Collaboration for Career & Technical Education, PD, December 14, 2022

PLC

“Collaboration for Career & Technical Education” December 14, 2022

Professional Development

with

Dr. Chris Merrill

and

Rod McQuality

PLC

“Collaboration for Career & Technical Education”

75-minute Session Participant Edition

Book study: Collaboration for Career & Technical Education

Chapter 2 – Forming Collaborative Teams Chapter 3 – Setting Up the Logistics of Teamwork

Objectives: Through planned activities and teacher pre-work for this professional development session, • CTE teachers in the TF School District will determine the purpose of the PLC team for professional learning; and • TF School District CTE teachers will determine the essential skills that will drive the PLC team’s purpose.

Materials you will need: •

Access to: Jamboard.google.com https://jamboard.google.com/d/1QJOdWF34pljuwAvX5oU8RVKTSkd3AKVebyE9_ OxebVE/edit?usp=sharing • Zoom Link for session: https://illinoisstate.zoom.us/j/95034374417

Duration

What

Who

Description

5 minutes

Welcome: Intro and review from Nov. 9

Rod & Chris

Participants enter name and discipline in chat box. Review Jamboard from previous session. (Pages 1-3)

5 minutes

Rod & Chris

In your breakout rooms: Based upon on your pre-work, (defining the primary purpose of the PLC team’s existence), discuss and synthesize one central purpose. Post on Jamboard. (Page 4)

3 minutes 7-8 minutes

Rod & Chris

Discuss postings on Jamboard.

Rod & Chris

In your breakout rooms: Based upon on your pre-work, (create a list of common skills that cut all CTE coursework), discuss these skills to determine if consensus can be determined and/or the identification of other skills that should be included Discuss, as a group, the common skills for all CTE coursework. In Breakout Rooms: What is one skill that the PLC team could agree upon to focus on for up to four weeks? Post skill on Jamboard. (Page 5)

5 minutes 5 minutes

Rod & Chris

Rod & Chris

3-5 minutes

Rod & Chris

Reflect as a large group on skills on Jamboard page

10

Rod & Chris

Based upon your pre-work, reflect on focus of learning results that will be shared.

10

Chris

In your breakout rooms: Discuss the three prompts below as related to your future CTE PLC team. • Where do YOU want to be? • Where are YOU now? • How will YOU get there?

10

Chris

Discussion on the breakout room prompts.

5

Next Steps

Chris

Next session will focus on the content in chapter 4

Meet Your Facilitators Chris Merrill is a Professor of Technology and Engineering Education, as well as STEM Education and Leadership in the Department of Technology at Illinois State University. Merrill has 26.5 years of experience at the high school and university levels. In 2020, Chris was named the Association for Career and Technical Education National Teacher Educator of the Year. Before becoming a high school teacher, Merrill was a cabinetmaker.

Rod McQuality is a retired Illinois School Administrator. Since retirement, Rod has taught undergraduate and graduate students in the education department at Concordia University Chicago and the University of Illinois Springfield. In addition, Rod has served as Project Director for two different CTE grant projects for the Illinois State Board of Education. Rod has over 40 years of education experience in the public-school classroom, serving as a school administrator and teaching at the college level.