Family & Consumer Sciences Reviewer Guide

iCEV’s comprehensive courses feature everything you need to start teaching right away, including media-rich presentations, detailed lesson plans, projects, activities, assessments and more.

But how do you get started with iCEV? How is this curriculum structured, and what Family & Consumer Sciences courses does it offer for Proclamation 2024?

In this guide, you’ll gain an overview of the iCEV curriculum and how to successfully navigate it to complete your Proclamation 2024 review. Along the way, we’ll cover topics like:

What is iCEV?

How is the iCEV Curriculum Structured?

What are the Pedagogical Resources Available within iCEV?

What Courses are Available for Review for Proclamation 2024?

What are Some Best Practices for Utilizing iCEV?

By the end of this guide, you’ll have a better understanding of iCEV so that you can make the most informed decision when choosing the curriculum for your district.

How do I Obtain Login Information for my Review of iCEV?

iCEV is a digital curriculum provider that focuses on creating engaging course materials for use in Career and Technical Education (CTE). iCEV places a particular emphasis on helping educators meet their course standards, prepare their learners for industry certifications, and overall give them everything they need so they can focus on what matters ---

STUDENT SUCCESS!

To this end, iCEV offers educators a comprehensive curriculum solution that they can access on a subscription basis. With the iCEV curriculum, educators can teach courses in some of the most prominent CTE career clusters.

Typically, an iCEV course consists of lesson plans, videos, slide presentations, student handouts, projects, check for understandings, assessments and more. Each course is wellrounded, in-depth, and contains all of the resources necessary to fully educate your learners in a particular content area.

With these lesson materials, iCEV focuses on bringing experts to the classroom to provide insight into practical, real-world concepts and skills. This usually takes the form of demonstration videos, video interviews or career interviews with industry professionals.

The iCEV curriculum library contains thousands of hours of content spread across more than 200 courses.

Now that you have a general understanding of what iCEV is, the next step is to elaborate on the curriculum’s vernacular, to familiarize you with how it functions.

Although the iCEV curriculum is different from a textbook, the two share similar structures and components. Some of the components of the iCEV curriculum---as well as their textbook equivalents---include:

Course Playlists - Textbooks

Lessons - Chapters

Segments - Subchapters

While there are more components to the iCEV curriculum, these three are a good place to start in order for you to gain your bearings when navigating our platform for Proclamation 2024.

Course Playlists

Course Playlists contain all of the lessons for a particular topic, and could be seen as the equivalent of whole textbooks with the depth of content they offer. Each course playlist consists of all the content needed to meet the standards specified in a particular Proclamation 2024 subject area.

Lessons

Lessons are the chapters of an iCEV Course Playlist. Each lesson within iCEV focuses on a set of specified learning objectives, presents information in a video or multimedia format and includes supporting pedagogical materials and resources such as daily lesson plans, assessments, projects, and more.

Segments

Segments are portions of an individual iCEV lesson, similar to a subchapter within a textbook. For instance, a slide presentation-based lesson may include three segments of content in the presentation. Dividing the content into segments allows for learning objectives to be focused upon and tested for on an accompanying Check for Understanding specific to the segment.

Pedagogical Resources

Now that you have a grasp on the structure of the iCEV curricul um, what comes next is to introduce you to the specific pedagogical resources that compose the various lessons, courses, and course playlists within iCEV.

Planning Resources

Planning Resources are documents designed to save you time and ease the planning process when preparing for class. These documents help you structure your class, meet course standards, and spend less time planning and more time engaging with students. These documents include:

Pre-built Lesson Plans are your roadmap to follow when using iCEV lesson materials. These step-by-step documents provide a daily scope and sequence of utilizing the iCEV lesson materials and include classroom management tips such as bell ringers, exit tickets, and considerations for special populations.

TEKS Alignments include a suggested pacing guide as well as show the TEKS which are met by each lesson found in the course playlist. Special Population Strategies Guide can ease the challenge of meeting the needs of every student by equipping you with strategies and tactics to help all students succeed.

