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Career Ready Practices

Unpacking the Practices for the ClassroomWebinar August 18, 2015Slide2

Today’s Presenters

Melissa Stager

melissa.stager@doe.state.nj.us

Kathleen Paquettekathleen.Paquette@doe.state.nj.us

David McNair

david.mcnair@doe.state.nj.us

Shubha Bhaleraoshubha.bhalerao@doe.state.nj.usSlide3

HousekeepingSlide4

Agenda

1. About the practices2. Why now?3. Practice 1-44. Practice 5 -8 5. Practice 9-127. Moving forward

We will have questions and polls in each of the practices segments. Please ask questions throughout and a moderator will answer them individually or share them with the group. Slide5

What

is one of the biggest predictors of future student success?

http://growingleaders.com/blog/student-successSlide6

Answers

Test ScoresGPASocial Emotional SkillsIntelligenceSlide7

The 12 Career Ready Practices

Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee.

Apply appropriate academic and technical skills

.Attend to personal health and financial well-being

.Communicate

clearly and effectively and with reason.

Consider the environmental, social and economic impacts of decisions.

Demonstrate creativity and innovation.

Employ valid and reliable research strategies.

Utilize critical thinking to make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

Model

integrity, ethical leadership and effective management.

Plan education and career paths aligned to personal goals.

Use

technology to enhance productivity.

Work

productively in teams while using cultural global competence. Slide8

BalanceSlide9

Be more purposeful and explicit…

Instead Of This…“O.K., let’s get into our groups and answer the questions.”

Announcing we are going to collect food for the food pantry.

TRY THIS!

“O.K., let’s get into our groups and discuss possible answers for the questions. Today, I want everyone to focus on active listening, and really hearing what each member thinks. This will help you in many situations. ” (CRP 4)

Asking students what is our responsibility to help those in need locally? Discuss why we are having a food drive, and work it into the curriculum. (CRP 1)Slide10

Why Now?Slide11

What would be the benefit of employing Career Ready Practices K-12?Slide12

Jobs of the FutureSlide13

How it helps students

Better academic performance: achievement scores an average of 11 percentile points higher

Improved attitudes and behaviors: greater motivation to learn, deeper commitment to school, increased

time devoted to schoolwork, and better classroom behavior

Fewer negative behaviors

: decreased disruptive class behavior, noncompliance, aggression,

delinquent

acts, and disciplinary referrals

Reduced emotional distress: fewer reports of student depression, anxiety, stress, and social withdrawal

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PracticeSlide15

Career Ready Practice 1

Act as a

Responsible and

Contributing Citizen and Employee.Slide16

Unpacking Practice 1:

Act as a Responsible and Contributing Citizen and Employee.

Career-ready individuals understand the obligations and responsibilities of being a member of a community, and they demonstrate this understanding every day through their interactions with others. They are conscientious of the impacts of their decisions on others and the environment around them. They think about the near-term and long-term consequences of their actions and seek to act in ways that contribute to the betterment of their teams, families, community and workplace. They are reliable and consistent in going beyond the minimum expectation and in participating in activities that serve the greater good

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What

does it look like?Act as a Responsible and Contributing C

itizen and Employee.

Contributing

Not, “What’s In It For ME?”.Slide18

Things you can do in the classroom Act as a Responsible and

Contributing Citizen and Employee.

Do

a group storytelling exercise where each student adds a detail to the whole story to show how the combination of individual efforts produces a better end result. Encourage students to collect and distribute supplies as often as possible to assist the function of the classroom.

Write/discuss a weekly reflection of what made an individual student or the class “successful”.

Design an energy plan to reduce their home or school’s non-renewable energy consumption.Slide19

Career Ready Practice 2 Applies Appropriate Academic and Technical Skills.Slide20

Unpacking Practice 2

Applies

Appropriate A

cademic and Technical Skills.

Career-ready individuals readily access and use the knowledge and skills acquired through experience and education to be more productive. They make connections between abstract concepts with real-world applications, and they make correct insights about when it is appropriate to apply the use of an academic skill in a workplace situation.Slide21

What does it look like?Applies A

ppropriate Academic and T

echnical Skills.Using

MaTh In ArT

Not, Vacuuming The

LAwnSlide22

Things you can do in the classroom

Applies Appropriate A

cademic and Technical

Skills.

