Collaboration for Career and Technical Education: Teamwork Beyond the Core Content Areas in a PLC at Work® (A guide for collaborative teaching in career and technical education) - Softcover

Wendy Custable; Paul C. Farmer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1949539679 ISBN 13: 9781949539677

Publisher: Solution Tree Press, 2020

Synopsis

All teachers--including career and technical education (CTE) teachers--play a vital role in building a thriving PLC. In this practical resource, the authors explicitly outline how to improve teaching and learning by integrating PLC best practices into CTE programs. Teams of CTE educators will learn how to clarify their purpose, discover their common denominators, and incorporate powerful collaborative processes into their daily work.

Use this resource to learn the vital strategies necessary for building and improving teams:

• Become familiar with the common issues that prevent CTE educators from engaging in the collaborative PLC process.
• Learn why and how the PLC process benefits both CTE educators and students.
• Learn how CTE educators can create collaborative programs that are tailored toward CTE fields of study.
• Receive professional guidance and concrete, achievable teaching strategies for creating an effective PLC process.
• Access a checklist of crucial action steps for career tech teams at the end of each chapter.

Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Establishing a Collaborative Culture
Chapter 2: Forming Collaborative Teams
Chapter 3: Setting Up the Logistics of Teamwork
Chapter 4: Identifying Essential Learnings and Developing CTE Curriculum
Chapter 5: Designing Instruction and Assessments
Chapter 6: Reflecting on Data
Chapter 7: Responding to Student Learning
Epilogue: Turning Parking Spaces Into Rest Spaces
Appendix A: Glossary of Terms
Appendix B: Reproducibles

About this title

About the Author

Wendy Custable is the director of applied arts at the award-winning Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Illinois. She has been in education for 21 years, beginning her career as a technology education teacher.

In her current role at Stevenson, she leads career and technical education (CTE) and driver education teams in professional learning, curriculum and instructional improvement, formative assessment, evidence-based grading, and social-emotional learning.

In addition to her teaching and leadership roles, Dr. Custable has presented at state and national conferences, as well as co-authored two books: Proficiency-Based Grading in the Content Areas (2019) and Collaboration for Career & Technical Education: Teamwork Beyond the Core Content Areas in a PLC (2020).

Dr. Custable earned a bachelor's degree in industrial technology education from Illinois State University, a master's degree in educational leadership from Northeastern Illinois University, and a doctorate in educational leadership from Loyola University Chicago.

Paul C. Farmer is an experienced practitioner who started in education as a career and technical education (CTE) teacher. He has experience in multiple locations of a school system, including classroom, school building, and central office levels. As principal of Joyce Kilmer Middle School, Paul was one of the first principals in Fairfax County, Virginia, to build a PLC that yielded sustained growth in academics. He now consults with educators at every level, from classroom teachers to systemwide leaders, helping them develop and sustain PLCs. His presentations include hands-on activities and practical applications that demonstrate how to build a collaborative culture and a learning-centered environment. Paul inspires participants by highlighting success stories and lessons learned on his own PLC journeys.

Although Paul began his educational career in the classroom, he was soon promoted to a team leader, guiding efforts to support underachieving students. That position led him to become a department chair, central office teacher specialist, curriculum writer, and staff developer. He later accepted a position as assistant principal of a 3,000-student high school in Maryland's Montgomery County Public School System and later moved to Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS). While working in FCPS, the deputy superintendent selected Paul to be the project director of instructional technology integration. In that capacity, Paul worked with all grade levels and directed a districtwide project to build an online curriculum repository with links to assessment questions and assessments designed to improve student performance on Virginia's high-stakes tests.

Edition details

• Publisher: Solution Tree Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1949539679
• ISBN 13: 9781949539677
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248