Basic Skills and Career and Technical Education

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Basic Skills and Career and Technical Education

• Lin Marelick Valerie Carrigan
• August 11 13, 2008
• BSI August Institute

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Agenda

• August 11, 10 a.m.-1200 p.m.
• Introductions
• Outcomes for the 3- 2 hour session
• Handbook Chapter 13 CTL CTE
• ESL/CTE curriculum integration
• Contextualized lessons
• 100 pm - 300 p.m.
• Team work develop a lesson
• Teaching demonstration and assessment

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Agenda Continued

• August 13, 9 a.m. - 11 a.m.
• Develop teaching demonstration
• Presenting the lesson
• Assessment of presentation

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Outcomes

• Understand how to collaborate with basic skills
  faculty to develop contextualized teaching and
  learning (CTL) for CTE program
• Learn strategies for engaging students with basic
  skills needs in the classroom
• Learn how to get faculty buy-in to develop
  contextualized lessons
• Increase communication with CTE and basic skills
  faculty from other colleges
• Develop strategies for ongoing CTL discussions at
  your home campus
• Complete a contextualized lesson in basic
  skills/CTE disciplines

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Introductions

• Description of the exercise
• Meet and greet- introduce yourself to five people
• Introduce one of the five people you met to the
  rest of the class

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Handbook CTL CTE

• Misconceptions Quiz- write True or False answers
  to statements below
• Students dont need reading or math to be
  successful in CTE programs because they need very
  discrete skills for specific occupational roles.
• The majority of students who get their GED
  continue on to higher levels of education and/or
  occupational training.
• The only way CTE students with basic skills needs
  can improve those skills is to enroll in a basic
  skills course.

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Misconceptions

• Discussion What misconceptions will you
  encounter from faculty who did not attend this
  institute?
• Groups report out

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More QuestionsLearning Communities

• Which statement is true about learning
  communities?
• Learning communities reach across a limited
  number of disciplines
• Learning communities are classes that are linked
  or clustered during and academic term and enroll
  a common cohort of students.
• The faculty member is the center of activity in a
  learning
• Learning communities are not as effective for
  developmental learners community.

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Directed Learning Activities

• Which statement is untrue about Directed Learning
  Activities?
• Directed Learning Activities incorporate tutorial
  centers to address basic skills needs.
• Apportionment funding in the form of hours by
  arrangement can be legitimately collected for
  directed learning activities.
• The goal of the directed learning activity is the
  completion of exercises.
• The language of the activity clearly connects to
  the course assignments, objectives and/or
  outcomes.

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Contextualized Learning

• Which statements below are true about
  contextualized learning?
• In contextualized instruction, skills are taught
  in the context of what is required and relevant
  for industry.
• In contextualized instruction, skills are taught
  in the context of what is relevant for general
  life and survival skills.
• In contextualized instruction, skills are taught
  in the context of what is meaningful and relevant
  to previous knowledge or experience.
• The best way to learn something is in context.
• All of the above answers are correct.

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ESL/CTE Curriculum Integration

• Discussion on discoveries, pitfalls, successes,
  concerns when trying to work across disciplines
• Q A

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Reviewing a contextualized lesson

• Arithmetic pre-test
• Contextualized lesson
• Quiz

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More about contextualizing curriculum

• Why should we incorporate contextualized basic
  skills into CTE courses?
• What is the process used to develop
  contextualized curriculum?

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BREAK
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Now you try it

• Break into teams of 4
• Discuss strategies for teaming with local basic
  skills/cte faculty to develop contextualized
  learning
• Report out discuss your process and results
• List srategies/models, concerns, successes,
  fears, breakthroughs.

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Teaching Learning

• Discuss strategies for keeping students with
  basic skills needs engaged in the classroom
• Report out strategies discussed
• Teaching that engages
• Assessment v. Evaluation (whats the
  difference?)
• Assessment improve performance using feedback
• Evaluation judges performance but doesnt
  necessary identify ways to improve
• Assessment of presentation

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Lesson development across discipline

• Discussion describe a lesson you commonly teach
  and basic skills teachers respond with ways to
  make the lesson friendly to students with basic
  skills needs

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YOU DID IT!

• Whats next
• Take your experience back to your campus
• Talk to your colleagues
• Engage your students
• Make a difference
• Best wishes and thank you for being here.