Western NC CTE Honors Workshop October 6, 2011

1. Western NC CTE Honors WorkshopOctober 6, 2011 Wendy Edney, Ed.D. NCDPI Regional Coordinator, Western Region

2. Welcome • Introductions • Facilitators • Sherry Rice, Career Development Coordinator • sherry.rice@bcsemail.org • Lisa Roberts, Career Development Coordinator • lisa.roberts@bcsemail.org • Kevin Roberson, Career Development Coordinator • kevin.roberson@bcsemail.org

3. Agenda • 8:30—9:00 Registration • 9:00—9:20 Welcome and Overview • 9:20—10:30 Honors Portfolio Process • 10:30—10:45 Break • 10:45—Noon Teamwork • Noon—12:30 Lunch • 12:30—2:00 Teamwork (If multiple teams are working on your course, meet together at 1:30 and come to consensus.) • 2:00—2:30 Concluding Activity

4. Honors History • In 2004, NC State Board of Education approved honors portfolio process • A short list of CTE courses was available to be developed into honors courses at that time. • GCS-L-004 was revised October 2009 • Any CTE course that meets the requirements of the NC State Board of Education became eligible to receive honors weighting.

5. Inherently Honors? • 8030 PLTW Computer Integrated Manufacturing • 8031 PLTW Civil Engineering and Architecture • 8020 PLTW Intro to Engineering and Design • 8021 PLTW Principles of Engineering • 8022 PLTW Digital Electronics

6. CTE Honors Courses Definition • CTE 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.

7. Questions • Who must approve an honors course? • Your CTE Administrator in cooperation with school and district leadership • Must 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 honors • Can regular and honors courses be taught within the same class period? • Yes, although it isn’t 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 same

8. Monitoring • Will the honors portfolio be monitored? • Who will monitor it? • When will they be monitored?

9. Organization of Your Team • Work in teams of 4-5 • If 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 team’s information into the electronic template • Chair will also be responsible for keeping group on task • IMCs and Directors are asked to spread out among groups and help to develop portfolio

10. CTE Honors Wiki • http://ctehonors.wikispaces.com/ • Some info is already posted there • Will post your revised blueprints and other documents at end of today’s session • Continue sharing after today • Public site • Avoid posting secure information • Avoid posting answer keys

11. CTE Honors Wiki • Go to this link:  http://ctehonors.wikispaces.com/space/invite • Click “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.”

12. CTE Honors Wiki • Contributing • Adding an activity: Competency and Objective:5.2 Subject: This is a great activity to use with..... Teacher: Wendy Edney Upload file Note: Keep in order by competencies and objectives • Adding a discussion topic or responding to a discussion thread

13. Western NC CTE Honors WorkshopOctober 6, 2011 Wendy Edney, Ed.D. NCDPI Regional Coordinator, Western Region