Career Ready Practices

1. Career Ready Practices Unpacking the Practices for the Classroom Webinar August 18, 2015

2. Today’s Presenters David McNair david.mcnair@doe.state.nj.us Melissa Stager melissa.stager@doe.state.nj.us Kathleen Paquette kathleen.Paquette@doe.state.nj.us Shubha Bhalerao shubha.bhalerao@doe.state.nj.us

3. Housekeeping

4. Agenda • 1. About the practices • 2. Why now? • 3. Practice 1-4 • 4. Practice 5 -8 • 5. Practice 9-12 • 7. Moving forward • We will have questions and polls in each of the practices segments. • Please ask questions throughout and a moderator will answer them individually or share them with the group.

5. What is one of the biggest predictors of future student success? http://growingleaders.com/blog/student-success

6. The 12 Career Ready Practices Act as a responsible and contributing citizen and employee. Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. Attend to personal health and financial well-being. Communicate clearly and effectively and with reason. Consider the environmental, social and economic impacts of decisions. Demonstrate creativity and innovation. Employ valid and reliable research strategies. Utilize critical thinking to make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. Model integrity, ethical leadership and effective management. Plan education and career paths aligned to personal goals. Use technology to enhance productivity. Work productively in teams while using cultural global competence.

7. Balance

8. Be more purposeful and explicit… Instead Of This… TRY THIS! “O.K., let’s get into our groups and discuss possible answers for the questions. Today, I want everyone to focus on active listening, and really hearing what each member thinks. This will help you in many situations. ” (CRP 4) Asking students what is our responsibility to help those in need locally? Discuss why we are having a food drive, and work it into the curriculum. (CRP 1) • “O.K., let’s get into our groups and answer the questions.” • Announcing we are going to collect food for the food pantry.

9. Why Now?

10. What would be the benefit of employing Career Ready Practices K-12?

11. Jobs of the Future

12. How it helps students • Better academic performance: achievement scores an average of 11 percentile points higher • Improved attitudes and behaviors: greater motivation to learn, deeper commitment to school, increased time devoted to schoolwork, and better classroom behavior • Fewer negative behaviors: decreased disruptive class behavior, noncompliance, aggression, delinquent acts, and disciplinary referrals • Reduced emotional distress: fewer reports of student depression, anxiety, stress, and social withdrawal http://www.casel.org/research#Field

13. Practice

14. Career Ready Practice 1Act as a Responsible and Contributing Citizen and Employee.

15. Unpacking Practice 1:Act as a Responsible and Contributing Citizen and Employee. • Career-ready individuals understand the obligations and responsibilities of being a member of a community, and they demonstrate this understanding every day through their interactions with others. They are conscientious of the impacts of their decisions on others and the environment around them. They think about the near-term and long-term consequences of their actions and seek to act in ways that contribute to the betterment of their teams, families, community and workplace. They are reliable and consistent in going beyond the minimum expectation and in participating in activities that serve the greater good.

16. What does it look like?Act as a Responsible and Contributing Citizen and Employee. Contributing Not, “What’s In It For ME?”.

17. Things you can do in the classroom Act as a Responsible and Contributing Citizen and Employee. Write/discuss a weekly reflection of what made an individual student or the class “successful”. Design an energy plan to reduce their home or school’s non-renewable energy consumption. Do a group storytelling exercise where each student adds a detail to the whole story to show how the combination of individual efforts produces a better end result. Encourage students to collect and distribute supplies as often as possible to assist the function of the classroom.

18. Career Ready Practice 2 Applies Appropriate Academic and Technical Skills.

19. Unpacking Practice 2Applies Appropriate Academic and Technical Skills. • Career-ready individuals readily access and use the knowledge and skills acquired through experience and education to be more productive. They make connections between abstract concepts with real-world applications, and they make correct insights about when it is appropriate to apply the use of an academic skill in a workplace situation.

20. What does it look like?Applies Appropriate Academic and Technical Skills. Using MaTh In ArT Not, Vacuuming The LAwn

21. Things you can do in the classroom Applies Appropriate Academic and Technical Skills. Apply Newton’s laws to a school sporting event and report your findings to the team. Examine advertising campaigns for similar products throughout the ages and create a chart of commonalities. Read a story and determine how a character used knowledge and skill to solve a problem. Deconstruct all the skills needed to write and publish a book.

