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Curriculum & Instruction Support Director
Georgette Phillips [email protected] President of Curriculum Support & Operations
Tanja [email protected]
[email protected] 800-967-8016 EXT 354
760-961-7812
CAREER CHOICES“Getting Started”
Career Choices Coursework MUST
STEP ONE: UNDERSTAND- Understand that to achieve the desired results, your Career Choices coursework should
Be comprehensive, with class discussion and active learning as the key delivery methods - http://www.careerchoices.com/lounge/active/ - Review Section 4 of the Instructor’s Guide on a daily basis
ACTIVE LEARNING VS PASSIVE LISTENING
Socratic Method of instruction VS Didactic Delivery
Higher Order Thinking (analysis, synthesis, and evaluation)
VS Read and Recall
Critical, Creative, and Strategic Thinking
VS Memorization
An Interdisciplinary Project-Based Culture
VS Subject-Centered Isolation
Con’t: STEP ONE - Remember to achieve the desired results, your Career Choices coursework should
Be sequential, running from beginning to end - chapters 1-12
Devote at least 60 hours to the lessons from Career Choices
Culminate with completion of a written, comprehensive 10 year plan (Chapter 12)
Be taught by an instructor who is well-prepared and enthusiastic about the course.
STEP TWO- Prepare to Teach
Career Choices Teachers- Participate in an Implementation Workshop
Lead Teachers - Participate in a Career Choices Lead Teacher Institute
Join the Teachers’ Lounge and view the training videos www.careerchoices.com/lounge
Choose a pacing guide
Read through Section Four of the Instructor’s Guide
Refer to the online Instructor’s Guide
Step TWO Continued: Prepare to teach
Visit www.careerchoices.com and determine how/when you can incorporate this optional enhancement into your class.
Meet with team to go lesson by lesson, brainstorm and finalize your strategies for delivery. Build a support system for daily and weekly evaluation, sharing what worked, what things you may try, and what challenges you encountered.
Review the pre and post survey (Section 14/9-14 new IG and 6/12-16 in the Instructors Guide) www.academicinnovations.com/prepostsurvey.index.html
Step TWO Continued: Prepare to teach Find out who is your SSE and the keeper of the usernames and passwords
Schedule Computer Lab
Be sure to give the PRESURVEY the first day BEFORE you pass out the books. Make copies of the survey if needed.
Visit www.my10yearplan.com and watch the overview videos. Do a side-by-side walkthrough of the site and Workbook/Portfolio as if you were a student experiencing this important tool. The lessons for this process are highlighted in yellow on your lesson plan spreadsheet.
Step TWO Continued: Prepare to teach Tools to use to prepare
Pacing Guide -Lesson Plans - Syllabus
www.academicinnovations.com
Standards Correlations
www.careerchoices.com/cupboard_list.html/
Download Pacing Guide
Section 4 - Instructor’s Guide
STEP THREE- The Online Teachers Lounge
http://www.careerchoices.com/lounge/cupboard_list.ht
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Online Training Videos
Quick Start Resources & Study Guide
Online Community
Resource Cupboard
STEP FOUR: Professional Development
Online Training Videos- Self-Study Quick Start Guide http:www.careerchoices.com/lounge/mod_vieworder2.html
View Why It Works http://www.academicinnovations.com/whyitworks/index.html
Instructor’s Guide - Section 1/16 Quick Start Checklist
Workshops & Trainings ~ local, national, custom, hosted, www.aiworkshops.com
Earn Continuing Education Units (CEU) and Professional Development Credits www.careerchoices.com/lounge/modules.html
Once your class startsEVERY DAY- Review your Pacing Guide spreadsheet and turn to the corresponding lesson in Section Four of your your IG and review the recommendations for that activity.
Socratic rather than Didactic-See yourself as a leader, mentor, coach, and cheerleader, helping students develop and explore their own vision of a productive future.
Assign the Pre-Survey the 1st days of class
Assign homework from their Workbook/Portfolio each day so students come to class prepared for discussion and group activities.
WeeklyMeet with your team of Career Choices Instructors to discuss and brainstorm activities and challenges. Occasionally invite your principal and district leaders to attend.
Visit the Teacher’s Lounge reviewing corresponding online training modules, stories or other successful schools, and the contents of the Resource Cupboard
Log into Career Choices Online Professional Learning Community www.careerchoices.com/lounge/plc_home where you can get tips from other teachers, share your ideas and get ask questions.
Research why it works & Find out if it’s working for you!
Proven Programs http://www.whatworkscareerchoices.com/bestpractices.html
Awards and evaluations - http://www.whatworkscareerchoices.com/awards.html
Career Choices Medal Program-http://www.careerchoices.com/lounge/medal1.html
Use Your TOOLSInternet Enhancements
Tanja Easson
www.careerchoices.com/lounge
www.careerchoices.com
www.lifestylemath.com
WWW.MY10YEARPLAN.COM Essentials & Interactive
What’s the future of online learning?
http://www.edutopia.org/poll-online-virtual-learning-future
Clayton M. Christensen, Michael B. Horn, and Curtis W. Johnson, Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns
200045,000 K-12
students took an online course.
