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Wednesday, June 24, 2009 |
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Time |
Title |
Description |
Session Organizer |
| 12:30 -
1:00 p.m. |
First-Time
Attendees Orientation Session |
This
orientation session is designed for first-time
attendees, although all conference participants are
welcome to attend. Take this opportunity to learn how
to get the most from the conference. |
Ted
Piwowar |
|
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. |
Coaching
Teachers to Employ 21st Century Instructional
Strategies |
Millennial students learn better when their teachers
use 21st century pedagogical strategies. In
this session, participants will see how a school is
paying attention to the needs of teachers. The school's
coaching model helps teachers see strategies and
processes needed to become focused and skillful in
their daily lesson delivery.
The developer of the model, the school's director, and
two teachers will present ways that coaching
has helped their instructors. First, they will explain
the coaching sessions. Then, they will show how coaching has helped teachers define essential curriculum, develop
critical instructional strategies, and plan
essential assessment. |
Alice
Davis Dan Perna |
| Scope Out Skype |
Join this live, informational, and
motivational Skype session with Shelby as she “Skype’s
in” from Lancaster, PA. She will
explain the unlimited possibilities of using this free
video chat program that is easily adapted to any
classroom. It allows classrooms to connect across the
state, the world, and even across generations. Learn
how her students are improving their reading skills by
sharing reading and culture skills with students in
Lititz, PA as well as countries such as
Japan, Ukraine, and India. Other instructional examples
of how to use Skype in the classroom will also be
shared.
|
Shelbra
Foster |
| Social
Media: Friend or Foe? |
Blogs,
Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, wikis, podcasts, and
YouTube -- these are just a few of the plethora of
social media services available today. Many individuals encourage
the use of social media. Claims of engagement,
collaboration, and new and creative ways to
learn are the pedagogical reasons that proponents of social
media services say they should be
used in education.
But are these services truly friendly to education?
There are reports of malware, worms, predators,
hackers, and the fact that so many users reveal too
much personal information.
What does it take to effectively use social media
services in
the classroom and keep students safe? Let’s take a look
and find out. |
Nancy
Evans |
| A
Nontraditional Approach to Nontraditional |
Three
presenters will share information on Perkins indicators
and the importance of recruiting and retaining students
in programs nontraditional to their gender. Discussions
will include CTE and
industry partnership recruitment activities for males
in health care occupations and females in
technology-related fields, including information and
communications technology and cross-industry
applications of technology.
Participants will learn how to plan STEM camps.
Finally, the under-representation of genders in
nontraditional programs in terms of federal Civil
Rights laws will be addressed. |
Jerilynn
Millvan |
|
Consolidated Annual Report (CAR) |
This presentation will outline the scope
and content of the Consolidated Annual Report submitted
by the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) to
the Federal Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE)
for Perkins accountability. The discussion will cover
the report structure and indicator lists as well as
improvement efforts being undertaken by the Department
to assist schools with meeting indicator levels for
Perkins IV legislation. |
Kevin
Springman |
| 2:15 -
3:15 p.m. |
General
Session:
CTE in the Era of Green |
Green is
one of the hottest buzz words in Washington and around
the nation. What does it mean and what do you need
to know? This session will provide an overview of all
that is green: federal and national activities, trends
and promising practices, and predictions about where
the movement will take us with relation to CTE and
workforce issues. |
Steven
DeWitt |
|
3:30 - 4:30 p.m. |
Manufacturing & Machining Programs - Tools for Aligning
National Credentials & State Standards |
The
Indiana County Technology Center and ToolingU have
partnered to create a comprehensive curriculum tool for
secondary CTE instructors in Pennsylvania. ToolingU classes are mapped to NIMS standards
and also mapped for
Reading, Writing, Speech & Literacy, Math, and Science
anchors for state academic standards. Manufacturing
technology & machining instructors are battling
problems such as declining enrollment, engaging
students, and addressing academic standards all at
once. ToolingU online curriculum offers solutions by
providing a means of engaging students for theory
portions of their training. Keith and Toni will cover
the implementation, curriculum development tools, and
automated grading mechanisms that are part of the
student’s final grade. They will demonstrate the ease
of system set-up, the immediate grading, and the
ability to identify potential areas of weakness for
individual students. |
Toni Neary |
| Highway to
the Danger Zone |
New
technologies have the potential to revolutionize and
derail an educational system. Advancements in
educational technology are taking place so swiftly that
statutory and case law are continually developing and
striving to keep pace. Repercussions for school leaders
are significant and may include technology-related
issues involving freedom of speech, harassment,
privacy, special education, plagiarism, and copyright
concerns. Attention to these emerging legal conditions
and on-going professional development are the keys to
preventing a technological collision. |
Maggie and
Scott Major |
| Robots as
an Educational Tool |
Tired of
the same old baseball game? Try your brain at a robot
sporting event. This will add excitement to your
typical science, technology, engineering and
mathematics (STEM) classroom, your technical program,
or your educational facility. |
Heather
Simpson |
| Literacy
Coaching: How Can I Be Successful? |
The
journey of a thousand miles begins with the first
step." As coaching becomes a popular technique to
improve student achievement, it is often difficult to
know where to start. Since it was initiated in January
2009, literacy integration at Bethlehem AVTS has
resulted in amazing accomplishments. This session will
show you how to begin the journey. Intended audience:
Literacy coaches, administrators, career and tech
teachers, academic teachers, guidance counselors,
middle and high school teachers, and anyone who might
be considering a coaching position. |
Linda Grim |
| Are You
Being Served? Meeting the Demands of Industry |
This session is suitable for all
audiences, particularly at the secondary level. Is
there a relationship between students' achievements on
end of program assessments and their performances on
the job as determined by industry employers? This will
be a presentation of findings from a research study
about student attainment on the written and performance
components and how they predict customer satisfaction. |
Paul
Munyofu |
