DMEC Career & Technical Education Podcast

Mr. Toby Craver, Agriculture Instructor at Oden High School in the Ouachita River School District, spoke to a live studio audience at the Arkansas Educational Television Network about his experiences delivering Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC), the state's professional development procedure for delivering Common Core standards in high schools.

Presentation from SREB's Common Core State Networking Conference in Charlotte, NC, July 2013. Educators from the DeQueen-Mena Education Service Cooperative explain how they used LDC and technology to deliver the new standards while remaining true to their CTE content.

Using Writing Reviser as a way for students to edit their own work before submitting.

This is a recording of a session I did with a group of Secondary Tech Center teachers. These are college instructors that are asked to teach high school students and sometimes both have an incomplete understanding of each other with regard to expectations. During this session, I cover a few key aspects to earning cooperation and effort from high school students.

This episode is a recording of a SAM 2007 training held here at DMEC on February 1st. SAM (Skills Assessment Manager) is a proficiency-based assessment and training environment for Microsoft® Office. SAM offers instructors a choice of the way they want to use our content. Students are continually engaged in their learning. SAM is part of a Perkins project within the DMEC Consortium schools aimed at increasing the passage rate of IC3.

Highlights from "But I'm Not a Reading Teacher: Strategies for Literacy Instruction in the Content Areas" by Amy Benjamin. Followed by useful graphic organizers for content vocabulary. Modeling reading strategies by using the highlight feature on the Kindle app for iPad and PC. Introduction to Literacy Design Collaborative and Accelerated Reader in CTE classrooms.

The information you want can be delivered to you by using RSS feeds in your classroom Wiki. There's no need to spend hours of your extra time searching for articles or blogs for your students to read - RSS feeds send the information to you and you have control of what information reaches your students.

The first episode illustrates how to create a Wikispace. Other episodes will illustrate how to use it for effectiveness in the classroom and outside the school walls.

This episode demonstrates how we will go about setting up e-books on your iPad and the use of the Kindle app as we continue to focus on Literacy in the CT classroom.

This is the beginning. The starting point for selecting non-fiction for your classroom. The next step to be included is the creation of test questions for your Accelerated Reader program.