In addition to these resources, iCEV has also added Materials Lists to the alignment documents of courses that involve lab work. These Material Lists specify which activities, projects and labs will require additional supplies to function, and what those supplies are.

Multimedia Lesson Types

Every lesson is composed of engaging multimedia designed to remove the physical barriers of the classroom and introduce students to valuable concepts and skills. Multimedia components of an iCEV lesson often include:

Videos bring the real world into your classroom by demonstrating knowledge and skills through industry leader and expert insight.

Slide Presentations present lesson content in easy to understand bullet points to provide your students with the information needed to master introductory to technical concepts.

Hybrid Lessons combine video and slide presentations to provide learners with a more wellrounded experience that balances the real-world expertise of industry leaders with the easy-tograsp concepts in a presentation lecture.

Instructional Materials & Interactive Assignments

Instructional Materials are resources designed to be used during class to introduce and engage students with course content. Interactive Assignments are student-facing resources you use during class to allow students to apply what they’ve learned and be graded on their performance. These instructional resources and assignments include:

Vocabulary Handouts help students identify and define terms essential to the comprehension and understanding of the lesson.

Key Concepts present the main ideas of a lesson in a modified Cornell note taking method to ensure students can identify the main concepts of a lesson, answer the Essential Questions, and have a blueprint for how to take good notes.

Student Handouts are used to support topics covered in the video/slide presentation in more detail to give students a deeper look at what they’ve learned.

Activities encompass a wide variety of short-term assignments, from filling out graphic organizers to full lab experiments. This assignment type offers opportunities for hands-on learning and can often be gamified.

Projects are more long-term, rigorous assignments focused on students applying and utilizing the concepts learned in a lesson to prove understanding.

Career Connections are video interviews with industry professionals designed to provide students with a closer look at the career opportunities related to concepts learned in the lesson.

Each activity and project is accompanied by accommodations, mod ifications, and extensions to help differentiate your instruction. These materials also allow educators to print and have a copy for students who need a printed version for IEP or 504 plans. In addition, there are also Text-to-Speech and Translate features included in the curriculum to help ELL students navigate.

Assessments

Assessments evaluate student comprehension of lesson materials. The different types of assessments on the iCEV platform include:

Checks for Understanding are five-question reviews of the main content presented in a lesson to ensure student comprehension of key points presented in the segment.

You can use the Custom Assessment Generator to create your own exam within the iCEV curriculum. This tool allows you to select lessons you wish to include in an assessment. You can then use the search bar to filter through keywords to create a fully customized assessment for your course.

Final Assessments are cumulative to the lesson and consist of 20 questions. Questions in this assessment type are more rigorous and require students to analyze, apply and synthesize the information presented in a lesson.

What

Family & Consumer Sciences Courses Are Available for Review for Proclamation 2024?

Explore Family & Consumer Sciences with iCEV

Education and Training is one of the most important clusters in Career and Technical Education. After all, when you teach courses in this subject area, you’re really helping to raise and guide the next generation of career educators. Good teachers are needed everywhere, and that’s why iCEV offers comprehensive, in-depth courses to cover this critical subject area. These courses are:

Food Science is an essential subject to learn for those looking to enter the culinary field out of school. After all, it’s only by understanding the nature of food microbiology and deterioration that professionals can ensure they’re providing customers with a safe supply of food. To that end, iCEV offers a comprehensive course called Food Science to help students grow and develop in this subject area.

This course has been recently refreshed to include new videos, slide presentations, activities and more, many of which are focused around food chemistry topics. These updates serve to keep the content relevant, aligned with TEKS, and your learners engaged.

Child Development

About the Course Lessons in This Course

The Child Development course addresses knowledge and skills related to child growth and development from prenatal through school-age children, equipping students with child development skills. Students use these skills to promote the well-being and healthy development of children and investigate careers related to the care and education of children.

