Clif Notes 9/4/18
50 Years Of Equipping The State & Now Global Workforce!
DATES TO REMEMBER
This Week
3 - Labor Day/CLOSED
4 - Senior Meeting in Auditorium (Co-Op Group 1 Only)
5 - Underclassman & Staff Photos in Auditorium during Career Area/DFTA
6 - State Primary/No School for Students; Professional Development Day
7 - SAT & Emergency Preparedness Committee Meetings; Voya Meetings
Upcoming:
11 - Faculty Meeting Aud.
12 - Academic PLCs; 4:15 p.m. Extra Help Bus Begins
13 - Academic PLCs
14 - RTI & Master Scheduling Committee Meetings
17 - Class Internet Safety Presentations
Staff Photos
PD Agenda
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S56m9HB1UYmOpz2CgK-n-jvw8EfTBUi8KNWRoUSQR7o/edit?usp=sharing
Sign Up for Morning Sessions
Please use your NCCVT email address when you sign up. This will result in SignUp Genius sending you an email confirmation of your sign up which you can use Thursday as your personal morning schedule. Please contact Dr. O if you have any questions.
Counselors Corner
Classroom Aides: Students with complete schedules will not be removed from currently scheduled classes to serve as classroom aides. If there are students that are not fully scheduled (perhaps they took two courses over the summer or are using DelTech Dual Enrollment in lieu of their Delcastle class), the students will be notified of their eligibility to participate as a classroom aide.
CTE Instructors: Please do not contact any school counselors directly about switching a student to a 2-week about schedule. All 2-week about schedule requests should be made through Mr. Thomas. Scheduling changes will be made based upon the communication from the Co-op office.
SENIORS: Working in a paid co-op position is a fantastic capstone experience. In a perfect world, all of our 12th grade students would be able to participate in a “real world” job during their Senior year. However, we currently have a few two-week about students that are having difficulty obtaining a related co-op job. Students have until September 11th to obtain a 2-week about co-op job. Any student on a two-week about schedule not employed through an agreement with our co-op office after that date will be transitioned to a full-time schedule. We do this every year and just wanted to make sure that there was transparency and communication in regards to the timeframe. We will deal with individual student situations on a case-by-case basis after the September 11th date.
Voya
Blue Collar Day
The University of Delaware Athletics Department is pleased to announce Blue Collar Day during our home football game vs Lafayette on Saturday, Sept. 8 at 3:30pm.
The construction trades will be celebrated by UD on this day. This will be an opportunity for students participating in Delcastle’ s Trade programs. For Blue Collar Day, Delcastle students, staff, and families will receive discounted tickets to the game as well as a shout out for Delcastle Technical High School during the game! For your tickets please click the link below and use the promo code : BLUECOLLAR18.
https://oss.ticketmaster.com/aps/udelaware/EN/promotion/home
50 Year Anniversary Committee Sign Ups
Monday, Sep 2, 2019, 12:00 AM
Delcastle Technical High School, Newport Road, Wilmington, DE, USA
RSVPs are enabled for this event.
Focus
Teaching the Core Skills of Listening & Speaking - By Erik Palmer
The Most Fundamental Skills for Success
Listening and Speaking as 21st Century Skills
Years ago, I heard a speaker say that my students could expect to spend half of their time on the job reading in order to keep up with the continual changes affecting the other half of their jobs. I believe that statement can be updated: when our students enter the workforce, they will be spending half of their time listening—to videos, webinars, and video conferences. This won't be the case only in high tech or professional careers, either. When I last got my hair cut, the stylist told me she had just finished a session of mandatory webinar training. In short, many of our students will find that professional success depends on having good listening skills.
The Partnership for 21st Century Skills, a national U.S.–based advocacy group focused on technology infusion in education, stresses that students must be proficient communicators, creators, critical thinkers, and collaborators. When we consider the digital tools created in the past 20 years, the demand for these "Four Cs" makes perfect sense. Podcasts, videos, webinars, FaceTime, and video conferences make it easy to collaborate, and communication skills are necessary to make that collaboration work.
The rise of online video presents a particularly powerful argument for the importance of oral communication. Chris Anderson, curator of the popular online TED talks, notes that the ease of making videos translates into easier transmission of information. Rather than trying to write about a procedure, for example, we can simply record video and let the viewer hear and see the procedure. As a result, writing is increasingly giving way to telling and to showing. Here's Anderson:
I believe that the arrival of free online video may turn out to be just as significant a media development as the arrival of print. It is creating new global communities, granting their members both the means and the motivation to step up their skills and broaden their imaginations. It is unleashing an unprecedented wave of innovation in thousands of different disciplines: some trivial, some niche in the extreme, some central to solving humanity's problems. In short, it is boosting the net sum of global talent. (2010, ¶10)
Anderson has noticed that the motivation to step up skills extends to oral communication skills. When people see his TED talks online and listen to the expert speakers, they realize the need to become better speakers themselves. In other words, TED talks not only demonstrate how much good speakers can teach us via presentation, they also demonstrate the importance of effective oral language. Listeners are inspired by the innovative ideas in the talks, and they are also inspired to work on presenting their own ideas more effectively. And of course, the crowd-accelerated innovation Anderson talks about only occurs when listeners are effective at grasping the ideas and advancing them.
(to be continued next week)