Support – Promoting Employability Skills

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DeafTEC – Working Together: Deaf & Hearing People

View The online course "Working Together: Deaf & Hearing People" is designed to help employers and secondary educators develop the sensitivity and skills to communicate effectively with deaf and hard-of-hearing employees. It also can enable deaf and hearing colleagues to work together more productively and assist

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DeafTEC – For Students: STEM career awareness

View Resources for secondary special and career educators to support deaf students' career exploration. Included are job descriptions, requirements, typical duties, skills required, expected average annual income, and job outlook.

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NAPE – Nontraditional Student Success: Perkins Basics and Beyond

View This module will help secondary educators work towards improving their capacity to meet federally-required career-technical education (CTE) program quality indicators, especially regarding increased participation in CTE courses of students who are nontraditional by gender. The module helps secondary educators identify root causes of the underrepresentation

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NAPE – Native American Education: Challenges and Opportunities

View The term culture is often used to explain the many external influences that shape who we are and explain our perspectives in the world. However, teachers seldom have the opportunity to learn about the multiple lenses representing the huge diversity of cultures that exist within

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NAPE – Eliminating Barriers through Culturally Responsive Teaching

View This toolkit is intended to help secondary educators develop mindsets to meet the needs of their students and to implement curriculum that utilizes students’ cultural perspectives and home or community knowledge. In addition, this toolkit asks educators to investigate their own experiences with Culturally Responsive

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NAPE – Inspiring Courage to Excel through Self-Efficacy

View The Inspiring Courage to Excel through Self-Efficacy Toolkit can help secondary educators and counselors learn key tenets of self-efficacy, as well as research-based strategies that can positively affect students' academic achievement, advancement, and resilience.

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NAPE – Ensuring Equity in Project Based Learning

View The Ensuring Equity in Problem-Based Learning Toolkit assists secondary educators in transforming their Problem- or Project-Based Learning (PBL) practices to ensure every student can be successful.

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NAPE – Realizing Potential with Mindset

View This toolkit is designed to assist secondary educators in transforming their practice to foster a growth mindset in themselves and their students. Using a growth-mindset approach in teaching is especially effective in developing equitable learning environments that support every student. This toolkit provides an overview

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Student Ratings of Team Experience (Oakley et al.)

Oakley et al. (2007) lists 7 useful teamwork survey questions.

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Main Elements for Team Training (Pimmel)

Pimmel (2003) lists main elements for team training, including: team roles, team development, members' responsibilities, operating strategies, cooperation codes, and meeting guidelines.