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Resources for 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.
• Enhanced Scope and Sequence
  A resource to help teachers align their classroom instruction with the Standards of Learning. It provides lesson plans that could be adapted to collaborative teaching. From the Virginia Department of Education.
• Tech Prep in Virginia
  Home site for information about Tech Prep in Virginia, including a statewide directory of programs offered by each consortium.
• Teaching the SOLs
  A series of K–12 lesson plans created by University of Richmond students.
• 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: The Educator’s Reference Desk
  Academic, CTE, and cross-disciplinary lesson plans for elementary, 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.
• Applications of Work and Learning National Project
  A Canadian site allowing users to search for workplace applications that reinforce academic skills.
• Busy Teachers Web Site K-12
  A series of links for cross-disciplinary lessons related to health and nutrition.
• Academy Curricular Exchange
  A series of links for various academic disciplines, organized by grade level. Some lesson plans are multidisciplinary; e.g., under Science, see “Science Working in Business and Industry,” and under Language Arts, see “Inventions.”
• Awesome Library - Lesson Plans Across Subjects
  Lots of links accessible by subject or grade level. Some are cross-disciplinary.
• Interdisciplinary Projects & Plans: TeachersFirst.com
  Links to “projects that cut across traditional subject divisions and introduce concepts in an integrated fashion.” The projects are listed by grade level, teachers may want to adapt them to higher or lower grades by substituting advanced content or less advanced content suitable for their students.
• Teachers Net
  A collection of links from this network of teacher-contributed lessons. Click on “lesson plans” and then on the subject of your choice. Many are adaptable to interdisciplinary collaboration.
• Multi-Subject Lesson Plans
  Examples of multi-subject lesson plans include the following:
  • “Indispensable Listening Skills”
  • “The structure and systems of the human body”
• Lesson Plans 4 Teachers
  Interdisciplinary lesson plans with grade levels indicated.
• Lesson Plans from Microsoft
  Technology-related lesson plans searchable by grade level, theme, learning area, or product.

Tools for Collaborative Lesson Planning

• Graphic Organizers
  Teaching Resources from Laura Candler.
• The Internet: Ideas, Activities, and Resources
  A series of links related to use of the Internet in schools. Topics range from Internet basics and "netiquette," to teacher resources, to research and problem-solving on the web.

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