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Wendy Edney, Ed.D.NCDPIRegional Coordinator, Western RegionWestern NC CTE Honors WorkshopOctober 6, 20111WelcomeIntroductionsFacilitatorsSherry 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 Registration9:009:20 Welcome and Overview9:2010:30 Honors Portfolio Process10:3010:45 Break10:45Noon TeamworkNoon12:30 Lunch12:302:00 Teamwork (If multiple teams are working on your course, meet together at 1:30 and come to consensus.)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.

4Inherently Honors?8030 PLTW Computer Integrated Manufacturing8031 PLTW Civil Engineering and Architecture8020 PLTW Intro to Engineering and Design8021 PLTW Principles of Engineering8022 PLTW Digital ElectronicsThe Project Lead the Way courses listed above are inherently honors. An honors teaching preparation portfolio is not required. All students enrolled in these courses automatically receive honors weighted credit. In fact, the first two can earn 2 extra weighted quality points and students can take an exam that qualifies them for college credit.5CTE 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.6QuestionsWho 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 same7MonitoringWill the honors portfolio be monitored?Who will monitor it?When will they be monitored?8Organization of Your TeamWork in teams of 4-5If more than one team per course, will work in small team until 1:30. At that time, will meet together as large group to come to consensus regarding portfolio.Elect a chairperson for your team who will enter your teams information into the electronic templateChair will also be responsible for keeping group on taskIMCs and Directors are asked to spread out among groups and help to develop portfolio 9CTE 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? 10CTE Honors Wiki Go to this link: http://ctehonors.wikispaces.com/space/inviteClick 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..11CTE Honors WikiContributing

Adding an activity:Competency and Objective: 5.2Subject: This is a great activity to use with.....Teacher: Wendy EdneyUpload fileNote: Keep in order by competencies and objectives

Adding a discussion topic or responding to a discussion thread

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

12Wendy Edney, Ed.D.NCDPIRegional Coordinator, Western RegionWestern NC CTE Honors WorkshopOctober 6, 201113