CTE Weekly
January 24, 2020
CTE in ACTION
Careers In Education
DECA Virtual Business Challenge
MODELING & TEACHING WORK READINESS
Reading at Work
Most work reading is technical--full of numbers and complex, industry-specific words. Sometimes work reading is hard to understand and remember. At work, people read for many reasons:
- Instructions to complete a process or perform a task properly
- Equipment warnings to remain safe
- Email to respond to others or follow up on requests
- Reports to learn the status of a process or activity
The following strategies help students process technical reading. As teachers, we need to give students practice. Consider how you can structure your communication to reinforce these practices.
Step 1: Read the title, subject line, or opening line of a document for clues to the content. These provide the big picture. For example, if you receive an email and attachment with the subject line “Agenda for the January 4 meeting,” you know that the attachment discusses the topics to be covered at the meeting.
Step 2: Read headings and subheadings. To get a quick view of a long document and learn more about its content, read the headings and subheadings first. They provide an outline of the document.
Step 3: Scan the paragraph information. To help you identify the information you might need from a document, scan the main idea of each paragraph--what the paragraph is about. Then scan the rest of the paragraph. Underline the important words and sentences.
Step 4. Recite to remember. Forgetting what we read happens to all of us, but you can help yourself remember by looking up from your document. Think over what you just read and recite any part that will be hard to remember.
Step 5: Interpret new words. You must know what unfamiliar words mean before you can understand what you read. Use a dictionary or thesaurus to help you know the meaning of words.
TASKS & REMINDERS
- Every teacher host one guest speaker or industry professional during February
- All CTE boards are updated with course information
- Host some type of activity in your class before school, after school or during lunch to attract students
Send Teri the pictures for CTE Instagram and website!
Data Reporting of Industry Certificates and Dual Credit
- Open the Google Drive
- Enter data in your roster file (available starting Monday)
Register students in SERS for Dual Credit
- Log into SERS for the PC3 or SPSCC and be sure you see your articulated course
- Have students register that qualify
- Instructions are on the website
- Letters will be sent home to parents of all students that qualified for credit with instructions on how to access the college credit
Semester Only Class
Winter Advisory Meetings
- Set date of meeting by Jan 17
- Include Teri in the Zoom
- Meetings Complete: Automotive
CTE Calendar with CCL Events
Jan 25 - SkillsUSA Regionals @ RRHS 8:30am-4pm
Jan 28 - DECA @ ShoWare 5pm-11pm
Jan 28 - SAE Project Presentations @ Southworth 9:45-11:30am
FEBRUARY - CTE MONTH
Feb 7 - FBLA Regionals @ Great Wolf 7am-3pm
Feb 12 - CTE Meeting @ Library 2:15pm
Feb 19 - Sheet Metal Apprenticeship Site Visit
Feb 19 - College & Career Readiness @ YHS 6pm
Feb 20 - Reality Fair #2
Feb 20, 21, 22, 28, 29 - Drama Presents: Beauty and the Beast
Feb 21 - 5th Grade Beauty & The Beast Performance
Feb 26 - Sheet Metal Apprenticeship Site Visit
Mar 4 - Sheet Metal Apprenticeship Site Visit
Mar 9-13 - RMS Tours of YHS CTE
Mar 16-20 - YMS Tours of YHS CTE
Apr 21 - Reality Fair #3
May 7 - New Market Try A Trade
May 14 - Clover Park TC Visit
May 19 - 9th Grade Job Interviews
May 27 - Job Fair
For a complete list of events, visit the CTE Website Calendar or Google CTE Meeting agendas