Session 1: Overview of the Lead Teacher Strategy and
Resources to Make Your Job Easier
The Career Choices Lead Teacher’s most important role is
providing ongoing, sustained professional development.
Over the next three days, you’ll learn a variety of strategies
such as how to form a professional learning community
with your Career Choices instructors, how to facilitate
workshop sessions using video training modules, how
to develop a customized lesson plan that will meet your
freshman transition initiative’s goals, and how to get
buy-in for this important total school reform effort. In
this session, we’ll review the roles and
responsibilities of an effective Lead Teacher
and review the resources available in the Lead
Teacher/Administrator Manual.
Session 2: Customizing Your Professional Development Plan Using Your 22
Workshop Agendas
To be competitive for reform initiative monies, you’ll
need to prove that your school can provide capacitybuilding
professional development to all stakeholders.
We know that you have very little time for planning
and preparation, so we’ve designed a system that makes
this process easy and efficient. In this session, you’ll
learn how to facilitate workshop sessions using the 45-
minute workshop agendas and training videos outlined
in your Lead Teacher/Administrator Manual. In addition,
you’ll be exposed to a variety of professional development
strategies, including building professional learning
communities, so you can design a plan that works for you.
Session 3: The Five Ingredients of Success: Modeling a Workshop Agenda
Using one of the 22 workshop agendas in your Lead
Teacher/Administrator Manual, your trainer will lead
you through the training module The Five Ingredients
of Success. Not only will you learn these five critical
components of a Career Choices course, but you’ll also
gain first-hand experience with this unique professional
development system designed to help you launch
your freshman transition initiative in an efficient and
effective way.
Session 4: Integrating Academics and Technology into Your Whole School Reform Effort
As you begin working on your customized lesson
plans today, we’ll review the academic and technology
opportunities that you’ll want to consider integrating
into your Career Choices coursework. And, because a key
technology piece is the online 10-year plan, we’ll review
this innovative strategy and the Lead Teacher’s role in the
implementation of this advisory tool.
Session 5: Course Planning Strategies: Using Excel-formatted
Templates to Jumpstart
Your Planning
It’s far easier to edit than it is to
create. In this session you’ll learn
a system for creating customized
lesson plans for your team using
and Excel spreadsheet. You’ll
piggyback on the experiences of
hundreds of educators by learning
how to start your planning using
one of the lesson plan templates
provided on your resource disk.
The information from this session
will save you hours and hours
of work and you’ll be secure
in knowing your course will
culminate with every student
creating a quantitative and
meaningful 10-year plan.
Session 6: Higher-Order Teaching Strategies for the Career Choices Curriculum
To be competitive in the 21st
century our students will require
higher-order thinking and
self-management skills. This
skill development can only be
delivered through higher-order
teaching strategies. This session
provides the opportunity to review the classroom
management techniques that encourage this outcome.
How will you know you are successful in your efforts?
Learn assessment and evaluation techniques that will help
you continually reassess your efforts so you can upgrade
your classroom tactics.
Session 7: From an Instructor’s Perspective: Advice for Career Choices Teachers from Career Choices Teachers
Attendees from several Institutes will be treated to a very special panel discussion exploring freshman transition classrooms that work. This panel of Career Choices instructors will share some of the insights they've gained, techniques they've honed, and strategies they've implemented successfully in their own classrooms.