Some highlights of this course are the Pregnancy, Baby Basics and Child Development lesson series. The Pregnancy series included animated videos to show fetal development through the three trimesters of pregnancy in addition to an accompanying slide presentation going more in-depth on topics specific to the trimester. The Baby Basics animated video series provides a look at day to day care for newborns and infants. The Child Development series utilizes slide presentations to discuss developmental milestones followed by video interviews to gain perspectives of child development experts.

• Preconception Health & Well-Being

• Pregnancy: First Trimester

• Pregnancy: Second Trimester

• Pregnancy: Third Trimester

• Labor & Delivery Methods

• The New Arrival

• Baby Basics: Feeding

• Baby Basics: Diapering

• Baby Basics: Bathing

• Baby Basics: Clothing

• Baby Basics: Sleeping

• Baby Basics: Playing

• Baby Basics: Traveling

• Child Development: Birth to 12 Months

• Child Development: 13 to 35 Months

• Child Development: Three to Five Years

• Child Development: Six to 11 Years

• Child Development: 12 to 19 Years

• Parenting Basics

• Developing Positive Sibling Relationships

• The Impact of Technology on Child Development

• Healthy Meal Planning for All Ages

• Childhood Health & Wellness

• First Aid Basics & CPR: Children

• Protecting the Development of Children

• Requirements of Child Care Providers

• Employability Skills in Child Development

• Careers in Child Development

Child Development Associate Foundations

About the Course

The Child Development Associate Foundations course addresses the knowledge and skills related to applying Child Development Ass ociate Competency Standards in early childhood environments and understanding how these competencies help young children move with suc cess from one developmental stage to the next.

Designed to help learners directly prepare for the Child Develo pment Associate certification, the Child Development Associate F oundations course comes equipped with a portfolio capstone project to help learners apply their skills, in addition to a guide that teache s them how to properly build a portfolio.

Lessons in This Course

• Professional Standards: Early Childhood Careers

• *Early Learning Observation: Professional Standards

• Learning Environments: Classroom Environments

• *Early Learning Observation: Indoor Classroom Environments

• Learning Environments: Outdoor Play Environments

• Learning Environments: Healthy Practices

• Promoting Physical Development

• *Early Learning Observation: Promoting Physical Development

• Promoting Cognitive Development

• *Early Learning Observation: Promoting Cognitive Development

• Promoting Language & Early Literacy

• *Early Learning Observation: Promoting Language & Early Literacy

• Promoting Creativity

• *Early Learning Observation: Promoting Creativity

• Promoting Social & Emotional Development

• Early Childhood Classroom Management: Planning

• *Early Learning Observation: Planning

• Early Childhood Classroom Management: Behavior & Positive Guidance

• *Early Learning Observation: Behavior & Positive Guidance

• Early Childhood Education: Observation & Assessment

• *Early Learning Observation: Observation & Assessment

• Developing Partnerships with Families

• *Early Learning Observation: Partnerships with Families

• Operating an Early Childhood Program: Effective Professional Qualities

• *Early Learning Observation: Effective Professional Qualities

• Operating an Early Childhood Program: Advocating for Early Childhood Education

• Early Childhood Education

Professional Portfolio Capstone

*This lesson was added to the course after Proclamation 2024 review to enhance student learning and application of concepts included in the course.

Human Growth & Development

About the Course Lessons in This Course

The Human Growth & Development course analyzes human development across the lifespan. Within the course, milestones for physical, emotional, social and cognitive development are identified and methods for optimizing development are explained.

A highlight within the course is the inclusion of specific human developmental theories related to each age range that can be found in the Human Development series. In addition, this course comes equipped with interactive assignments and projects students can engage in to grow their knowledge and skills.

• Employability Skills in Human Growth & Development Careers

• Human Developmental Theories

• Prenatal Care

• Human Development: Fetal

• Human Development: Infant

• Human Development: Toddler

• Human Development: Preschooler

• Human Development: Early to Middle Childhood

• Human Development: Adolescents

• Care & Protection of Children

• Human Development: Early Adulthood

• Human Development: Middle Adulthood

• Human Development: Late Adulthood

• Careers in Human Growth & Development

Instructional Practices

About the Course Lessons in This Course

The Instructional Practices course can prepare students for a career in education. The course will help students gain valuable knowledge over topics like leadership, learning styles and how to create a successful learning environment for others.

