The benefits of aligning CTSO to national and state standards.

I have learned the importance of CTSOs and why they should be integrated into the classroom to ensure students success. 

Communicate with the dual credit school that is linked with my class to be more cohesive with their program. 

Creating a printed or online handout I can give to students with direct steps they can take towards reaching their pathway goal. 

Over the past few year we have had to redo our recruiting prefile based on how many students were available to goin the program. 

There is a teacher benefit to vertical alignment. I never thought about it from that persepctive. 

I knew to build my lesson scaffolding with terminology at the forefront but never really thought about why. I have a better understanding now of why using this instructional strategy helps students to build a foundation of learning that can allow them to develop more independence. 

To think for specifically on areas for improvement within certain job fields. For instance, this unit has inspired me to think further on how to use my grant money to further the education of students in health care and guide them towards nursing programs. I want to collaborate with local community college nursing programs to better spend these funds. 

This made me think of more ways to connect my students with our college success foundation and made me think to reach out to them to help organize specific field trips for my students in the health care field since I teach family health. 

To emphasize the high demand and high wage aspect of healthcare careers to my students.