Presented by:Cindy Miller, CTE Coordinator

Frenship ISDLinkedIn: clamiller

Twitter: @FrenshipCTE

Developing a CTE Professional Learning

Community

1 To celebrate student achievement

2 To increase student achievement

3 To share the active responsibility of our students’ and our own on-going learning

4 Because we are stronger collectively than individually

5 To improve teaching pedagogy

6 To push, stretch, and support our practice while maintaining professionalism

7 To analyze data with a team and plan standards-based ”next steps”

8 To support colleagues for peer review

9 Because learning is most productive in a social context

10 Because bonding with colleagues makes for a healthy and happy work environment

Top Ten Reasons to Develop a CTE PLC

Study Groups (Departmental Meetings)

Action Research Teams (Task Force Committees)

Communities of Practice (Mentors)

Conversation Circles

Communicating Online (Video Conferences, Webinars, etc.)

Types of Learning Communities

Purpose of this Presentation

Can the PLC process be successfully employed in the CTE high school program to produce higher levels of mastery of industry identified critical competencies?

TENETS of PLCs

Develop a Regional Professional Learning Community for Business Teachers sponsored by the Region 17 TBTEA organization!

What Type of PLC?

• 100+• Many brand new

# of Business Teachers

• 65% 1A & 2A• Three 3A

• One 4A & 5ASchool

Districts

• Highest population of students

Business Courses

Region 17 Business Teacher Stats

PLC Issues for Business Teachers

Business Technology

Teachers

Business Industry• Graphic Design• Business Mgmt• Finance• Information

Technology

Postsecondary• South Plains

College• Texas Tech

University/Lubbock Christian University

Lubbock Economic Development Corporation• Labor Demands• Partnerships

Who Are the Players?

PLC Process

Post-SecondaryPartner . . .

• Classroom Visits• Dual College Credit

April PLC Workshop

What Can You Do . . .

• Guest Speaker• Real World Problem-

Solving Projects• Job Shadowing• Internships• Career Coaching• Discussion Board

Who are You . . .

Panel Questions

Dialogue

Academic World . . .

CTE World. . .

Business tells us the what

Business/ Postsecondary

Partners

Business Mgmt

Finance Graphic Design

Information Technology

Regional Business Advisory Board

Rank Competencies . . .

“Critical” Competencies

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COMMENTS

Arts, A/V Technology & Communications TEKS

Business Management & Administration TEKS

Finance TEKS

Information Technology TEKS

Do We Agree . . .

Mastery . . .

Lesson Plan

Daily Assessment

PBL Project/Rubrics

Specific Competency . . .

Results . . .

Productor

Process

Upload Results. . .

Google Site

Discuss Results. . .

Best Practice. . .

Sustainability . . .

Graduate With A Purpose

Career by Choice . . .

Not by Chance

Who Wins . . .

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Alvin Toffler, author and futurist

Book Resources

Starting With Why by Simon Sinek; Simon’s Blog: simonsinek.com

Drive by Daniel H. Pink

A Whole New Mind by Daniel H. Pink

Other Ways to Win by Kenneth Gray

Getting Real by Kenneth Gray

The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell

Made to Stick by Chip Heath

Questions