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Monitoring Form
Monitoring Form
SCHENECTADY CITY SCHOOLS – CTE APPROVAL PROCESS
SCHENECTADY CITY SCHOOLS – CTE APPROVAL PROCESS
EXTERNAL REVIEW TEAM MONITORING REPORT
EXTERNAL REVIEW TEAM MONITORING REPORT
Program: IT Essentials Date: 3/11/2020
Program: IT Essentials Date: 3/11/2020
This is a new monitoring form that we have adapted from an example on the NYSCTE-Technical Assistance Center website. If you have participated in our external reviews before, please note that there are changes. Please review these materials prepared for SED Approval and indicate your findings in the appropriate column, with an explanation for any revisions or required actions. A copy of the actual form is here.
The Curriculum
- Is aligned to CDOS standards, CCTE (Common Core Technical Standards) 21st Century Skills and NYS Common Core Standards
- Has been developed by CTE and reviewed by core academic teachers
- Prepares students for a technical assessment and for postsecondary education, employment, training, and/or military service
- Is directly related to available work-based learning experiences
Teacher Certification
Teacher(s) of the program:
- Is appropriately certified
- Has relevant industry-based experience
- Has access to professional training to acquire/improve skills/knowledge
Where you can find the answers to these questions:
Technical Assessments
- Are industry/consortium developed
- Have 3 parts—written, student demonstration, student project
- May be administered part by part at various times other than completion of program
- Allow for test modifications for students with disabilities
- May be retaken number of times determined by the school
Post-Secondary Articulation
- Is documented by an up-to-date agreement
- Provides for cooperative development of curriculum, instruction, student performance assessment, and program evaluation
- Specifies the credits/advanced standing for students after high school graduation
- Clearly identifies prerequisite skills, knowledge, or coursework and course sequences
- Clearly specifies the roles and responsibilities of each party
- Is endorsed by each institution and reauthorized regularly
- Specifies duration of agreement
- Uses a format acceptable to each institution
Work-Based Learning
- Is cooperatively planned by school and employer
- Complies with federal and State labor laws and Dept. of Labor regulations
- Is accessible to students with disabilities
- Is supervised and coordinated with formal procedure(s)
- Specifies time requirements that CTE students must devote to the work experience
- Is coordinated by an appropriately certified individual
- May occur at sites external to school setting
- Is sufficient in length and vigor to contribute to student learning of the NYS Learning Standards and the CTE program goals
- Complies with Commissioner’s Regs
Employability Profile
- Is developed and maintained with student’s career plan for each student in the program in accordance with district policy
- Is reviewed and updated by student and guidance personnel
- May occur external to the school setting
- student’s technical skills/knowledge (as early as 9th grade)
- mastery of CDOS standards
- clinical or work experience, internships, career exploration, supportive employment programs
- performance on CTE courses and other courses completed
- honors related to CTE program
- endorsements and licenses
Program Information
- Presents clear CTE program options for all students (including SWDs)
- Is disseminated according to district procedures
- Does not imply NYSED endorsement of proprietary products, services, e.g., curriculum/tech assessments
- May include NYS CTE endorsement
- Options/enrollment procedures available to all students, parents
- Includes statement of equal access
- Provides for teacher/guidance personnel awareness of credit, technical assessment, diploma endorsement, etc.)
- Is available in accessible format upon request
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