDOE
• Curriki

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Redesigning Schools

• Rigor fewer course choices and more focus in
  core curriculum that establishes the foundation
  for further learning.
• Relevance more innovations and options in school
  models to connect and accelerate students to the
  opportunities and requirements of college and the
  21st century workplace. (Internships, PBL,
  hands-on)
• Relationships building partnerships with
  business and industry in community

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Business Middle Level

• Keyboarding
• Speech Recognition
• Computer Applications
• Personal Finance
• Career Exploration
• Business Ownership/Entrepreneurship
• State standards being considered for NCLB
  technology literacy and personal financial
  literacy
• Business teachers must be prepared to take on the
  responsibility of both areas

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Personal Financial Literacy

• Credit Card Debt
• Housing Foreclosures
• Retirees victimized by financial scams
• Dont spend more than you earn
• No get rich quick schemes
• State standards being considered for NCLB
  personal financial literacy at 8th grade
• Still need to push for a requirement for senior
  level high school course

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Entrepreneurship

• Key component of our economy
• All Career Pathways need some knowledge of
  entrepreneurship
• Technology-Based
• Includes Writing Business Plan
• School-Based Enterprise
• Entrepreneurship Academies

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Teaching Success New Directions in
Entrepreneurial Education

• Discovering interests and idea generating
• Developing entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial
  skills
• Understanding marketing, financing and business
  operations
• Business plan development and presentations
• Operating business/service
• Source Cheryl Peters, The Generation E Institute
  (GENEI), Battle Creek, MI

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Student Comments on PBL

• Not boring like book work or busy work
• Prefer hands-on projects
• Allows me opportunity to be more creative
• Can use my technology tools and business
  knowledge to solve real world situations
• Enjoy collaborative work
• No one can cheat
• Makes the individual sections tie together
• Dont sit and do the same thing as in every other
  class
• Better than listening to the teacher

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Why Use PBL?

• Apply academic standards in a career pathway
  sequence
• Communication (written and oral)
• Reading
• Applied Math
• Technology
• Business
• Encourages critical thinking/problem solving
• No answer key/rubric
• Provides individualized instruction
• Specific trouble/weak areas
• Career pathways/interest

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Why Use PBL cont.

• Enhances instruction
• Makes learning more meaningful
• Students stay on-task
• Apply what they know
• Contextual learning
• Covering multiple learning styles
• Teamwork
• Generate discussion among teams

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CITIDOE

• Dual high school and college credit
• Requires high school business/vocational (BMIT)
  teacher as facilitator
• Courses taught online by IUPUI CIT faculty
• Approximately a 50 tuition break
• Access to all university resources including
  Microsoft Office Suite
• Three IUPUI curriculum plans
• Fulfills Technical Honors college credits

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Who is Curriki?

• Open Source Curricula Wiki Curriki
• The first Internet destination for Open Source
  Curricula (OSC)
• Single repository for validated curricula
• Review comments by subject matter experts
• Incubated inside Sun Microsystems in 2004
• Completely independent 501(c)(3) in 2006
• http//www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome
  

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Currikis Mission Promise

• Our Mission
• To Eliminate the Education Divide
• Our Promise
• Every student and educator will have access to
  quality curricula aligned to frameworks to
  support learning

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Free, Online Curricula Created/Validated by the
Community

• Defined learning objectives
• Scope sequence for instruction
• Lesson plans
• Textbooks other instructional materials
• Teacher Training
• Student assessment
• Correlated to standards and frameworks
• Source Peter Levy, Consortium for
  Entrepreneurship Education Presentation, November
  2, 2007

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A Framework for 21st Century Learning
21st Century Content Business Economic
Literacy (Entrepreneurial Education) Civic
Literacy Global Literacy
Learning Skills Self Direction Thinking
Problem Solving Communications Information
Context Relevant, Real World, Meaningful
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Remember

• Without involvement there is no commitment.
  Source Covey
• I hope that you can say with pride, Im a
  teacher because you are making a difference. We
  are preparing kids for the future.
• Source Judy Moore, Columbia City HS

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For Information Contact

• Barbara K. Beadle, Program SpecialistBusiness,
  Marketing, Information Technology
  andCooperative EducationCareer Technical
  Education151 West Ohio StreetIndianapolis IN
  46204(317) 232-9179-Office (317)
  232-9121-Faxbbeadle_at_doe.state.in.ushttp//www.do
  e.state.in.us/octe/bme