Read a story and determine how a character used knowledge and skill to solve a

problem.Deconstruct all the skills needed to write and publish a book.

Apply Newton’s laws to a school sporting event and report your findings to the

team.Examine advertising campaigns for similar products throughout the ages and create a chart of commonalities. Slide23

Career Ready Practice 3

Attends to Personal Health & Financial Well-Being.Slide24

Unpacking Practice 3

Attends to Personal Health & Financial Well-Being. Career-ready individuals understand the relationship between personal health, workplace performance and personal well-being; they act on that understanding to regularly practice healthy diet, exercise and mental health activities. Career-ready individuals also take regular action to contribute to their personal financial wellbeing, understanding that personal financial security provides the peace of mind required to contribute more fully to their own career success.

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What does it look like?

Attends to Personal Health & Financial Well-Being.Being Your Best

Barely Making IT!Slide26

Things you can do in the classroom

Attends to Personal Health & Financial Well-Being.

Participate in a shared writing activity about what helps us stay

healthy.Create a podcast, video, or multimedia presentation that promotes healthy practices.

Debate the topic of spending vs. saving

money.

Do problems to see how interest rates can be beneficial (savings) or detrimental (borrowing). Slide27

Career Ready Practice 4

Communicate Clearly and Effectively and with Reason.Slide28

Unpacking Practice 4Communicate Clearly and Effectively and with

Reason.Career-ready individuals communicate thoughts, ideas, and action plans with clarity, whether using written, verbal, and/or visual methods. They communicate in the workplace with clarity and purpose to make maximum use of their own and others’ time. They are excellent writers; they master conventions, word choice, and organization, and use effective tone and presentation skills to articulate ideas. They are skilled at interacting with others; they are active listeners and speak clearly and with purpose. Career-ready individuals think about the audience for their communication and prepare accordingly to ensure the desired outcome.Slide29

What does it look like?Communicate Clearly and Effectively and with

Reason.This:

NOT This:Slide30

Things You Can Do in the Classroom

VerbalInterview someone about a past

event (Vietnam War, Challenger Explosion, and the first VCR) and learn how to ask the right questions. Write a summary of the interview.Model conversations with peers that they might have with other community members.

Written

Write a guide to a student next year, informing him/her how to survive Algebra I.

Practice

writing effective, concise emails.Slide31

Which practice of 1-4, do you use most frequently in the classroom?Slide32

Career Ready Practice 5

Consider the Environmental Social & Economic Impacts of Decisions.Slide33

Unpacking Practice 5

Consider the Environmental Social & Economic Impacts of Decisions.

 Career-ready individuals understand the interrelated nature of their actions and regularly make decisions that positively impact and/or mitigate negative impact on other people, organizations, and the environment. They are aware of and utilize new technologies, understandings, procedures, materials, and regulations affecting the nature of their work as it relates to the impact on the social condition, the environment and the profitability of the organization. Slide34

What does it look

like?

Consider the Environmental Social & Economic Impacts of

Decisions.

This:

Not ThIS:Slide35

Things You Can Do in the Classroom

Some ways this is demonstrated:Understanding the real world limits of adopting new ideas

Realizing that decisions always have impactProjecting the future effects of decisionsExamples of Language Arts Classroom Activities:

Create a cause-and-effect pictogram (Early Elementary)Read Flush

by Carl Hiaasen, and discuss the impact of illegal dumping on the waterways (Late Elementary)When learning how to debate, students will be provided assignments based on controversial environmental topics such as oil drilling and pesticide use (Middle School)

While reading Things Fall Apart, students will learn about Colonialism and Imperialism in various African countries. They will write an essay exploring the political, social and economic impacts of Colonialism/Imperialism in Nigeria (High School)Slide36

Career Ready Practice 6

Demonstrate Creativity and Innovation.Slide37

Unpacking Practice 6

Demonstrate Creativity and Innovation.

