Tech Prep Resources CURRICULUM / LESSON IDEAS     Career Connections     Career Voyages     GetTech.org     Every15Minutes     CORD     Excel Gradebook     Contextual Learning Resources     Education of Young Children     PA Career And Technical Education Curriculum Resource Site     Family and Consumer Science CAREER INFORMATION     Career Connections     Career Voyages     GetTech.org     PA Department of Education     CORD     WorkKeys     Lehigh Valley At Work     NOCTI (National Occupational Testing Institute)     The Career Zone     Bureau Of Labor and Statistics - Career Exploration     Vocational Information Center ADMINISTRATIVE     Career Connections     Career Voyages     GetTech.org     Tracking Program for Tech Prep     EdNA     PA Department of Education     PA School Profiles     Standard and Poor's Report     IU 20      Kirkwood Community College     ePDE Web Portal and PA PowerPort User Guide

Career Connections - Fairfax County School System - Fairfax County, Virginia   Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) career guidance initiative, known as Career Connections, is designed for grades K - 12. Its success depends on the cooperative effort of students, parents, teachers, counselors, and the community. This web site is an information source designed to connect these groups. [top]

Career and Technical Education Web Resources - Vocational Information Center Explore vocational and technical careers, check out the skills employers really want, find a trade school, research technical topics and take a look at the current job market.  An excellent one-stop, find-all site. [top]

The Ultimate Road to Career Success   Start exploring career options and be demand by knowing about high growth jobs with better wages and brighter future. [top]

Target Your Interests   Target Your Interests and begin by selecting the interest area that appeals to you the most.  This is an excellent website to begin to connect your interests to future career pathways. [top]

Explore your career choices using the Bureau of Labor and Statistic Website.   Match your interests to career possibilities.  Use this excellent resource to focus your career plans with academic and technical skills to be included in your secondary and postsecondary program. [top]

ePDE Web Portal and PA PowerPort User Guide   Check this out to:  1) Find out what you must do prior to using ePDE Web Portal; 2)  Discover how to setup ePDE Security; 3) Request access to CATS; SAM; 3) Identify administrative functions; 4) information on PDE PowerPort. [top]

Pennsylvania Career And Technical Education Curriculum Resource Site   The Career and Technical Education Curriculum Resource site will guide you to resources and information provided by the Bureau of Career And Technical Education. You can select any of the occupational and educational areas to learn about what career and technical programs are offered in Pennsylvania.  Tech Prep curriculum site for PA. and High Schools That Work. [top]

Every15Minutes   Every15Minutes ... Life's lessons are best learned through experience. Unfortunately, when the target audience is teens and the topic is drinking and driving, experience is not the teacher of choice. The "Every 15 Minutes Program" offers real-life experience without the real-life risks. This emotionally charged program, entitled Every 15 Minutes, is an event designed to dramatically instill teenagers with the potentially dangerous consequences of drinking alcohol. This powerful program will challenge students to think about drinking, personal safety, and the responsibility of making mature decisions when lives are involved. [top]

Occupational Outlook Quarterly, Winter 2001-2002   Highlights of the 2000-2010 Projections:  The Bureau's projections contain considerable detail about the structure of the economy, the demographic makeup of the labor force, and changes in employment for nearly 700 occupations and more than 250 industries. [top]

Tracking System for Tech Prep Students   The Star Tech Prep Consortium in Texas presented a tracking system that tracks tech prep students from secondary to post secondary.  Basically, what this system entails, is an online database that allows students at the secondary level to enroll in tech prep.  You can this online process by logging on to their web site at http://www.swtjc.cc.tx.us/ and with the "Web Directory" on the homepage link to "Tech Prep" and then apply online. [top]

ArchiCAD   We talked about the ArchiCAD software in the "Shared Visions" Art / Architecture / CAD / Cluster in October.  Special arrangements have been made by Professor Trionfo at NCC with the President of Graphisoft to provide this software for schools in the Lehigh Valley.  Please Contact Tech Prep Office at NCC for more information. [top]

EdNA   (Education Names and Addresses) can be used to find name, address, administrator, and related information about the educational entities that PDE serves. These entities include school districts and their schools, intermediate units, area vocational technical schools, charter schools, nonpublic and private schools, higher education institutions, and many more. [top]

PDE   Browse the PDE site to get the info you need to stay current with educational reforms in PA; Act 48; Standards in Math, Reading, Proposed Academic Standards, e-PDE portal, e-GRANTS, Program Approval (CATS). [top]

