Explore new frontiers in education, exchange ideas, evaluate approaches, and learn how to develop plans and create the kind of models that work best in your school, for your students.
While the training revolves around the Career Choices curriculum, you'll also have an opportunity to focus on project-based learning techniques, team teaching tactics, curriculum integration models, and dropout prevention strategies.
Learn how to:
- Engage students in motivational, relevant academics
- Integrate career and life planning into core academic subjects (English/
language arts, math, social studies) using the Career Choices curriculum
- Improve reading, writing, and math by teaching skills in real-world context
- Ignite students' interest through new strategies, resources, activities, and
ideas
- Use the Internet to enhance your Career Choices course
- Infuse technology into your academic classroom using the optional online
correction tool for Lifestyle Math
- Motivate students and help them see the impact their high school education
has on their future life satisfaction
- Create a willing, motivated, and confident faculty as you implement
educational change
- Build interdisciplinary or academic teams that work
- Set up Freshman Academies, Smaller Learning Communities, or Career
Academies in your school
Register at least three weeks before the event to receive the Early Bird rate.
Who Should Attend:
- Freshman academy teachers and planners
- Educators implementing Smaller Learning Communities
- Teaching teams already using Career Choices
- Teachers responsible for integrating career/technical studies with academics
- Academic teams looking for a proven interdisciplinary curriculum
- At-risk program coordinators and teachers
- Counselors and Tech Prep coordinators
- Administrators charged with dropout prevention
- Family and Consumer Sciences, Business, and Career Orientation teachers
- English teachers looking for innovative literature-based curriculum