March 9, 2023 PD

Numeracy, Literacy and Employability

90-minute Session Participant Edition

At the conclusion of this professional teaching and learning workshop, participants will be able to: • Identify trends in popular media indicating an interest in CTE • List several components of CTE that graduates have found particularly helpful • Identify soft skills, literacy skills and numeracy skills for the classroom • Develop ideas to use immediately in your classroom

Materials you will need: •

Access to Jamboard.google.com https://jamboard.google.com/d/1LOMPdGwpO5hTPaAsnbIhfb DVldNb8dTAIIURrf8e1A/edit?usp=sharing • CTE Graduate Profile Book • Menti.com

Duration

What

Who

Description

Start 5

Welcome and intro

Rod & Chris

10

Engage

Rod

Show short video on highlighting some of the CTE-ish popular TV shows such as Dirty Jobs, Fixer-Upper, Christina on the Coast, Counting Cars, Graveyard Carz, British Baking Show, Liberty’s Great American Cookbook, etc. Teachers will submit a few comments on Jamboard about common threads they saw in the videos. Follow this with a brief discussion of the popularity of CTE-ish topics. Provide the link to the CTE Profile book and then teachers in pairs will look at 3-4 different profiles of their choice. Each room will look at a different 3-4 people. From the Profile book, identifying commonalities in the stories about the impact of CTE courses on individuals lives, looking especially for soft skills. Each group will write several 2 – 3-word statements and post them on Menti

Jam Board

10

Explore I

Rod

Menti

5

Explain I

Rod

Briefly discuss entries on Menti.

5

Explore II

Chris

Discuss why CTE courses and employability skills are so important. Make a long list.

5

Explain II Explore III

Chris

Discuss list

10

Chris & Rod

How do we prepare our students for the careers we have seen to make employable and successful citizens?