School Profiles   The School Profiles are part of the PA System of School Assessment (PSSA). The information contained in the School Profiles is meant to assist public school personnel and all citizens in evaluating a public school's qualities. [top]

Powerful Diagnostic Tools   S&P Observations: Read Standard & Poor's summary report on each school system and learn about its relative strengths, challenges, risks, and educational return on resources.  Whether you are a parent, taxpayer, educator, school administrator, or policy maker, you can use this site to make informed decisions regarding your schools. [top]

CORD   CORD is a national nonprofit organization providing innovative changes in education to prepare students for greater success in careers and higher education. [top]

CSI   The consortium of 7 schools from the western, central, and eastern regions of PA collaboratively established standards for career / technical education programs that are integrated with the existing math and science standards. [top]

IU20   Intermediate Unit 20 provides support and services for children with special needs, staff development opportunities for teachers, as well as technical and instructional resources and services to thirteen school districts in Northampton, Monroe, and Pike counties. [top]

ACT, Inc & "WORK KEYS"   ACT, Inc., is an independent, not-for-profit organization that provides more than a hundred assessment, research, information, and program management services in the broad areas of educational planning, career planning, and workforce development.  Work Keys®, ACT's comprehensive system for improving the workforce, can serve as a rallying point for these efforts:  Employers can identify and develop workers for a wide range of skilled jobs; Students and workers can document and advance their employability skills; Educators can tailor instructional programs to help students acquire the skills employers need. [top]

Excel Gradebook   Here is a faculty resource used by Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota that you may find helpful in developing your own Excel spreadsheet for your classes.  You will need some background in Excel to get started.  Might serve as a model for developing a Faculty Resource Page of your own for your school.  Check it out! [top]

My Grade Book   Welcome to mygradebook.com, a web-based teacher gradebook useful in enhancing communication between teachers, students and parents in ALL levels of education.  Individual may obtain a 60 day trial and group rates are available. [top]

Lehigh Valley at Work   Seeking a job?  Are you an employer?  Are you seeking a site for career development?  Are you seeking information about living and working in the Lehigh Valley?  This is the site that has everything! [top]

Contextual Learning Resources   According to contextual learning theory, learning occurs only when students (learners) process new information or knowledge in such a way that it makes sense to them in their own frames of reference (their own inner worlds of memory, experience, and response). This approach to learning and teaching assumes that the mind naturally seeks meaning in context that is, in relation to the person's current environment and that it does so by searching for relationships that make sense and appear useful. [top]

National Association for the Education of Young Children   The National Association for the Education of Young Children is the nation's largest and most influential organization of early childhood educators and others dedicated to improving the quality of programs for children from birth through third grade. [top]

Center for the Child Care Workforce   The Center for the Child Care Workforce (CCW) was founded in 1978 as the Child Care Employee Project, at a time when low compensation and high turnover in the child care workforce were rarely, if ever, talked about - either within or outside the field - as problems in need of serious discussion and action for change. In the year 2000, the situation is utterly changed: the staffing crisis in our profession is now at the heart of the child care policy debate, and the link between good jobs for child care teachers and providers, and good care for young children, is almost universally recognized. [top]

Greetings from Kirkwood Community College   Kirkwood Community College worked with college's registrar and computer programmer over the past several years to develop a system for processing and managing articulated courses.  It begins with a website http://www.kirkwood.cc.ia.us/ where schools can access all articulated courses, forms, and processes under the category of "high school". [top]

National Occupational Competency Testing Institute The National Occupational Competency Testing Institute (NOCTI) is a leading provider of occupational competency assessments and services. We are dedicated to providing relevant quality products and services for the assessment of workforce competence. NOCTI's products and services include job and task analysis, test development, written and performance assessments, scoring services and specialized reporting. Our clients have the option of selecting from over 170 standardized technical tests in a variety of occupational fields or customizing assessments for their specific needs. [top]

GetTech   The GetTech program has broadcast its message to students, teachers, parents and the public through public service announcements, posters and flyers, and its award winning web site, http://www.gettech.org/.  It has mailed materials to teachers and counselors through the U.S. Department of Education.  It has provided career education information to more than 1,000, 000  hits on its web site.  It has presented materials to students and teachers, as well as business leaders, to carry its message, that the business world of the future is going to be dependent on workers who have strong skills in mathematics, science and technology. [top]