Your Input Needed for TEKS Review

Posted by mwragg on December 15th, 2008
Proposed revisions to TEKS for all Career and Technical Education courses are posted for review at http://www.tea.state.tx.us/teks/cteTEKS.html. Feedback forms are also posted, with directions for submitting to the Texas Education Agency.

Since these courses will replace your current state-adopted courses, it is very important for teachers to review and comment. Writing teams have worked hard to get the courses to this point, but they have worked under a very short timeline. They are relying on the informal review process to point out omissions or revisions needed, and unless review comments are received, they cannot make changes.

Please look at the flowchart attached below for each cluster to get the “big picture” of how courses fit together. Then read through each course to determine whether everything students need to know is covered. You are the front line experts, and you can most readily recognize if content you consider especially critical has been left out, or possibly needs restating, or otherwise needs editing. Your positive feedback where courses look good will also help the writing team. 

This is time sensitive, because input needs to be received by January 14 for writing teams to consider the edits before presentation to the State Board of Education. To comment, complete the Informal Feedback Form posted on the site linked above and submit per instructions to TEA.

 CTE Cluster Flow Charts

You Are Cordially Invited!!!

Posted by sredding on December 15th, 2008

Coppell High School in Coppell, Texas will be hosting a Ready, Set, Teach! Symposium on January 29, 2009.  This event is for any Ready, Set, Teach! instructor in the North Texas area.  The event will be from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm at CISD Brock Center, 268 Southwestern Blvd., Irving, Texas 75039.  Lunch will be provided free of charge.  The purpose of our event is to share ideas, philosophies and concepts with each other.  We hope to form a lasting network as we continue to grow our programs.  If you would like to attend, please RSVP to Shelly Redding at sredding@coppellisd.com

Midwinter Tri-Cluster Conference

Posted by hblount on November 17th, 2008

Registration information is now posted on the FCSTAT Web site  www.fcstat.org for the Midwinter Tri-Cluster Conference, January 23-24, 2009 at the Radisson Hotel Austin North in Austin, Texas.

Please note there will be a Mentor/Mentee Session for new and returning teachers on Saturday, Jan. 24 from 7:30 -8:15 a.m.  This will be a great opportunity for mentors and mentees to meet face-to-face and get to know one another. A light continental breakfast will be served so please be sure to mark this session on your registration form. If you have any questions, contact Heather Blount at the Curriculum Center for Family and Consumer Sciences.

Excellent Article

Posted by hblount on November 5th, 2008

I recently came across an article that would be great to share with Ready, Set, Teach! students.  Click on the link below to view the article.

I Am Not A Babysitter,  October 20, 2008

http://www.newsweek.com/id/163455

Articulation

Posted by misshoke on October 17th, 2008

Does anyone have information about RST being articulated? I know that some school do, and I am trying to get some information to do it for my students.

Bloom’s Taxonomy Activity

Posted by alee on October 17th, 2008

Someone at the TAFE Sponsor’s Conference asked me to post this.  When we were covering Bloom’s Taxonomy, I had my students come up with a rap, jingle, phrase, song….something like that to help them remember Bloom’s. 

One of the groups came up with this phrase….”Ketchup Can Accentuate Any Sandwich Easily”.  Notice the letters that each word starts with….K (knowledge), C (comprehension), A (application), A (analysis), S (synthesis), E (evaluation).  That was a catchy way to help remember the levels.

Thanks to everyone for sharing their great ideas!

“Grow Your Own Teachers” Program posted for D. Shepherd

Posted by hblount on September 24th, 2008

Do any of you RST teachers offer a “Grow your own teachers” program through your district where students sign a letter with your district to come back and teach with the district once they have completed their teacher certification? My district is trying to reach teachers whose district offer this to see how they set up their policies for this program.

New Resources

Posted by hblount on August 29th, 2008

Be sure to check out the Shared Resources Section!  I have added many new resources courtesy of Brenda Vadner.  These resoureces were shared and discussed at the Ready, Set, Teach! session at the Tri-Cluster Conference this summer.

Heather Blount

Update User Profiles

Posted by hblount on August 27th, 2008

If your email address has changed since last school year please update this in your personal profile on the blog.  Recently, I have received several “undeliverable” messages after sending emails.  If I email you it may contain important information so I want to make sure I have the correct email addresses.

Thanks,

Heather Blount

The Curriculum Center for Family and Consumer Sciences

Great Article

Posted by hblount on August 20th, 2008

I came across this article and wanted to share it.  It would be great to share with Ready, Set, Teach! students as they are introduced to careers in education.

http://encarta.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/showarticle/CA/259&GT1=9951/improve/print/

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