Career-ready individuals regularly think of ideas that solve problems in new and different ways, and they contribute those ideas in a useful and productive manner to improve their organization. They can consider unconventional ideas and suggestions as solutions to issues, tasks or problems, and they discern which ideas and suggestions will add greatest value. They seek new methods, practices, and ideas from a variety of sources and seek to apply those ideas to their own workplace. They take action on their ideas and understand how to bring innovation to an organization. Slide38

What does it look like?Demonstrate Creativity and

Innovation.This:

NOT

tHis:Slide39

Things you can do in the classroom

Demonstrate Creativity and Innovation

Some ways this is demonstrated :Creating multiple options

Acting on creative ideasCreating products from ideas

Examples of Social Studies Classroom Activities:Use different voices or accents when reading stories to the class (Early Elementary)

Students can create their own form of government for the Classroom (Late Elementary)Engage students while practicing translation skills. Students can decode newspaper articles from around the world using Microsoft Word’s Text-to-Table tool (Middle School)

Pick an influential historical figure from the unit currently being covered. Would the world be different if that person had never existed? Using your creativity, depict your viewpoint through a medium such as essay, original drawing or photograph, or song (

High school)Slide40

What do you do to encourage student creativity?

Post the answer in the question section.Slide41

Career Ready Practice 7

Employ Valid and Reliable Research Strategies.Slide42

Unpacking Practice 7Employ

Valid and Reliable Research Strategies.

Career-ready individuals are discerning in accepting and using new information to make decisions, change practices or inform strategies. They use reliable research processes to search for new information. They evaluate the validity of sources when considering the use and adoption of external information or practices in their workplace situations.Slide43

What does it look likeEmploy Valid and Reliable Research Strategies

This:

NOT

tHis:Slide44

Things

you can do in the classroom

Employ Valid and Reliable Research Strategies

The ability to find, evaluate and synthesize information from a variety of resources

Utilize the Internet as a research methodAnalyze Case Studies

Conduct experimentsDevelop a survey and evaluate the results

The ability to use judgementGather evidence and postpone judgement until enough evidence is gathered

By providing examples, understand the difference between reliable and valid research sources

The ability to formulate a research question

Why is the research important?What have other people done?What have they found?

Would my study lead to greater understanding?Development of a hypothesis

The ability to draw on personal experience and prior knowledge and relate it to new informationMaking connections between ideas, concepts and real life

Postsecondary and business/industry

are looking for students/employees that have:

http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.htmlSlide45

Career Ready Practice 8

Utilize Critical Thinking to Make Sense of Problems and Persevere in Solving Them.Slide46

Unpacking Practice 8

Utilize Critical Thinking to Make Sense of Problems and Persevere in Solving Them

Career-ready

individuals readily recognize problems in the workplace, understand the nature of the problem, and devise effective plans to solve the problem. They are aware of problems when they occur and take action quickly to address the problem; they thoughtfully investigate the root cause of the problem prior to introducing solutions. They carefully consider the options to solve the problem. Once a solution is agreed upon, they follow through to ensure the problem is solved, whether through their own actions or the actions of others. Slide47

What does it look like?Utilize Critical Thinking to Make Sense of Problems and Persevere in Solving

Them.This:

Not This:Slide48

Develop problem solving skills through role play. Students will role play a school-related situation and discuss different ways to solve the problem that would satisfy all parties involved.

Make predictions through reading. Before reading a new book together in Language Arts, ask students what they think is happening in the picture on the front cover.  Have students make predictions on what will happen in the book.

Critically analyze and discuss assigned reading from the class novel using the Socratic Seminar method

http://yoursmarticles.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/socratic-seminar.html#.VYGKxvlVhBc

Use the

Understand, Plan, Solve (U.P.S.) method

to solve equations. After providing students with a card divided into four sections and a

mathematical problem to solve, they will use the following method to solve the equation: Section 1: Understand the problemSection 2: Plan how to solve the problem

Section 3: Solve the problem Section 4: Check your answer

Things

you can do

in the

classroomSlide49

Which practice do your students need the most help with?

CRP 5 Consider

the Environmental Social & Economic Impacts of

Decisions

CRP 6 Demonstrate Creativity and

Innovation

CRP 7

Employ Valid and Reliable Research

Strategies

CRP 8 Utilize Critical Thinking to Make Sense of Problems and

Persevere

in Solving ThemSlide50

Career Ready Practice 9

Model Integrity, Ethical Leadership & Effective Management.Slide51

Unpacking Practice 9Model Integrity, Ethical Leadership & Effective

Management.Career-ready individuals consistently act in ways that align personal and community-held ideals and principles, while employing strategies to positively influence others in the workplace. They have a clear understanding of integrity and act on this understanding in every decision. They use a variety of means to positively impact the directions and actions of a team or organization, and they apply insights into human behavior to change others’ actions, attitudes and/or beliefs. They recognize the near-term and long-term effects that management’s actions and attitudes can have on productivity, morals, and organizational culture. Slide52

What does it look like?Model Integrity, Ethical Leadership & Effective

Management.This:

Not This:Slide53

Things you can d

o in the classroom Model Integrity, Ethical Leadership & Effective Management.

