Connecting Education and Careers 2004 presents ideas, initiatives and inspiration in multiple learning pathways that support the conference goals of improving student and organizational performance. The conference features:
- Keynote presentations to inspire innovation and renewed energy;
- Professional development sessions organized on program-specific days;
- Mega-issue sessions on critical leadership, legislative and regulatory issues;
- Poster sessions;
- Personal development sessions;
- Specialized technology workshops;
- Career Tech Expo exhibiting and teaching the latest products and services for career tech programs,
classrooms and labs.
Learning Pathways: Topics
Curriculum and Instructional Strategies
Example topics:
- Career exploration and skills assessment
- Curriculum alignment
- Employability and life skills
- Exemplary programs
- Integrating academics and career tech
- Middle and secondary career guidance
- Service learning
- Teaching to tomorrow’s jobs
- Reviving struggling programs
- Working with troubled students
- Workplace and classroom ethics
Emerging and Future Educational Technology
Example topics:
- Adopting new classroom technology
- Multimedia techniques
- Online and distance learning
- Online secondary education
- Online teacher education programs
- Personal technology basics
- Technological literacy
- Virtual training
- Web-based teaching techniques
Example topics:
- Business-education partnering
- Career tech around the world
- Collaborations and partnerships
- Connecting careers to the classroom
- Contextual teaching and learning
- Education pathways and career clusters
- High school to postsecondary articulation
- New approaches to traditional subjects
- Technology across the curriculum
- Work-based learning
Example topics:
- Adult workforce training
- Assessment and accountability
- Career tech data to support success
- Career Tech meets No Child Left Behind
- CTE and academic achievement
- Detailed legislative updates
- Future of career tech
- Highly Qualified Teachers
- Legislative advocacy
- Perkins reauthorization and compliance
- Teacher recruitment and preparation
Example topics:
- Career tech teacher/faculty development
- Certification programs
- Diversity and generational issues
- Legal issues in teaching
- New teacher resources
- Recruiting and mentoring teachers
- Stress reduction and renewal
- Teacher quality
Learning Pathways: ACTE Divisions
- Administration
- Adult Workforce Development
- Agricultural Education/NAAE
- Business Education
- Family and Consumer Sciences Education
- Guidance
- Health Occupations Education
- Marketing Education
- New and Related Services
- Special Needs
- Technology Education
- Trade and Industrial Education
