This blog series provides readers with insight on the valuable content that is being shared at the Career Clusters ® Institute. Guest bloggers are among teachers, faculty, researchers and other experts that will present at the national gathering in Fort Worth, TX in June. Today’s guest blogger is Dr. Sandra Pritz, Senior Consultant, NOCTI.
Strategies to improve instruction are embedded in your students’ data if you know how to mine for them. CTEDDI (Career Technical Educators using Data-Driven 
Instruction) is a researched professional development mining tool, and the model can be implemented in various ways to meet needs at the state or local level.
Educators say they welcome evaluations of their practice and programs, but need more support in interpreting and using student assessment data to make their instruction more effective and help their students achieve at higher levels and meet their learning objectives. Increasingly, evaluations of schools, programs, and teachers are being tied to student achievement.
To help schools, teachers, and students excel, NRCCTE researchers at NOCTI spent three years researching, developing, and pilot testing CTEDDI—a professional development model that empowers CTE administrators and educators to use student assessment data to enrich classroom practice, capture student interest, effectively target individual and group learning needs, and meet student learning objectives (SLOs).
Unlike out-of-the-box, one-shot professional development, with CTEDDI:
- Training is highly interactive and customized.
- Professional development is a year-long process rather than a one-time event, with participants receiving ongoing support and mentoring.
- Educators use their own students’ data to create classroom- and student-level instructional improvement plans.
- Educators participate in an online collaborative community of practice with CTEDDI participants across the country.
- Educators are assisted in making systematic and strategic instructional decisions that can result in higher student scores and teacher performance evaluations.
CTEDDI technical assistance is available at the secondary and postsecondary level for states, districts, and/or schools and can be customized to meet specific needs. Join educators in California, Maine, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Chicago who are currently participating in CTEDDI. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 
Come and find out how the process model can be replicated using the action planning process as long as you have mined your data. At the session, small groups will mine ideas from sample technical skills data.
For more information, go to www.nocti.org
Dr. Pritz’s breakout session is Tuesday, June 11, 2013 in Session C, 8:45 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. and is described more fully on page 19 in the Institute program booklet.
Ramona Schescke, Member Services Manager
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