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Why Should We Care About Vocational Education?

Mark PhillipsMay 29, 2012

Tags Career and Technical Education, Education Reform, Integrated Studies, Project-Based Learning, Student Internships, Technology Integration, High (9-12), All Grades

Some years ago I was hired by Norway's Ministry of Education to train vocational education teachers. Having myself attended a comprehensive high school where vocational students were those who couldn't make it academically, and having taught in a suburban high school where there was zero vocational education, it was eye-opening to be in a country where vocational education had high prestige, was well-funded, and included students who could have gone to medical school if that had been their preference.

Flip Bits Not Burgers: Google's Summer of Code

Shahzad SaeedFebruary 9, 2012

Tags Business Partnerships, Career and Technical Education, Online Learning, Project-Based Learning, Student Internships, Technology Integration, High (9-12)

Larry Page, one of the co-founders of Google, was very thoughtful about the age-old problem of educational slip back. He noted that many brilliant computer students who worked hard during their senior academic year would fail to find further educational or meaningful employment opportunities once they graduated. This would then begin the deterioration of their technical skill set.

Helping Students Deal with Uncertainty in the Classroom

Ben JohnsonAugust 16, 2011

Tags Curriculum, Student Engagement, Student Internships, Teacher Development, Upper Elementary (3-5), Middle (6-8), High (9-12)

I did an experiment with a group of adult educators. I gave them very vague instructions on how to arrange groups. The goal was that each educator would participate in four different groups. I told them that the composition of each group had to be different. Some of the adults were willing to work it out, trial and error even. Others would get to a point and then realize that they did not understand completely what to do and then would ask questions.

Student Internships: Building a Bigger Pipeline to STEM

Suzie BossMay 5, 2011

Tags Biology, Business Partnerships, Career and Technical Education, Community Partnerships, Integrated Studies, Student Internships, Technology Integration, Chemistry, All Grades, Math, Science, Visual Arts, Ohio

For students who are curious about science, a medical center offers a world of interesting questions to investigate. Since 2005, hundreds of motivated high school students have spent their summers as paid interns

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