CTE Standards

1. CTE Standards The New Face of Colorado CTE What, Where, & How!!

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5. A common set of knowledge and skills A grouping of occupations and broad industries based on commonalities. Subgroupings of occupations/career specialties used as an organizing tool for curriculum design & instruction. Targets the “big ideas” in each pathway. Not course specific, but grow with student’s progression through sequence of courses. What do students need to know and be able to do? The indication that a student is meeting an expectation at mastery level. • CareerPathway • Prepared Completer Competency • Career Cluster • Concept/ • Skill • Essential Skills Colorado Career & Technical Education Standards Academic Alignment Reference System • Evidence Outcome

6. Essential Skills • ESSK.02– (Prepared Completer Competency) • COMMUNICATIONS: Use oral and written communication skills in creating, expressing and interpreting information and ideas including technical terminology and information. • ESSK.02.01 – (Concept/Skill) • Select and employ appropriate reading and communication strategies to learn and use technical concepts and vocabulary in practice • ESSK.02.01.a– (Evidence Outcome) • Determine the most appropriate reading strategy for identifying the overarching purpose of a text (i.e. skimming, reading for detail, reading for meaning or critical analysis). • ESSK.02.01.b • Demonstrate use of content, technical concepts and vocabulary when analyzing information and following directions.

7. The Standards Process • From where did the standards come? • The academic alignment process

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