Professional Development for Career Educators. ERIC Digest.

Item request has been placed!

Item request cannot be made.

Processing Request

Read Online Read More Add to Saved list

Author(s): Brown, Bettina Lankard; ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult, Career, and Vocational Education, Columbus, OH.
Language:
English
Publication Date:
2002
Document Type:
ERIC Publications
ERIC Digests in Full Text

Additional Information
- Availability:
  For full text: http://www.ericacve.org/pubs.asp.
- Peer Reviewed:
  N
- Source:
  4
- Sponsoring Agency:
  Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED), Washington, DC.
- Subject Terms:
  Appropriate Technology; Career Academies; Career Counseling; Career Education; Career Exploration; Change Strategies; Classroom Techniques; Conferences; Critical Thinking; Education Work Relationship; Educational Change; Educational Theories; Governance; Inservice Teacher Education; Integrated Curriculum; Interpersonal Competence; Knowledge Base for Teaching; Learning Processes; Literature Reviews; Mentors; Modeling (Psychology); Postsecondary Education; Professional Continuing Education; Professional Development; Student Needs; Teacher Collaboration; Teacher Education; Teacher Effectiveness; Teacher Role; Teacher Student Relationship; Teacher Workshops; Teaching Methods; Tech Prep; Technological Literacy; Thinking Skills; Unions
- Abstract:
  New approaches to career and technical education (CTE) create new roles for career educators, including providing career awareness, counseling, guidance, and self-education. Career educators must understand and reflect upon career development theories; teaching and learning strategies; school-to-work practices; school/business linkages; and technology use for career development. Because these are continually evolving in focus and design, career educators need ongoing education to both support their teaching and their assumption of new roles as coach, collaborator, business partner, and technology advocate. Professional development is a key tool for career educators to use in enhancing interpersonal skills such as communication, negotiation, and teamwork. In order to best serve teachers, professional development activities must have the following characteristics: (1) ongoing and long term; (2) job-embedded and inquiry-based; (3) supportive of current teaching beliefs; (4) related to reform efforts; (5) based upon appropriate adult learning experiences; and (6) support systemic change. (Contains 12 references.) (AJ)
- Publication Date:
  2003
- Accession Number:
  ED472602

Comments

No Comments.