2011 ACTE
Annual Convention and Career Tech Expo
ACTE 2010 Career Tech Expo
Nov. 17 & 18, 2011
America's Center
St. Louis, Missouri
Mark your calendar today for the best professional development
event of the year, Nov. 17-19 in St. Louis. Registration
is now open (print form)! The
2011 Annual Convention call for presentations is now closed.
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Pre-Convention Workshops
Get an early start on the best professional development event
of the year by registering for one of these great sessions.
Keep an eye out as we add more and more to the pre-Convention
agenda!
Embedding the Common Core Standards Into CTE Courses
The Common Core Standards for Reading and English Language Arts
provide clear expectations for the academic knowledge and skills
that will prepare students to succeed in further learning and
the workplace. The challenge for the CTE teacher is to discover
where these academic standards fit in the instruction of technical
content and how to provide enabling learning activities that
enhance and support their students’ technical achievement.
This full-day workshop will help the CTE teacher and administrator
understand the expectations for learning presented by the
Common Core State Standards and will address specific strategies
CTE teachers can use to embed the knowledge and skills from
these standards into CTE courses. Emphasis will be placed
on improving the quality of career/technical studies to ensure
career/technical courses provide students with opportunities
for placement in high-wage, high-skill and high-demand careers
or to prepare students for high-quality postsecondary study.
Examples of writing prompts and reading comprehension strategies
will be used to engage the session participants and model
strategies that will promote achievement of the Common Core
Standards. A set of mathematics standards from the Common
Core State Standards that can be easily embedded in CTE courses
will be identified, and strategies for engaging, hands-on
mathematics instruction will be presented.
Workshop Leaders:
Gene Bottoms, Senior Vice President, Southern Regional Education
Board
Leslie Carson, Assistant Director, Preparation for Tomorrow,
Southern Regional Education Board This full-day
workshop will take place on Wed., Nov. 16, 2011, 8:30 a.m.-4:00
p.m., and will include lunch. The cost for this workshop is
$200. Please note that this workshop is limited to 100 registrants.
How to Significantly Increase Enrollment, Retention
and Graduation Rates With Millennials!
In this half-day pre-Convention workshop, led by CTE enrollment
and retention expert Mark C. Perna, attendees will learn the
secrets to significantly increasing enrollment, retention and
graduation rates. These decisive and timely enrollment strategies
are critical in today’s highly competitive "outcome-based"
educational marketplace. Attendees will discover:
- Powerful and proven CTE enrollment and retention strategies—perfect
for administrators, teachers and critical support team members.
- The keys to the Millennial Generation and what makes
them tick, how they make decisions, and the critical tactics
for connecting, engaging and retaining them through graduation
for both high school and adult Millennials.
- The power of the “Funnel” strategy in recruiting,
retaining and graduating students in far greater numbers.
- The keys to developing an enrollment- and retention-driven
organization that understands the power of the “Light
at the End of the Tunnel” strategy.
- How to create “Program Copy Points” that
get noticed and make your programs easy to understand. Short,
sweet and to the point!
- The vital steps to overcoming CTE’s most common
objections and stigmas.
This workshop will take place 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
on Wed., Nov. 16, in St. Louis. The registration fee
is $150. Refreshments will be provided.
Anatomy in Clay® Staff Development
Reignite your health science instruction with engaging, interactive
hands-on teaching!
In this half-day staff development workshop, attendees
will build human anatomy using clay and a specially designed
skeletal model. The goal—explore anatomy from the inside out!
Acquire the knowledge to engage health science students with
immediate, hands-on learning using a proven method that is nationally
recognized to increase student retention and test scores.
This staff development workshop will emphasize the skeletal
system, exploring directional terms, muscle and bone morphology,
as well as concepts that will lead into other body systems.
It will also demonstrate how to create true inspiration in
the classroom, with results that can guide students into the
world of medicine and health-related careers. This is an amazing
discovery of interactive teaching and learning, with decades
of verifiable results.
