Effective Teaching Strategies For Integrating VPI and Career/Technical Instruction
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In the past, the typical educational system disconnected academic learning from practical application of that learning. It promoted different levels of expectation from different students at the same school. The Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Amendments of 1998 require the integration of academic and career/technical education, emphasizing equal academic standards for all students.
The Tech Prep and School-to-Work initiatives are good examples of high-level
integration efforts. Dale Parnell, in Tech Prep Associate Degree, A Win/Win
Experience, states:
| Today, the advent of rapidly changing technologies, both at home and abroad, clearly signals the need for an educational system that combines the best in vocational and academic learning - that is, teaching academic foundation courses in a vocational setting. Such a strategy is generally referred to as applied academics. |
Integration is an attempt to make
the more rigorous parts of the academic curriculum more accessible to
a greater number of secondary and postsecondary students. This process
allows students to see the connections between much of symbolic academic
learning and its use in the fields of work in which they envision themselves.
In general, the process attempts to answer two questions: "Why do
I need to know this?" and "How will I ever use this?"
This program was developed by the State of Florida Adult Secondary/GED/VPI Committee of the Practitioners' Task Force, through an Adult Education State Leadership Grant from the Florida Department of Education, Division of Workforce Development.
Disclaimer: While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of this web-based training component, it is not an official publication of the Florida Department of Education.
