Sessions and snacks
After the Opening General Session, there were some great cookies. I managed to snag an oatmeal and raisin cookie and it was awesome. Sufficiently full, I wandered to the concurrent sessions. For the next two hours, there were eight sessions to choose from. I dropped in on one session in which Dan Coffman was sharing information about The Festival of Learning.
This is a partnership between schools, local businesses, Peoples Bank, teachers and students. The students complete CTE projects, which are displayed and cash awards are given. It sounds like a great program and a lot of instructors were in the session and asked a lot of questions.
I was lucky to get Mr. Coffman off to the side after the presentation and was able to get the PowerPoint presentation to share with you: festival-of-learning-presentation. I hope you get something out of this.
Following the concurrent sessions, was a lunch presentation in which ACTE Executive Director Jan Bray gave a presentation and an update of ACTE activities. In her passionate speech, Bray said, “CTE is rising to the top of the education dialogue and we need to make sure it stays at the top. This is our opportunity.” She went on to give an update on ACTE’s activities, including podcasts, research, Convention, and membership.
Following Bray’s presentation, Jeanea Lambeth gave a rundown of the new CTE Research Agenda that was approved by the ACTE Board of Directors. This agenda was highlighted in a recent issue of Techniques magazine. If you want more information on it, you can certainly contact Jason Kiker in the ACTE office at 800-826-9972.
Once again, sufficiently full of lunch and cookies, I went to make sure all was well near the registration area.
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Related to CTE as at the top of the education dialogue, Neil Howe in a recent interview I did (http://careertechtalk.podbean.com) said that the Millennial Generation is the perfect generation to be into CTE because of their appreciation of a structured pathway to a career. He also noted that Gen X was the low point for CTE enrollment.
October 3, 2008