3+ million K-12 students took an
online course.
50% of high school courses will be delivered online.
2009
2019
Sam S. Adkins, “The US PreK-12 Market for Self-paced eLearning Products and Services: 2010-2015 Forecast and Analysis,” Ambient Insight, January
2011
Why is “blending” learning becoming imperative?
“...in an age when information and communications technology skills are so critical, and so much collaboration, resource sharing, content development, and learning are done digitally, asynchronously, and at a distance, it is unlikely that student learning will be based solely on print textbooks and face to face classes conducted in 50-minute increments.”
North American Council for Online Learning, Promising Practices in Online Learning,Blending Learning: The Convergence of Online and Face-to-Face Education
Benefits of Blended Learning
✓ 21st century skills development
✓ Enriched experience for the student
✓ Enhanced personalization of learning
✓ Increased communication and support
Keeping Pace with K-12 Online Learning: An Annual
Review of Policy and Practice, 2010
What is Blended Learning?
also known as Hybrid Learning• No single definition
• No set ratio of online to face-to-face interaction
• Broad range of practices
Blended Learningalso known as Hybrid Learning
Any time a student learns, at least in part, at a brick-and-mortar facility and through online delivery with student control over time, place, or pace.Heather Staker, “The Rise of K-12
Blended Learning: Profiles of Emerging Models,” Innosight
Institute, May 2011
Blended Learningalso known as Hybrid Learning
iNACOL defines blended learning as:
✓Blended learning combines two delivery modes of instruction, online and face-to-face; the communication in both modes is enhanced by a learning management system
✓The role of the teacher is critical, as blended learning requires a transformation of instruction as the teacher becomes a learning facilitator; instruction involves increased interaction between student-and-instructor, student-to-content and student-to-student Matthew Wicks, A National Primer on K-
12 Online Learning, International Association on K-12 Online Learning
(iNACOL), 2010
Why is “blending” learning becoming
imperative?
Four out of ten students leave high
school with what they need to function
well in society.
Bob Wise, Alliance for Excellent Education, May 24, 2011, How Blended Learning Can Help Turn Around Struggling Schools, http://media.all4ed.org/briefing-
may-24
CareerChoices.com
✓CareerChoices.com
✓The Teachers’ Lounge
✓Career research tools
✓ Job interview tips
✓College information
✓Resume writing
✓Loan calculation
✓Factoring in debt
✓ Job growth
✓Labor market statistics
CareerChoices.comCareerChoices.comNot a user-specific site.
The Teachers’ LoungeThe Teachers’ LoungeUser-specific site
New and Improved
Both a Print &
an Online Version✓Each copy of the Instructor’s Guide that’s ordered as part of an adoption of Career Choices materials includes a code for two years of individual instructor access to the online version.
1. Complete the activity in the Lifestyle Math workbook first.
2. Log on.
3. Enter your calculations.
4. Get instant feedback on accuracy of your work.
5. Get a chance to rework your calculations.
6. Print your work for credit.
LifestyleMath.comLifestyleMath.comNot a user-specific site.
My10yearPlan.comMy10yearPlan.com®®
User-specific site.
Pre-/Post-Survey✓Set as an option when you
create student accounts
✓Pre-survey is required when student first logs in
✓Post-survey becomes available after a date that you select and set
Online survey or paper survey?
Reports
My10yearPlan.comMy10yearPlan.com®®
Essentials or Essentials or Interactive?Interactive?
A blended-learning opportunity for the Career Choices student
that will guide them to a deeper level of critical thinking about
their future.
Chapter 12
Printable
Portfolio Report
Dain Blanton Dain Blanton introduces introduces
each Career each Career Choices Choices
chapter to chapter to students students
through short through short video clips.video clips.
Social Network
Join us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/10yearplan
Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/tenyearplan
Course FinalAt least two weeks before the end of your class, assign the completion of Chapter 12 and the 10-year plan as a take home final.
Reserve a computer lab for 2 or 3 periods (3 - 4.5 hours total) so students can enter the data from their Workbook/Portfolio into www.my10yearplan.com
Assign the Post Survey after students complete their 10yearplan. Compare students’ pre and post survey responses. Students can compare them and write their findings and how they would grade their learning.
Throughout the Course
For personalized support contact Georgette Phillips- 760-961-7812 or [email protected]
Bi-weekly TIPS Email (Teaching Insights, Practices and Solutions)
Monthly TECH TIPS
Monthly Newsletter
Monthly webinar training - September “Your Career Choices Online Tools”
End of Course
Share your experience with Academic Innovations by completing an online teacher survey at www.academicinnovations.com/gettingstarted We take these surveys seriously and it helps us upgrade the services we offer you.
CELEBRATE a job well done both with your students and with your colleagues. See pages 15/18 - new IG 4/168 and 4/169 of the Instructor’s Guide for ideas.
Implementation Survey
• http://www.academicinnovations.com/gettingstarted/
• Complete by October 15, 2013 for a chance to win a Career Choices Survival Kit!
