Reflection & Planning for Future Progress CVUHSD Academy Retreat 2011.

All Aspects of the IndustryReflection & Planning for Future Progress

CVUHSD Academy Retreat 2011

What is All Aspects of the Industry?All Aspects is an integral part of the 1998

Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Act (Perkins III)

A provision of this act calls for students to have “strong experience in and an understanding of those aspects of industry the students are preparing to enter”

Education for All Aspects of the Industry

AAI addresses educational reform that aims to:

combine learning and experience

integrate vocational and academic education

develop more interdisciplinary instruction

forge links between schools, businesses, and community institutions

Rationale for the AAI ApproachLearning is more effective when vocational

education is integrated with instruction about the context in which graduates will work

Since long-term employment with one firm is increasingly unlikely, young people need broad skills that will prepare them to do a variety of jobs

Employers continually demand higher-skilled workers

The AAI Worksheet

All Aspects of the Industry serves as an

organizer for curriculum rather than an end in

itself.

AAI Academy Self-ReflectionTo what degree has your academy completed this

document?To what degree did your academy use this document to

inform curricular planning?Even if your academy did not complete this document last

year, did your academy implement any of the activities generated by reflection upon the mandatory components?If so, how did it go? How challenging was it to integrate

activities that addressed these components?Choose one activity that was implemented as a product of the

AAI worksheet and debrief the following: How was the effectiveness of the activity assessed in terms

of student mastery of the mandatory component? Were students explicitly aware of the industry

skills/knowledge they acquired, in addition to specific career/technical skills and/or academic content, as a result of the activity?

Share OutAcademies that have completed (or come

close!) the AAI worksheet and utilized it for curriculum planning:Please share your experiences from last year.

What was successful? Challenging? How was the AAI worksheet useful?

Academies that have not completed the AAI worksheet or didn’t explicitly use it for curriculum planning:Describe the challenges to utilizing this

document. What is needed for you to be able to complete and utilize this document this school year?

Some AAI ResourcesThe following can be found through links on

the CV website under the Academy Retreat 2011

All Aspects Web Diagram w/ Descriptors

All Aspects: An Informational Source Book

Includes sample instructional topics, analysis questions, and connections to workplace skills

All Aspects of the Industry Resource Website

AAI Work TimeAs you work on

beginning/revising/tweaking this document, consider where

these aspects can integrate best into your cross-curricular

projects