Real Education. Real World.

Rosie Gonzales took first place in her role play and second place overall for Principals of Marketing. Brad Osby was top 6 in the Quick Serve event. DECA advisor, Stephanie Thiel was extremely proud of the students and considered this quite a feat with only 5 kids participating in the event.

In the Apparel & Accessories division Hayden Hilliard won first place overall and Brandon Marks took third place overall. Top 3 on exam was Hayden Hill-iard. Top medalist on role play went to Hayden Hilliard and Brandon Marks.In the Restaurant Food Services Melissa Collins was the first place overall winner. Patience Pearson took third place overall. Top medalist on exam was Melissa Collins and Top medalist on role play was Patience Pearson and Me-lissa Collins.Professional Selling Event overall first place honors went to Paul Weller. First place on exam also went to Paul Weller. Top medalist on role play was Court-ney Lord and Overall top 6 was Courtney Lord.In the Marketing Management competition Brody Swift took second place overall along with a first place on exam and the top medalist in role play. In the Advertising Campaign (written and presentation) was Kassandra Pitman who took second place overall. Kassandra also was top medalist on exam. In the Automotive Marketing Grace Boardman took third place overall winner and was top 3 on the exam portion. Congratulations Skyline DECA!

CTE Summer

Teacher Institutes

There will be four 2-day In-stitutes this summer for CTE teachers. Topics will include:• Analyzing assessment items• Building item banks• Building communities of practice• Presentation at the ACTEAZ 2011 summer conference.

The summer institutes will be held on the following dates at ASU downtown Phoenix Campus:

June 6-7 (Mon-Tues.)June 9-10 (Thurs. – Fri.)June 13-14 (Mon-Tues.)June 16-17 (Thurs. – Fri.)

If you are interested and would like to participate contact your CTE specialist.Lead Teacher Nomination Deadline: February 18, 2011

All nominations will be reviewed and teachers will be notified by email as to whether or not they have been selected following the February 18 deadline.

Skyline DECA Dominates Eastern Region Competition at MCC

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Westwood DECA Brings Home First and Second Place Honors at Regional Competition

Westwood’s Reta Yanik and her Ag students along with the CTE staff and CTE teachers assisted in putting to-gether backpacks for Junior High Counselor’s to give to incoming 7th grade students at the MPS District “Step Up Days”.

Each elementary school will be bused to their respec-tive Jr. High schools. While there they will receive in-formation from counselor’s regarding transitioning to the junior high.

This is a great opportunity for CTE to begin planting the seed in introducing students to what Career and Technical Education is and the options that are avail-able to students in the district. Approximately 5000 back packs were assembled. Students received a DVD, pencil, letter explaining CTE, Career Magazine, JH Course Information and ECAP brochure.

Dobson CTE visits Summit

Academy

Dobson CTE teachers embarked on the campus of Summit Academy. CTE teachers gave presentation re-garding their programs as well as displaying various items from rab-bits to woodworking projects. CTE teachers gave out brochures and various marketing materials that pro-mote the great programs of study that Dobson high school has to offer.Ag Teacher Darcy Cook interacts with students during visit.

Gene Martinez hands out CTE pencils to potential drafting students.

5000 CTE Back Packs assembled for

“Step Up Days”

Reta Yanik’s Westwood Ag students earn their service learning hours by helping the CTE staff assemble back packs for incoming 7th grade students.

REAL EDUCATION. REAL WORLD.

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April 21stSkylineRed Mountain

An email will be sent to all those teachers who are teaching end of program courses with logistics.

Remind students to do the follow-ing:

• Take the test seriously.

•No talking to other students during testing time.

•Students passing will receive rec-ognition from ADE and at the CTE reception.

For more information regarding assessments contact Cynthia Coor at ext. 87568 or Melissa Palmer at ext. 20358.

AIMS PREP TIPSIt’s time to help our CTE students prepare for the upcoming AIMS tests. The CTE Literacy Coaches have pre-pared the list of tips below for you to share with your students. A good way to start the conversation about this with the students is to have them respond to this question:What does the statement “The AIMS reading test is really a thinking test” mean?

ADE End of Program Assessment Schedule Test Taking Tips to be More Successful

Answering Questions Correctly on the AIMS Reading TestMany mistakes are made because students are not careful enough when reading the questions. If students do the following things they are likely to be success-ful:• Survey (glance over) each reading passage before beginning to read to see how many, and what types of questions are being asked*.

•Read each question carefully, circling or underlining key words in the question such as: supported inference, unsupported inference, least, most or best, not or except, what was the author’s purpose, based upon the passage, central argu-ment, etc.

