TECHNICAL SKILLS STRATEGIES

• Develop competencies over the course of the project

• Students have individual jobs for the day/week

• Students learn each technical skills to earn small incentives

• Providing students with more industry recognized credentials attainment

• Use skills trackers (food processing, plant propagation, etc.)

• Safety first - Address issues immediately and reteach safety continuously

• Opportunities to demonstrate skills in other ways or other times

• Using Pre & Post Assessments and goal setting

• Interactive notebooks for organization and responsibility

  • understanding responsibility of record keeping

EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS STRATEGIES

• Tie attendance and tardiness to professionalism

• Provide with a rubric for group projects to demonstrate teamwork

• Have employability scores embedded in the projects

• Weekly employability skills rubric

PACTEC REGION SECONDARY

• Banks

• Terra Nova BSD

• Creekside

  • Agriculture

  • Natural Resources

• Forest Grove

• Gaston

• Hillsboro High

• Hillsboro Online Academy

• Liberty

• Scappoose

• Sherwood

• Vernonia

PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS SECONDARY

• Alliance

• McDaniel

PCC POST-SECONDARY

• GIS and Geospatial Technologies

• Landscape Technology

• Veterinary Technology

Clean Water Services

cleanwaterservices.org 

Food Innovation Center

fic.oregonstate.edu 

Scappoose Bay Watershed Council

scappoosebay-wc.org/ 

Oregon Agriculture Teacher’s Association (OATA) - ovata.org

Oregon Natural Resource Educators Association (ONREA) -  https://www.oregonfnrl.org/onrea 

Torchmate CNC Machines -  torchmate.com