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Academic and CTE Collaboration

Virginia Resources for Collaborative Lesson Planning

• Virginia’s Standards of Learning
  The latest text of the Standards of Learning, plus teacher guides for many of the Standards.
• Verso
  A web-based tool designed to help teachers meet state and federal requirements for CTE. This site is also a resource for improving academic performance for all students and enhancing workforce quality by linking academic standards with occupational skills. It is based on connecting the Virginia Standards of Learning to the occupational skills identified in Career and Technical Education courses. Collaborative lesson ideas are included for some courses. From CTE Resource Center and the Virginia Department of Education, Office of Career and Technical Education Services.
• Tech Prep in Virginia
  Home site for information about Tech Prep in Virginia, including a statewide directory of programs offered by each consortium.
• Economics and Personal Finance
  Resources offered for a course that may be taught by History and Social Sciences teachers and/or Career and Technical Education teachers.
• Linking Leadership to Instruction: A Leadership Development Curriculum for Virginia Public Schools
  A Virginia-developed K-12 curriculum for teaching leadership skills across the curriculum.

Interdisciplinary and Multi-Subject Lesson Plans

• Interdisciplinary Lesson Plans—ERIC: Education Resources Information Center
  Multi-subject lesson plans for middle and high school students.
• Education World Interdisciplinary Lesson Plans
  A variety of interdisciplinary lessons, with levels ranging from K-12.
• Lessonplanspage.com
  A collection of multidisciplinary and other lesson plans for middle and high school students.
• Awesome Library - Lesson Plans Across Subjects
  Lots of links accessible by subject or grade level. Some are cross-disciplinary.
• Interdisciplinary Resources & Lesson Plans: TeachersFirst.com
  Links to lesson plans “written by experienced teachers who know classroom realities.” The lesson plans indicate grade level ranges, but teachers may want to adapt them to higher or lower grades by substituting advanced content or less advanced content suitable for their students.
• Lesson Plans from Microsoft
  Technology-related lesson plans searchable by grade level, theme, learning area, or product.
• Teach-Nology Interdisciplinary Lesson Plans
  A collection of interdisciplinary lesson plans for all grade levels through college.

Resources for Collaborative Instruction

• Academic Infusion and Integration (ACTE)
• Tools for Collaboration
  Strategies for using learning tools such as animators, avatars, blogs, e-mail, instant messages, and other technology-related resources.

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