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| Instructor: John Roper Mass. Center for Career & Technical Education 758 Marrett Road Lexington, MA 02421-7313 Daytime Phone: 781/863-1863 Evening Phone: 978/352-2342 Fax Number: 781/863-9965 Email address: [email protected] |
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| Office Hours: Wednesday, 10 AM to 4 PM Thursday, 7 PM to 7:30 PM Or by appointment. |
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| Course Objectives This course will allow students to develop a performance based curriculum that will meet all requirements of the Massachusetts Department of Education as well as the standards of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. In this course, students will conduct occupational research, develop program task listings, analyze tasks, and design performance assessments. Successful completion of this couorse is required to obtain vocational teacher approval. |
| Required Readings Bottoms, G., Pucel, D. and Phillips, I. (2000). Designing challenging vocational courses: a guide to preparing a syllabus. Atlanta, GA: Southern Regional Education Board Finch, C.R. & Crunlilton, J.R. (1998). Curriculum development in vocational and technical education, 5. Newton, MA: Allyn & Bacon. Huston, J. (1992) Competency based education: professional development series. Stillwater, OK: Mid-America Vocational Curriculum Consortium. |
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| Periodicals & Internet Resources Holt, E.R. (1989). Labor studies in the curriculum. ERIC Document Reproducttion Service No. ED 309 132. Wagner, J. (1990). Locating vocational education curriculua. ERIC Digest . ERIC Document Reproduction Service # ED 318 915 Web Sites that should be consulted: Virginia Department of Education (www.pen.k12.va.us) contains a set of competencies that can be used to model task listings for this class. The specific URL for the competency listing is http://www.cteresource.org/VDOE/CTE/ cbeindex.html Mass. Center for Career & Technical Education (www.mccte.org) contains resources specific to the Certificate of Occupational Proficiency and task listings as they are released by the Mass. State Board of Education. |