About this episode

Dr. Sandra Adams discusses the importance of possibility thinking and industry-based literacy in career and technical education.

Our guest for this episode of College & Career Readiness Radio is Dr. Sandra Adams, a nationally recognized CTE leader, author, and advocate for high-quality career and technical education who focuses on expanding opportunity, literacy, and workforce readiness for students. Dr. Adams begins by saying that possibility thinking is about reimagining teaching so students connect with supportive people and build real efficacy through mastery. She says teachers should move away from content delivery and toward helping students partner with resourceful people who expand opportunities. Sandra says work-based learning should be embedded all year and adapted to local needs, not treated as a one-size-fits-all model. She says the client pitch is her favorite example of classroom WBL, because it brings real problems from the community into the classroom. Sandra says feedback from partners should include descriptive and directional feedback, not just correction or evaluation. She says networking is one of the most important skills in the age of acceleration, so students need explicit practice with it. Dr. Adams tells listeners that students should sound like experts by using industry…

People in this episode

Host: T.J. Vari

Guest: Dr. Sandra Adams

Topics covered

• possibility thinking
• career and technical education
• workforce readiness
• literacy
• networking
• work-based learning

Keywords

• possibility thinking
• career education
• literacy
• work-based learning
• networking
• student efficacy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CTE

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