Apt 102 Skill 1.6

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Effective Teacher in selecting activities:

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Select appropriate activities and classroom situations in which learning is optimized. The clasroom teacher should manipulate instructional activities and classroom conditions in a mannter that enhances group and individual learning opportunities. For example, the classroom teacher can organize group learning activities in which students are placed in a situation in which cooperation, sharing ideas, and discussion occurs. Cooperative learning activities can assist students in learning to collaborate, share personal and cultural ideas, and values in a classroom learning environment.

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Effective Teacher in integrating academics:

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Recognize the necessity to integrate academic and vocational learning, as the transition from school to work has prven a rocky road for students of teh 21st century. With heavy academic loads and pressures to perform well on mandated tests, students are finding it increasingly difficult to find relevance in or connect to the instrucitonal content and apply it to their own lives.

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Effective Teacher with opportunities:

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Takes every opportunity to make real-world associations within all subjects and lessons. The teacher should also explicitly make connections between an academic skill and working world, and not simply assume the students will be able to make these connections on their own.

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Authentic Learning/Work Experiences:

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Exposing students to key facets of the working world is an important aspect of authentic learning experiences. It is important to take every opportunity to show an active relationship between the students' textbooks and the world around them.

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Authentic Learning and Work Experiences into the classroom:

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1. Invite business and community leaders to speak aobut their careers and have them ask many questions.
2. Arrange a field trip to a local business where students can observe the environment and speak with employees.
3. Incorporate news and published works from teh working world that are related to a lesson. When reading a novel in language arts class, include an interview with the author about the writing process.

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Expanding students' knowledge of career opportunities:

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1. Find magazine or internet articles listng different types of job groupings and use them as discussion points.
2. During a larger lesson unit, make time to include a discussion about what jobs exist related to the instructional content.