22. Career Ready Practice 3Attends to Personal Health & Financial Well-Being.

23. Unpacking Practice 3Attends to Personal Health & Financial Well-Being. • Career-ready individuals understand the relationship between personal health, workplace performance and personal well-being; they act on that understanding to regularly practice healthy diet, exercise and mental health activities. Career-ready individuals also take regular action to contribute to their personal financial wellbeing, understanding that personal financial security provides the peace of mind required to contribute more fully to their own career success.

24. What does it look like?Attends to Personal Health & Financial Well-Being. Being Your Best Barely Making IT!

25. Things you can do in the classroomAttends to Personal Health & Financial Well-Being. Debate the topic of spending vs. saving money. Do problems to see how interest rates can be beneficial (savings) or detrimental (borrowing). Participate in a shared writing activity about what helps us stay healthy. Create a podcast, video, or multimedia presentation that promotes healthy practices.

26. Career Ready Practice 4Communicate Clearly and Effectively and with Reason.

27. Unpacking Practice 4Communicate Clearly and Effectively and with Reason. • Career-ready individuals communicate thoughts, ideas, and action plans with clarity, whether using written, verbal, and/or visual methods. They communicate in the workplace with clarity and purpose to make maximum use of their own and others’ time. They are excellent writers; they master conventions, word choice, and organization, and use effective tone and presentation skills to articulate ideas. They are skilled at interacting with others; they are active listeners and speak clearly and with purpose. Career-ready individuals think about the audience for their communication and prepare accordingly to ensure the desired outcome.

28. What does it look like?Communicate Clearly and Effectively and with Reason. This: NOT This:

29. Things You Can Do in the Classroom Verbal Written Write a guide to a student next year, informing him/her how to survive Algebra I. Practice writing effective, concise emails. • Interview someone about a past event (Vietnam War, Challenger Explosion, and the first VCR) and learn how to ask the right questions. Write a summary of the interview. • Model conversations with peers that they might have with other community members.

30. Which practice of 1-4, do you use most frequently in the classroom?

31. Career Ready Practice 5Consider the Environmental Social & Economic Impacts of Decisions.

32. Unpacking Practice 5Consider the Environmental Social & Economic Impacts of Decisions. • Career-ready individuals understand the interrelated nature of their actions and regularly make decisions that positively impact and/or mitigate negative impact on other people, organizations, and the environment. They are aware of and utilize new technologies, understandings, procedures, materials, and regulations affecting the nature of their work as it relates to the impact on the social condition, the environment and the profitability of the organization.

33. What does it look like?Consider the Environmental Social & Economic Impacts of Decisions. This: Not ThIS:

34. Things You Can Do in the Classroom Some ways this is demonstrated: • Understanding the real world limits of adopting new ideas • Realizing that decisions always have impact • Projecting the future effects of decisions Examples of Language Arts Classroom Activities: • Create a cause-and-effect pictogram (Early Elementary) • Read Flush by Carl Hiaasen, and discuss the impact of illegal dumping on the waterways (Late Elementary) • When learning how to debate, students will be provided assignments based on controversial environmental topics such as oil drilling and pesticide use (Middle School) • While reading Things Fall Apart, students will learn about Colonialism and Imperialism in various African countries. They will write an essay exploring the political, social and economic impacts of Colonialism/Imperialism in Nigeria (High School)

35. Career Ready Practice 6Demonstrate Creativity and Innovation.

36. Unpacking Practice 6Demonstrate Creativity and Innovation. • Career-ready individuals regularly think of ideas that solve problems in new and different ways, and they contribute those ideas in a useful and productive manner to improve their organization. They can consider unconventional ideas and suggestions as solutions to issues, tasks or problems, and they discern which ideas and suggestions will add greatest value. They seek new methods, practices, and ideas from a variety of sources and seek to apply those ideas to their own workplace. They take action on their ideas and understand how to bring innovation to an organization.

