DMEC Career & Technical Education Podcast

DMEC Career Tech Teacher Leads LDC Roll-out

Mr. Toby Craver, Agriculture Instructor at Oden High School in the Ouachita River School District, spoke to a live studio audience at the Arkansas Educational Television Network about his experiences delivering Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC), the state's professional development procedure for delivering Common Core standards in high schools.

LDC & CTE: Reading, Writing, Collaborating

Presentation from SREB's Common Core State Networking Conference in Charlotte, NC, July 2013. Educators from the DeQueen-Mena Education Service Cooperative explain how they used LDC and technology to deliver the new standards while remaining true to their CTE content.

Writing Reviser

Using Writing Reviser as a way for students to edit their own work before submitting.

Teaching High School Students

This is a recording of a session I did with a group of Secondary Tech Center teachers. These are college instructors that are asked to teach high school students and sometimes both have an incomplete understanding of each other with regard to expectations. During this session, I cover a few key aspects to earning cooperation and effort from high school students.

SAM 2007 Workshop

This episode is a recording of a SAM 2007 training held here at DMEC on February 1st. SAM (Skills Assessment Manager) is a proficiency-based assessment and training environment for Microsoft® Office. SAM offers instructors a choice of the way they want to use our content. Students are continually engaged in their learning. SAM is part of a Perkins project within the DMEC Consortium schools aimed at increasing the passage rate of IC3.