Teaching CTE Honors Courses

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Teaching CTE Honors Courses

• New Hanover County
• March 30, 2012

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News Flash

• All CTE Courses can now be
• offered
• as an
• Honors Course!

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However . . . .

• After the CTE Directors Approval
• You must submit
• An Honors Course Teaching
• Preparation Portfolio

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CTE Honors Courses

• Must be aligned with the current
• NC Career Technical Education Essential
  Standards
• Honors Course Implementation Guide

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Must be . . .

• More challenging
• Providing multiple opportunities for students to
  take greater responsibility for their learning
• Distinguished by a difference in the quality of
  the work rather than quantity

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Purpose

• To offer challenging, higher level courses for
  students who aspire to an advanced level of
  learning
• To promote
• Opportunities for advanced work
• Rigorous study of CTE content areas
• Practical application of knowledge skills
• Transfer of knowledge skills to work-based
  situations

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Characteristics

• Follow the same course of study
• Content outline
• Blueprint
• Curriculum guide
• Require a higher level of cognition quality of
  work
• Enable students to become actively involved in
  classroom experiences
• Involve students in exploratory, experimental,
  open-ended learning experiences

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Should Provide . . .

• Problem-seeking problem-solving skills
• Participation in scholarly creative processes
• Use of imagination
• Critical analysis application
• Personalized learning experiences
• Learning to express/defend ideas
• Learning to accept constructive criticism
• Becoming a reflective thinker

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CTE Honors Teaching Portfolio Must clearly
concisely include

• General course information
• Course description from CTE Essential Standards
• Competency goals, objectives from course
  blueprint
• Concepts from course outline
• Generalizations
• Essential questions
• Issues particular to course

• Expectations of performance
• Assignments
• Timetables deadlines
• Pacing Guide
• Assessments, including rubrics
• A system for grading
• Instructional materials, equipment technologies
  

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Generalizations?

• Generalizations are general statements or ideas
  concerning an area of study
• Generalizing is a sophisticated skill as it
  relates to organizing ideas.
• Can involve constructing defending conclusions
  based on the understanding of two or more persons

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Essential Questions?

• Essential questions are interrogative statements
• designed to focus on main ideas
• Used to prompt thinking spark discussion of key
  elements within a larger context
• Reflect most historically important issues,
  problems, debates
• Designed to be thought-provoking to students

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Issues in Course

• Because of the diverse nature of course
• content, many courses have issues or
• features that are unique to the honors course.
• Examples
• Specific equipment/software
• Facilities
• Transportation
• Certification/credentialing tests

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Expectations of Performance

• Performance requirements
• require a
• higher level of rigor
• as based on
• honors course
• Preparation Portfolio

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Assignments

• Likely to be long-term project- or problem-based
  assignments
• Should offer students elements of choice
• Should reflect students career interests

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Assessments

• Elements
• Involving multiple varied means
• Include both cognitive performance-based tasks
• Develop provide relative rubrics

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CTE Honors Courses
Are measured By Quality NOT Quantity
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CTE Honors Wiki Site

• To access Honors Documents
• http//ctehonors.wikispaces.com
• Send a copy of the electronic honors portfolio
  to
• helen.lipka_at_nhcs.net

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Starting the CTE Honors Portfolio Template
1 General Course Information Copy paste the state course code, title, recommended max enrollment recommended requirement hours of instruction. You can get this from the digital copy of the Essential Standards Handbook (flash drive or wiki)
2 Course Description Copy course description from the digital copy of the Essential Standards Handbook (flash drive or wiki) and paste into the gray area. This is where you will insert explanations of enhanced course expectations.
3 Course Goals Objectives You will attach the enhanced course blueprint. Take the standard course blueprint. Review each goal objective. Decide which one that you will enhance to honors level and write in an enhanced goal or objective. You may want to highlight in yellow or bold the objective or goal to distinguish honors objectives goals from the standard goals objectives.
4 Concepts Do the same procedure for the course outline
Continue through the template until you complete your Honors Teaching Portfolio Send the portfolio via email to Helen