Nuancing Your CTE Teaching Toolbox
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The Process
Foundations
Imprinting
What is this?
Imprinting
What is this?
Imprinting
What is this?
Imprinting
What is this?
The Neuroscience of Learning
Reading primarily activates the visual cortex (occipital lobe) and language processing centers (Broca’s area and Wernicke’s area in the temporal and frontal lobes).
Writing engages motor areas (premotor cortex and cerebellum for fine motor skills), language areas, and also areas for executive function (frontal lobe).
Speaking and listening activate auditory processing regions (temporal lobe) and motor areas responsible for speech production.
Hands-on activities (like drawing diagrams or role-playing) stimulate sensorimotor networks and often engage the hippocampus (for memory consolidation).
Backwards Design
1998 Course Planning
TEXT CHAPTERS
TEXT MATERIALS
MADE LESSONS PLANS FOR UNIT
TEXT TEST
MATCHED QCCS TO UNIT
Backwards Design
So my friend got pulled over and they didn’t read him his rights and he’s getting out of the ticket – right?!?!
Backwards Design
10 Years?
How can I know they know?
How can I get them to know?
Plan
Execute
Assess
Re-Teach?
Reflect
What do we want them to know?
How can we measure student understanding?
Plan for students to master this material.
The Brick
What is the rule for attention span?
INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES: LEGO BRICKS
90 Minute Class
55 Minute Class
110 Minute Class
INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES: LEGO BRICK
Assessment
Main
Opening
Transition
The Five
“The” Five Instructional Methodology
FOUNDATIONS
DIRECT INSTRUCTION
LEARNER FOCUSED ACTIVITIES
ASSESSMENT
INDUSTRY SKILLS
“The Five” Instructional Methodology
FOUNDATIONS
DIRECT INSTRUCTION
LEARNER FOCUSED ACTIVITIES
ASSESSMENT
INDUSTRY SKILLS
Foundation
Readings
Media
Vocab
Vocab
Word Structure
Definitions
Graphic Organizer
Vocab Quiz
Media
Download Youtube!
https://en.y2mate.is/x101/
Be careful what you click on :()
Always have a worksheet!
In order
Google Forms are awesome
Worksheet Generator
https://www.magicschool.ai/tools/youtube-video-question-generator
Readings
Match Reading Level or Language
Worksheet Generator
Test to Speech
What to read?
Textbooks
Wikipedia
Articles
Strategies to Activate Multiple Brain Centers
Read-Write-Speak Triads: Students read a concept, write about it in their own words, and then explain it to a peer.
Set the Stage
Conundrum or Cognitive Dissonance
Pursuit of Freedom is not in the Constitution
Media
Dirty War
Case Study
Cameron Todd Willingham
“The Five” Instructional Methodology
FOUNDATIONS
DIRECT INSTRUCTION
LEARNER FOCUSED ACTIVITIES
ASSESSMENT
INDUSTRY SKILLS
Content
Bricks are critical to keep student attention
Intro 🡪 Content 🡪 assess regularly 🡪Closing
Guided Notes?
Research support it
PowerPoint 10-20-30 rule
10 Slides, 20 minutes, 30 font
AI can help make decks better
Sage on the Stage is OK!
Complex concepts in particular
Story Telling
Let me tell you a little story about a man named Jed…
Precedent
First Amendment
What are the rights?
Mnemonic Devices
Greek “of Memory”
1st Amendment RAPPS
First Amendment
R
A
P
P
S
First Amendment
Religion
Assembly
Petition
Press
Speech
A bear has 2 arms = 2nd amendment right to bear arms
3 quarters to buy a coke for a soldier - quartering soldiers act
Fourth Amendment:
40
Contextualization
Personalization
42
“The Five” Instructional Methodology
FOUNDATIONS
DIRECT INSTRUCTION
LEARNER FOCUSED ACTIVITIES
ASSESSMENT
INDUSTRY SKILLS
Strategies to Activate Multiple Brain Centers
Read-Write-Speak Triads: Students read a concept, write about it in their own words, and then explain it to a peer.
Think-Pair-Share: Combines internal processing (thinking), verbal articulation (pairing), and social interaction (sharing).
Role-playing or simulations: Engage motor, emotional, and cognitive systems simultaneously.
Visualization and Drawing: Encourages learners to translate verbal information into visual representations, engaging spatial reasoning.
Gradual Release
I Do
U Do
We Do
Direct Instruction
Guided Practice
Independent Practice
Example Driven
Try
Pair
Share
Revise
Exemplar
Project Based Learning
Choose a case law. Research with at least three sources. Do a 5 slide deck to present in 2 days.
PBL Brick Style – Chunking 15-minute segments
Go to the list of cases
Look up at least three
Choose one case and find a great article on it – provide worksheet
Now find another great article – with worksheet
Now find one more – with worksheet
Provide first two template slides from deck
Provide next part of deck
Provide final part of deck and rubric
Have them practice their presentation with another.
Presentations
Only give one stage at a time
Many More
Collaborative investigations
Scenario analysis
Role-play
Case studies or simulations
“The Five” Instructional Methodology
FOUNDATIONS
DIRECT INSTRUCTION
LEARNER FOCUSED ACTIVITIES
ASSESSMENT
INDUSTRY SKILLS
Quick Assessment
When making a worksheet for media it is best:
Assessment
Whole day of training
Exams are great – police academy much?
Magic School & Eduaide have generators
AI can help you write good tests
Scenarios where you ask best option can achieve high level Bloom
“The Five” Instructional Methodology
FOUNDATIONS
DIRECT INSTRUCTION
LEARNER FOCUSED ACTIVITIES
ASSESSMENT
INDUSTRY SKILLS
Gradual Release
I Do
U Do
We Do
Direct Instruction
Guided Practice
Independent Practice
Skills – 1:5 ratio
Hands-on
Activity – reports
Role Play
Testify in mock case
Big Toolbox
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ChatGPT
Give me ideas on how to make high school law and public safety students in a cte course demonstrate industry skills related to the 4th amendment
Mock Traffic Stops: “Probable Cause or Not?”
Search Warrant Drafting
Crime Scene Search Simulation
Courtroom Role Play: Suppression Hearing
Case Study Analysis: Famous 4th Amendment Cases
“Do You Have a Warrant?” Game
Create Public Safety Training Videos
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