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Wendy Edney, Ed.D.NCDPIRegional Coordinator, Western RegionWestern NC CTE Honors WorkshopMay 2, 20121WelcomeIntroductionsFacilitatorsSherry Rice, Career Development Coordinatorsherry.rice@bcsemail.orgLisa Roberts, Career Development Coordinatorlisa.roberts@bcsemail.orgKevin Roberson, Career Development Coordinatorkevin.roberson@bcsemail.org

Intro myselfRestroomsOur facilitators are CDCs from Buncombe County who participated in the Train-the-Trainer Honors Workshop at Summer Conference. They have been working diligently to put this workshop together for you. They are receiving no extra compensation for their work so Id like to publicly thank you in advance for being team players and helping all of us as we move forward with CTE honors courses.2Agenda8:309:00 Registration

9:0010:00Welcome and Review of Process

10:00Noon Work in Teams

Noon12:30 Lunch

12:302:30 Work in Teams

2:002:30 Concluding Activity

Will be expected to stay for all activities. If your team works more quickly than others, you will be able to produce more documents to use and share for your honors course. If you complete your honors portfolio before the end of the day, use your remaining time to develop and/or refine honors lesson plans, activities and grading rubrics.3Honors HistoryIn 2004, NC State Board of Education approved honors portfolio processA short list of CTE courses was available to be developed into honors courses at that time.GCS-L-004 was revised October 2009Any CTE course that meets the requirements of the NC State Board of Education became eligible to receive honors weighting.

4CTE Honors Courses DefinitionCTE honors courses are designed to be developed and conducted to demand more challenging involvement than standard CTE courses. They must be demonstrably more challenging than standard courses and provide multiple opportunities for students to take greater responsibility for their learning. CTE honors courses should be distinguished by a difference in the quality of the work expected rather than merely by the quantity.5QuestionsWho must approve an honors course?Your CTE Administrator in cooperation with school and district leadershipMust a regular course be offered if an honors course is added?No, it is acceptable to only teach an honors section or you may offer both regular and honorsCan regular and honors courses be taught within the same class period?Yes, although it isnt ideal it may be necessary.Will honors courses have a different state post-assessment (VoCATS test) than regular courses?No, the post-assessment will be the same6Review of FolderFolder ContentsHonors Workshop Summary Sheet (Submit at end of day)NC Honors Course RubricCurriculum Guide ChecklistRBT PowerpointCommon Core Big Ideas for English and MathHow to Join the Honors Course WikiSample of an Honors Teaching Preparation Portfolio7Updates to Honors Common Core

Formative Assessment

Amount of Course at Honors Level

In the Essential Standards, as you know we have the Revised Blooms Taxonomy. The RBT categorizes both the cognitive process and the knowledge dimension of the standards. The cognitive process refers to the verb used in the standard. The RBT has specific definitions for all the verbs used in the taxonomy. The knowledge dimension is a way to categorize the type of knowledge to be learned and those fall within the green categories you see in this chart. As I mentioned previously, when curricula are revised using the essential standard RBT model, youll see fewer standards taught and a deeper understanding by students will be expected of those standards. Those standards that are necessary to build further knowledge upon and those that are considered most important for life skills are the ones that will be taught and explored more deeply than before.9MonitoringWill the honors portfolio be monitored?Who will monitor it?When will they be monitored?10CTE Honors Wikihttp://ctehonors.wikispaces.com/Some info is already posted thereWill post your revised blueprints and other documents at end of todays sessionContinue sharing after todayPublic siteAvoid posting secure informationAvoid posting answer keys

How should you use the Wiki? 11To Join the CTE Honors Wiki Go to this link: http://ctehonors.wikispaces.comClick Sign In in the top right corner.Click on Create a new Wikispaces account. (This is the second option from the bottom. Do not select Make a new account.)Enter the username you wish to use along with a password and email address. Then, click on Join.

Should have already completed this step, but if not..12CTE Honors WikiTo contribute to the Wiki:

1. In the right-hand column, click on the course title.2. If you wish to add an activity, follow naming convention on course home page.3. If you wish to add a discussion topic, click on the tab "Discussion" and follow instructions.

Demonstrate both of these.

Today you will be preparing the portfolio. However, after today (or if time allows today..), youll begin posting activities to the course home page. Demo this.

Also, after today youll want to begin using the discussion board within your course.

Discussion boardNot monitored by NCDPI but a place to ask questions of contributors. Your PLC Moodle is still the best place to ask questions that your consultants will respond to. How can you use the wiki discussion board? Specifically for honors.For example, you might ask the contributor of a certain activity to clarify something. Not to be used for items such as..My director is so cheap

13Review of the Honors Portfolio ProcessSherry Rice, Career Development Coordinatorsherry.rice@bcsemail.orgLisa Roberts, Career Development Coordinatorlisa.roberts@bcsemail.orgKevin Roberson, Career Development Coordinatorkevin.roberson@bcsemail.org

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