37. What does it look like?Demonstrate Creativity and Innovation. This: NOT tHis:

38. Things you can do in the classroomDemonstrate Creativity and Innovation Some ways this is demonstrated : • Creating multiple options • Acting on creative ideas • Creating products from ideas Examples of Social Studies Classroom Activities: • Use different voices or accents when reading stories to the class (Early Elementary) • Students can create their own form of government for the Classroom (Late Elementary) • Engage students while practicing translation skills. Students can decode newspaper articles from around the world using Microsoft Word’s Text-to-Table tool (Middle School) • Pick an influential historical figure from the unit currently being covered. Would the world be different if that person had never existed? Using your creativity, depict your viewpoint through a medium such as essay, original drawing or photograph, or song (High school)

39. What do you do to encourage student creativity? • Post the answer in the question section.

40. Career Ready Practice 7Employ Valid and Reliable Research Strategies.

41. Unpacking Practice 7Employ Valid and Reliable Research Strategies. • Career-ready individuals are discerning in accepting and using new information to make decisions, change practices or inform strategies. They use reliable research processes to search for new information. They evaluate the validity of sources when considering the use and adoption of external information or practices in their workplace situations.

42. What does it look likeEmploy Valid and Reliable Research Strategies This: NOT tHis:

43. Things you can do in the classroom Employ Valid and Reliable Research Strategies • Postsecondary and business/industry are looking for students/employees that have: The ability to find, evaluate and synthesize information from a variety of resources • Utilize the Internet as a research method • Analyze Case Studies • Conduct experiments • Develop a survey and evaluate the results The ability to use judgement • Gather evidence and postpone judgement until enough evidence is gathered • By providing examples, understand the difference between reliable and valid research sources • The ability to formulate a research question • Why is the research important? • What have other people done? • What have they found? • Would my study lead to greater understanding? • Development of a hypothesis • The ability to draw on personal experience and prior knowledge and relate it to new information • Making connections between ideas, concepts and real life http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html

44. Career Ready Practice 8Utilize Critical Thinking to Make Sense of Problems and Persevere in Solving Them.

45. Unpacking Practice 8Utilize Critical Thinking to Make Sense of Problems and Persevere in Solving Them • Career-ready individuals readily recognize problems in the workplace, understand the nature of the problem, and devise effective plans to solve the problem. They are aware of problems when they occur and take action quickly to address the problem; they thoughtfully investigate the root cause of the problem prior to introducing solutions. They carefully consider the options to solve the problem. Once a solution is agreed upon, they follow through to ensure the problem is solved, whether through their own actions or the actions of others.

46. What does it look like?Utilize Critical Thinking to Make Sense of Problems and Persevere in Solving Them. This: Not This:

47. Things you can do in the classroom • Develop problem solving skills through role play. Students will role play a school-related situation and discuss different ways to solve the problem that would satisfy all parties involved. • Make predictions through reading. Before reading a new book together in Language Arts, ask students what they think is happening in the picture on the front cover.  Have students make predictions on what will happen in the book. • Critically analyze and discuss assigned reading from the class novel using the Socratic Seminar method http://yoursmarticles.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/socratic-seminar.html#.VYGKxvlVhBc • Use the Understand, Plan, Solve (U.P.S.) method to solve equations. After providing students with a card divided into four sections and a mathematical problem to solve, they will use the following method to solve the equation: • Section 1: Understand the problem • Section 2: Plan how to solve the problem • Section 3: Solve the problem • Section 4: Check your answer

48. Which practice do your students need the most help with? • CRP 5 Consider the Environmental Social & Economic Impacts of Decisions • CRP 6 Demonstrate Creativity and Innovation • CRP 7 Employ Valid and Reliable Research Strategies • CRP 8 Utilize Critical Thinking to Make Sense of Problems and Persevere in Solving Them

49. Career Ready Practice 9Model Integrity, Ethical Leadership & Effective Management.

50. Unpacking Practice 9Model Integrity, Ethical Leadership & Effective Management. • Career-ready individuals consistently act in ways that align personal and community-held ideals and principles, while employing strategies to positively influence others in the workplace. They have a clear understanding of integrity and act on this understanding in every decision. They use a variety of means to positively impact the directions and actions of a team or organization, and they apply insights into human behavior to change others’ actions, attitudes and/or beliefs. They recognize the near-term and long-term effects that management’s actions and attitudes can have on productivity, morals, and organizational culture.