Florida's Applied Technology Curriculum Planning Companion for the Sunshine State Standards

FLORIDA REGIONAL WORKFORCE BOARDS
Preparing All Learners for Tomorrow's Work Force: Florida's Applied Technology Curriculum Planning Companion for the Sunshine State Standards
http://www.fldoe.org/workforce/title.asp
Efforts are currently focused on the dissemination and training regarding the Office of Workforce Education's latest division wide application document PREPARING ALL LEARNERS FOR TOMORROW'S WORKFORCE: Florida's Applied Technology Curriculum Planning Companion for the Sunshine State Standards.
This document is a resource and a guide for local educational communities as they restructure their schools and programs. It presents broad, comprehensive concepts and ideas for development of curriculum, instruction and assessment.
Instruction in all subject areas must support the development of the essential skills described in Florida's School-to-Work initiatives. Connections to the community and the work place should be fostered within real life and work-based projects. Awareness, orientation, exploration, preliminary career focus and career specialization may be provided through the following benchmark levels:
Pre-K - 2 - awareness
Grades 3-5 - orientation
Grades 6-8 - exploration
Grades 9-12 - preliminary career focus
Grades 13 + - career specialization
Educators, this document will:
Give examples of performance descriptions of how students might demonstrate acquired skills and knowledge;
Correlate sample performance descriptions to Florida's Goal 3 Standards;
Encourage districts and schools to develop curricula that are guided by locally developed vision;
Provide overviews of models of good teaching, learning and assessment;
Present ideas for developing connections between applied technology and other disciplines; and,
Provide suggestions for the professional development of teachers.