General Financial Literacy

PLANNING FOR DISCIPLINARY LITERACY IN THE CTE CLASSROOM

Utilizing the CTE Literacy Framework

The CTE literacy framework helps solve the challenges surrounding student understanding of Career and Technical Education courses by providing scaffolding and tools to do four things: ● Read and summarize an article

● Thinking critically and answer questions ● Reflect on and respond to what they see ● Take a stand to support the evidence

Engaging career and technical education literacy is the umbrella over all components of a CTE lesson. Dialogue, reading and writing all support the most important goal - student understanding in the specific CTE cluster area. The intent of the approach outlined below is to thoughtfully and strategically use literacy techniques for a deeper understanding of career and technical education.

The CTE Literacy Framework Standard Addressed:

Define the standard or learning progression that you will be working on for students.

Goal Upon Completion:

Provide clarity for students by describing what they should be able to do by the end of the lesson in student friendly terms.

Engaging CTE Experience: Describe Computer Science - Interact with Data - Hands-on Lab Activity - Inquiry Activity Describes the methods and procedures of engaging students in Information Technology. Be attentive to the intellectual tasks students will be doing. Purposeful Reading:

Productive Dialogue : Write Discussion Frames for students to help lead them to the most important concepts. Teach the 4 L’s of productive dialogue, and assign partners for discussion.

Meaningful Writing : (Assessment)

Determine what text students will be reading, and list the scaffolds you will utilize to support :

Identify the writing; that will be utilized; complete the summary in a Cornell note, write a Claim, Evidence, Reason (CER); response, etc. Provide students with

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