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Vocational Education; Cooperative Education; Coordinators; Secondary Schools; Vocational Training Centers; Delphi Technique; Academic Education; Barriers

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Cooperative education has been a long-standing component of career and technical education. The practice embodies many established theories of learning and is a premier delivery model for the school-to-work connections espoused by modern legislation. Yet in this era of high-stakes testing and academic accountability, allocated time for cooperative education at the secondary level is being reduced in favor of academic areas of accountability. Using a three-round Delphi technique, this study produced nine major categories containing 51 top issues perceived by secondary education diversified occupations and capstone cooperative education coordinators in Pennsylvania as significantly impacting their programs. Addressing these issues and overcoming the barriers to work-based education for all students can have far reaching implications for practitioners, policy makers and students. Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract

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Vocational Education; Secondary Education; Experiential Learning; Teacher Education; Vocational Education Teachers; Learning Theories; Cognitive Style

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Since inception, career and technical education programs have embraced experiential learning as a true learning methodology for students to obtain occupational skills valued by employers. Programs have integrated classroom instruction with laboratory experiences to provide students a significant opportunity to learn. However, it is questionable as to the level of authentic experiential learning instructional practices that are actually taking place. This paper explores the tenets of experiential learning and considers the application of true experiential learning pedagogy into secondary career and technical programs along with teacher education programs in career and technical education. If the concept of experiential learning instructional pedagogy is to provide an authentic context in which students can benefit from it, educators should expand their knowledge of implementing experiential learning into their programs. Additionally, career and technical education teacher educators may enhance their programs by providing instruction to pre-service teachers in authentic experiential learning pedagogy. (Contains 3 figures.) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract

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Delphi Technique; Leadership; Administrator Role; Administrators; Vocational Education; School Administration

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Career and technical administrators are faced with a variety of issues and challenges that include, but are not limited to, providing effective ways to help students increase their academic and technical achievement, addressing staff development needs, and integrating CTE with rigorous academic instruction. The emergence of the identified leadership issues was extensive, and the issues command a significant portion of a career and technical administrator's time and resources. This article describes a three-round Delphi approach that identified leadership issues confronting career and technical administrators at the secondary and postsecondary levels in Pennsylvania. The results of the study produced seven major categories and 38 major issues that have implications for career and technical education in Pennsylvania. Career and technical administrators, more than ever before, face increasing leadership issues that have far-reaching implications that will affect their abilities to deliver quality programming for students pursuing entry into the workplace and matriculation to higher education. Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract

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Awards; Student Organizations; Supervised Occupational Experience (Agriculture); Teacher Attitudes

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A survey of 127 teachers in Ohio and North Carolina with district Future Farmers of America proficiency winners, and in Pennsylvania with state winners, and of 230 teachers without winners in class received 163 responses. A significant relationship appeared between teacher attitudes toward proficiency awards and supervised agricultural experience. The number of awards was significantly related to teacher attitudes. (SK) Note:The following two links are not-applicable for text-based browsers or screen-reading software. Show Hide Full Abstract

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Geometry; Instruction; Learning Activities; Secondary Education; Secondary School Mathematics; Spatial Relationship; Teaching Guides; Worksheets

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Instructions are given for the use of worksheets whose objectives are to challenge and develop spatial visualization through the mental folding, rotating, and intersecting of cubes. (MP)

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