How to Keep Students Engaged Despite Digital Distractions
It is every teacher’s challenge to try to keep students engaged despite digital distractions and lack of motivation. With more distractions than ever before like texting, social networks, and YouTube...
View ArticleSummer Dreams: Common Core Standards and Career and Technical Education
Summertime! There it is; that collective sigh of relief. Now that school is almost over, hopefully you have a few weeks to relax, relate, release and regroup. I know this is your time to unwind and...
View ArticleAllied Health Resources for Teachers – Inspire the Future
Allied health resources for teachers on the healthcare system can be challenging to find. And even when you do, it can be an abstract and dry topic. The “system” is something apart from most students....
View ArticleCommunity College Uses Blended Learning Solutions for Health
Thanks to the TAACCCT grant (also called JobTrakPA), Northampton Community College Program Manager and instructor, Terry Rives has a remarkable opportunity to help students determine whether or not a...
View ArticlePros and Cons of Homework and Social Media in Blended Learning
Two concepts seem to rise to the top of everyone’s list when discussing some of the struggles associated with blended learning. Since blended learning tends more often than not to include some type of...
View ArticleAddressing Common Core CTE Standards through Blended Learning
“Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound…” What’s the first thing to come to mind? Common core standards, right? Okay, maybe not...
View ArticleFive Ways Students Can Use Blended Learning in CTE This Summer
As classes wind down, it’s important that you make sure students keep up their skills over the summer. And not just readin’, writin’ and rhythm guitar. You’ll need to emphasize that they continue to...
View ArticleTeaching to the Test Pros and Cons in CTE
Yesterday, our fearless leader, Jim Schultz, and I were discussing a comment from a sales rep who deals in CTE products. The rep’s claim was that there is no CTE money out there for schools to spend...
View ArticleProject Based Learning and Common Core Standards for CTE
Last week, someone mentioned project based learning and common core standards. Until that point, I hadn’t really contemplated the relationship. So, I went forth to see what I could find out about how...
View ArticleCommon Career Technical Core Standards and Your State’s Standards
Recently I sat in on a round table discussion with people involved in implementing common core and state legislator. The pieces of truth shared by people ran across many fronts on the Common Core. I...
View ArticleNursing Assistant Lesson Plans – End of Life Issues
Nursing assistant lesson plans dealing with end of life issues can be a challenge for the typical under-twenty NA student. As it was with all of us so many years ago, the NA student’s youth and health...
View ArticleBeginner’s Guide to Using a Blended Learning Classroom Setup
I get a lot of questions from busy teachers trying to seamlessly add blended learning to their courses. “How are other teachers doing it?” I get asked. I’d like to share some encouraging information...
View ArticleWhat if CTE Lesson Plans Were a Graduation Requirement?
What if career and technology education was a graduation requirement like math and language arts? I think I’d want to live in that world. I sure would have liked to go that school. And I definitely...
View ArticleCareer and Technical Education Lesson Plans: Help Us Help You
We know you want new career and technical education lesson plans, and we’re working on it for you. One of the topics we are developing is Health Information Technology. While we know the basics, we...
View ArticleIs Health Information Technology a Good Career Choice?
This week, both of my twin nieces changed their majors to the health care field–one to paramedics, one to OR technician. Despite the fact that they are twins, they made their decisions independent of...
View ArticleBlended Learning Tools Make CTE Teachers Heroes
CTE teachers are my heroes because they take their lemons and make lemonade. Or do they make cobbler with blueberries? Here’s why blended learning tools make CTE teachers heroes, plus a few more...
View ArticleBusiness Education Resources: International Business and Entrepreneurship
We have been working feverishly to get more business education resources ready for you and your students. And even if you aren’t using our program, I thought you’d still find this relevant, in case you...
View ArticleFun with Blooms Taxonomy and Blended Learning
Image source :http://ww2.odu.edu/educ/roverbau/Bloom/blooms_taxonomy.htm It’s summer. It’s Friday. You might actually have a few minutes to enjoy this… Let’s have some fun with Blooms Taxonomy and...
View Article2 Ways to Be a Better CTE Teacher Next Year
Loosen up, people, it’s summertime! It’s the time of year that we all like to throw all the rules out the window. Grab hold of a new approach and go for it. And it really is the perfect time for...
View ArticleBusiness Education Lesson Plans for Economics
According to our blog statistics, our most popular posts involve lesson plans. And today, talk among us at AES says that our new Introduction to Economics content is pretty slick. So, you want lesson...
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