Define honesty and integrity, and discuss times when students have shown honesty and

integrity even when no one is watching. Give examples of people being honest/dishonest in the workplace (examples: stealing money, borrowing workplace supplies, etc.). Discuss whether students agree or disagree with the situations. Have the students create an honesty/integrity campaign in the school.

Based

on a character from To Kill a Mockingbird, such as Atticus Finch, write a paper responding to

a current event from the character’s perspective. Slide54

Career Ready Practice 10

Plan Education & Career Path Aligned to Personal Goals.Slide55

Unpacking Practice 10

Plan Education & Career Path Aligned to Personal Goals

Career-ready

individuals take personal ownership of their own education and career goals, and they regularly act on a plan to attain these goals. They understand their own career interests, preferences, goals, and requirements. They have perspective regarding the pathways available to them and the time, effort, experience, and other requirements to pursue each, including a path of entrepreneurship. They recognize the value of each step in the education and experiential process, and they recognize that nearly all career paths require ongoing education and experience. They seek counselors, mentors, and other experts to assist in the planning and execution of career and personal goals.

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What does it look like?Plan Education & Career Path Aligned to Personal

Goals.This

Not ThisSlide57

Things you can do in the classroom

NJCAN.oRG

Benefits of

NJCAN

Students can plan relevant courses

Students can save portfolios and access them from anywhereStudents take interest, college, and career inventories

Scholarships all in one placeI

t’s FreeSlide58

Career Ready Practice 11

Use Technology to Enhance Productivity.Slide59

Unpacking Practice 11Use Technology to Enhance

Productivity.Career-ready individuals find and maximize the productive value of existing and new technology to accomplish workplace tasks and solve workplace problems. They are flexible and adaptive in acquiring new technology. They are proficient with ubiquitous technology applications. They understand the inherent risks-personal and organizational-of technology applications, and they take actions to prevent or mitigate these risks.

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What does it look like?Use Technology to Enhance

Productivity.Not This:

This:

http://

www.educatorstechnology.com

/2013/05/a-new-wonderful-wheel-on-

samr

-and.htmlSlide61

Things you can do in the classroom Use Technology to Enhance Productivity.

REMEMBER THE MILKwww.rememberthemilk.com

MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses)

Princeton, MIT, and Harvardhttp://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/education/edlife/the-big-three-mooc-providers.htmlSlide62

What technological resources does your district utilize? Slide63

Career Ready Practice 12

Work Productively in Teams While Using Cultural Global Competence.Slide64

Unpacking Practice 12Work Productively in Teams While Using Cultural Global Competence.

Career-ready individuals positively contribute to every team, whether formal or informal. They apply an awareness of cultural difference to avoid barriers to productive and positive interaction. They find ways to increase the engagement and contribution of all team members. They plan and facilitate effective team meetings.

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What does it look like?Work Productively in Teams While Using Cultural Global Competence.

Not This:

This:Slide66

Things You Can Do in the ClassroomWork Productively in Teams While Using Cultural Global Competence.

East vs. West — the myths that mystify

Devudutt

Pattanaik

http://www.ted.com/talks/devdutt_pattanaik?language=

enSlide67

So What Now?Slide68

Career Ready Practices Consortium:Resources created by educators in New Jersey

Math CRP 3: Attend to Personal Health & Financial Well-Being.

GRADE SPAN

Some activities classroom teachers can use to promote CRP 3

Have the students…

Early Elementary (Grades K – 2)

Draw pictures of their lunches and use tally marks to show the quantity of each type of food they ate.  This can be recorded over a week’s time and then turned into a picture graph or bar graph.

Take different menu items, and create a list that shows the cost of various dinners.

Add money and discuss what happens if you don’t have enough money for something.Slide69

Next Steps

Webinar on using the Career Ready Practice lesson tool in September.

Webinar on classroom practices in October.In-person, Train-the-Train Trainer workshops on the practices.

Additional resources.