This half-day pre-Convention workshop will take
place 1:00-5:00 p.m. on Wed., Nov. 16. The registration fee
is $150 and includes a snack break. Please note that this workshop
is limited to 50 registrants. Positioning Business
and Marketing Education for the 21st Century: Meeting Needs
of the Post-millennial Student
This full-day pre-Convention Workshop will provide participants
with an understanding of the National Business Administration
Standards, resources for teaching and 21st-century learning
strategies for the post-millennial student—all designed for
immediate application in your classroom.
Led
by MBA Research, this workshop will cover
the following learning objectives:
Awareness of how the changing environment affects what
and how you teach, including implications of STEM, post-millennial
perspectives, technology and Internet.
Increased awareness of the changing demands of today’s
career and college programs, specifically including business
education and marketing education.
Awareness of contemporary strategies and tactics for increasing
engagement of the millennial student.
Understanding of industry trends that will impact today’s
students as they move into the 21st century workforce.
Awareness of the growing demand for and impact of structured
programs of study in business and marketing education.
Understanding of how to use the national MBA Business Administration
Standards to design a local program of study and its individual
courses.
Awareness of tools and strategies for measuring student
learning.
Understanding of curriculum alignment and its impact on
all aspects of effective instruction, specifically including
assessment, student organizations, work-based learning, and
classroom projects and activities.
Awareness of specific pedagogies for engaging and educating
today’s business administration student.
This workshop will take place on Wed., Nov. 16, from 8:00 a.m.-5:00
p.m. The $150 workshop fee includes all workshop materials,
coffee breaks and a boxed lunch. Registration is limited to
25 participants, so register today to take advantage
of this fantastic opportunity!
Tours
Linn State Community College Tour
ACTE has partnered with Linn State Community College,
Missouri’s only two-year technical college, to offer ACTE
Annual Convention attendees a full-day tour experience.
This unique event will take place on Wed., Nov. 16, just prior
to the start of the ACTE Annual Convention. Participants will
get to experience many of the cutting-edge programs available
at Linn State, including Nuclear Technology, Aviation Maintenance,
Electrical Distribution Systems, HVAC Geothermal Technology
and more, all located on a campus that is landscaped by its
own Commercial Turf and Grounds Management program. Linn State,
which is located approximately two hours from the St. Louis
Convention Center, is celebrating 50 years of education in
2011 and has plenty to showcase. You won’t want to miss this
incredible event.
Participants will depart the St. Louis Convention
Center at 8:00 a.m. and return at about 6:00 p.m. All participants
will receive refreshments on the bus, as well as a lunch at
Linn State. The cost for this full-day experience is $75.
While there will be programming and information shared while
attendees are on the bus, please be aware that the travel
time is two hours each way. This tour is limited to 100 participants,
so register today!
Cadaver
Demonstration Tour
The St. Louis University School of Medicine’s Adventures
in Medicine and Science (AIMS) program in Practical Anatomy
and Surgical Education, a division of the Center for Anatomical
Science and Education in the Department of Surgery, is excited
to welcome career and technical educators from around the country
for this unique learning experience. This half-day experience
will begin with a health care panel discussion featuring a variety
of professionals who will talk about their decisions and experiences.
Following that, participants will head into the lab for a hands-on
cadaver demonstration. Facilitated by fourth-year medical students
and focusing on the cardiothoracic and abdominal cavities, participants
will take a guided tour of these areas of the human body. Cadavers
are pre-dissected, but participants will be invited to examine
thoracic and abdominal structures as the presenter discusses
organs and systems. The presentation will also include examination
of human hearts and brains that exhibit various pathologies
(i.e., heart attack, coronary bypass, stroke, Alzheimer Disease).
The presentation will be very similar to AIMS programs taught
to middle and high school students that utilize cadaveric demonstrations
to emphasize to students how to maintain good health through
lifestyle and diet. Participants will leave the
St. Louis Convention Center by bus on Nov. 16 at 1:00 p.m.
and return at 4:30 p.m. The cost to participate in this experience
is $50. The tour is limited to 100 participants, so register today!
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