•Before looking at the answer choices, have an answer in mind and then see which response most reflects your answer.

•For each item, read all the possible answers very carefully before selecting one – even if one of the first responses “seems right”.

•Think of multiple choice tests as a form of true/false tests - eliminate answers you know aren’t right.

•Pick out key words that determine the truth or falsity of a statement.

•Don’t keep on changing your answer; usually your first choice is the right one, unless you misread the question.

•In a question with an “All of the above” choice, if you see that at least two cor-rect statements, then “All of the above” is probably the answer.

•A positive choice is more likely to be true than a negative one.

•Usually the correct answer is the choice with the most information.

•Translate the information into a different form, substituting common words or changing the question into your own words.

•For most tests (including AIMS), attempt to answer all questions, regardless of the difficulty. If there is no guessing penalty, always take an educated guess and select an answer .

•Look for the best response. Often more than one answer is acceptable, but one is better than the other.

•Reread both the questions and the selections if there is anything you don’t fully understand.

•Reading the questions before the passage is often a mistake. When they do so, students are tempted to skim rather than read carefully, and don’t see the informa-tion in its correct context.

AIMS Prep Tips (con’t.)

Provisional EndorsementAnyone with a valid teaching or admin certificate prior to 8-31-2006 needs• 1 semester hour/ 15 clock hours SEI training

Anyone with a valid teaching or admin certificate issued after 8-31-2006 needs • 3 semester hour/ 45 clock hours SEI training

Full SEI endorsementAnyone with a valid teaching or admin certificate prior to 8-31-2006 needs• 4 semester hour/ 60 clock hours total SEI training

Anyone with a valid teaching or admin certificate issued after 8-31-2006 needs• 6 semester hour/ 90 clock hours total SEI training

This applies to anyone certified out of state as well. If they come in and get a reciprocal here, then their requirements for SEI are the same as above.

ESL and Bilingual endorsementsThose teachers that have a full ESL or Bilingual endorsement can waive the SEI training.

Those teachers coming from another state that have an out of state ESL endorsement can apply for a Full ESL here in AZ and if they qualify can get the ESL here.

SEI Endorsement

Mesa High Tour Huge Success

Mesa High CTE hosted 1600 eighth and ninth graders during four days of campus tours in January prior to registration. Before the tours could become a reality, each junior high’s administration, counselors, and CTE teachers had to work very hard to get all of the permission slips, chaperones, and classes covered. On each day of the tour, CTE tour guides met the junior high students and led groups through a paparazzi line comprised of football players, cheerleaders and student council members, into the auditorium. They were welcomed by Mr. Souder and treated to a fast paced introduction to the world of Mesa High. Enthusiasm ran high and the spirit of “Carry On” and “BAM” was introduced.

The high school counselors talked to all the incoming students and gave important information about registration for the 2011-2012 school year. Students were excused from the auditorium and toured all of the CTE areas, hearing from CTE teachers and seeing the wonderful opportunities that are available to them when they choose a CTE elective. When students got back to their home school, they were immediately given their registration packet which they were to take home and fill out with the help of their parents.

There have been many positive outcomes from the Junior High Tours. CTE has been able to form a unique partnership with the Mesa High counseling department and an opportunity to work closely with the administration, and other departments on the Mesa High campus. 167 current CTE students have had the opportunity to be tour guides answering questions and explaining programs. Collectively, these students have earned 900 service learning hours.

In thank you notes we received from the students we have heard comments like:

“It’s going to be hard to choose an elective class because they all look amazing.”

“All of your CTE classes look incredible. I’m particularly interested in…….”

“The three classes I liked the most were……..I can’t wait to take them..”

These junior high tours have been very successful in the past to help build and support the CTE programs at Mesa High School. We anticipate all CTE programs to explode next year based on the enthusiastic response from our future freshmen and sophomores.

On January 31, the chefs and owners of a local restau-rant called Down Under Bistro in Chandler came to Westwood’s Advanced Culinary class to teach them how to make crocodile pot stickers. The students got to cut up their own crocodile meat and work in their kitchens to make the pot stickers.

On February 1st, Chef Rebecca Chazan from Arizona Culinary Institute came in and talked to all of the culinary classes about going to culinary school. She mentioned the “Student-for-a-day” program they do with juniors and seniors where high school students get to go to ACI and attend classes for a day with the beginning students at ACI.

Westwood has had several students all ready participate in the “Student-for-a-day” program. Chazan talked about scholarship information, admissions information, and gave out pamphlets about the culinary program at ACI. The best part was when she taught all of the kids how to make Chocolate Tuxedo Strawberries and the students got to make them as well!

Westwood Culinary Learns from Industry Chefs