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Career and Technical Education - Leading the Way
Valley Education for Employment System

 

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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Professional development in the VALEES region focuses on promoting:

  • CTE programs that prepare students for success in a rapidly changing 21st century economy that requires more workers with technical skills
  • collaboration among CTE instructors to share ideas and instructional strategies
  • development of higher level technical skills
  • instructional best practices to link CTE curricula and academics
  • high level problem solving and innovative thinking within CTE curricula
  • awareness of career pathways and business operations that broadens educators and students understanding of 21st century careers

 

College graduate level courses designed to support VALEES' initiatives

Graduate Course Offerings Winter 2012

  • Problem Solving Strategies in CTE, Instructor: Dr. Ruth Badal.
    Tuesday evenings, Jan. 10-Feb. 28, 2012. Click here for a course description or for the course syllabus.

Through partnerships with Kane County Regional Office of Education, Aurora University, and Northern Illinois University, VALEES has offered the following courses:

  • 2010-2011
    • Career Preparation: Teaching Strategies
    • Motivate vfa Career Pathways
  • 2009-2010
    • Career Preparation: Teaching Strategies
    • Career Development-Raise the Bar, Close the Gap, and Cultivate Relationships
    • Problem Solving Strategies in CTE
    • Building Employability Skills for the 21st Century
  • 2008-2009
    • Reading and Literacy Strategies to Support CTE / Content Learners
    • Promoting Career and Academic Readiness in the Classroom Part 1
    • Promoting Career and Academic Readiness in the Classroom Part 2: Community/School Partnerships
    • Building Employability Skills in the 21st Century
  • 2007-2008
    • The Mathematical World
    • Building Employability Skills in the 21st Century
    • Preparing Students for Life! SEL, Mental Health and Career Development as Interventions Toward Students' Well-being

Counselor Summer Institute June 15-16, 2011

Wednesday, June 15: IIT Smart Grid Education & Workforce Training Center and Chicago Portfolio School; Thursday, June 16: Focus Optical Labs, Aurora and Burgess-Norton, Geneva
CLICK HERE FOR INFORMATIONAL FLYER

Building Partnerships for America's Future Institute: Tenth Annual, March 2, 2012

This annual all-day VALEES institute will be held at Waubonsee Community College, Academic and Professional Center, on March 2, 2012. Content strands include hands-on Web 2.0 training, career pathway strategies, common core standards, integrating reading and mathematics across the curriculum, social emotional learning, business partnerships, and a variety of curriculum and instruction related breakout sessions. Registration deadline is February 15, 2012.

Registration is now open for this event to be held on March 2, 2012. Click here for online registration.
VIP

 

Due to budgetary constraints, VALEES is unable to offer financial support for VIP experiences this year.