Some of the most prominent lessons in this course include the Educator Self-Care lesson, which provides valuable advice for teachers-in-training on how to handle their own stress levels and take care of themselves, mentally and physically. Another is the Learning Styles animated video, which goes over the four different types of learning styles and how you can best accommodate for them in your classroom.

These lessons are accompanied by resources like capstone portfolio projects for learners to demonstrate their knowledge, as well as video interviews with teachers that let your learners gain firsthand insight into the teaching industry.

• Teaching & Training Career Preparation

• Educator Self-Care

• Education & Training Systems

• Creating a Successful Learning Environment

• Learning Styles

• Role of Stakeholders in Education & Training

• Professional & Ethical Conduct in Education & Training

• Developing & Implementing Effective Instruction

• Educational Assessments

• Instructional Technology

• Diversity in the Classroom

• Understanding Special Education

• Field Experience in Education & Training Portfolio Capstone

Principles of Education & Training

About the Course Lessons in This Course

Principles of Education and Training introduces learners to various potential careers in education. During this course, students will study the societal context that influences schools, as well as various educational models. In addition, they will learn the basic responsibilities of a classroom educator.

Some of the most prominent resources in this course include capstone portfolio projects for learners to demonstrate their knowledge, as well as video interviews with teachers that let your learners gain firsthand insight into the teaching industry.

• The Evolution of the Education Industry

• Education & Technology

• Education Theories

• Teaching Practices & Strategies

• Educator Health & Wellness

• Professional Development & Experiences

• Employability Skills in Education

• Careers in Education & Training

• Teaching Career Preparation

• Education Skills & Experience Portfolio Capstone

Food Science

About the Course

In the Food Science course, students conduct laboratory and field investigations, use scientific methods during investigations and make informed decisions using critical thinking and scientific problem-solving. Food Science is the study of the nature of foods, the causes of deterioration, the principles underlying food processing and the improvement of foods for the consuming public.

This fourth-year science course comes equipped with video content and Food Lab Challenges, where learners will complete projects within the kitchen lab in order to gain firsthand knowledge and experience.

Along the way, students will develop a comprehensive body of culinary knowledge, ranging from the basic science of cooking, to food microbiology, to food industry safety practices like HACCP.

In addition to counting as a Family & Consumer Sciences credit, the Food Science course can also be used to count as a general science credit to fulfill student requirements.

Lessons in This Course

• English Applications

• STEM Careers: Food Science

• Professionalism in the Sciences: Food Science

• Science Explained: Food Science

• Impact of Science: Food Science

• Lab Safety Procedures: Food Science

• Tools & Equipment in Food Science

• Experimental Design: Food Science

• Conducting Lab & Field Investigations: Food Science

• Analyzing Data: Food Science

• Communicating Findings in Food Science

• Developing a Model: Food Science

• Scientific Principles: Chemical Properties

• Scientific Principles: Solutions, Emulsions & Colloids

• Scientific Principles: Enzymes

• The Science in Food Preservation

• Food Fermentation

• *Food Lab Challenge: Making Yogurt

• Leavening Process

• *Food Lab Challenge: Steam as a Leavening Agent

• Heat & Food Production

• *Food Lab Challenge: Impact of Heat on Food

• Food Science: Carbohydrates

• *Food Lab Challenge: Caramelization

• Food Science: Fats

• *Food Lab Challenge: Functions of Fat

• Food Science: Proteins

• *Food Lab Challenge: Protein Cooking Comparison

• Food Science: Vitamins & Minerals

• Food Science: Water

• *Food Lab Challenge: Testing Water Hardness

• Food Packaging Options & Guidelines

• Food Additives

• Understanding Dietary Guidelines

• Dietary Modifications

• Food Science: Safety & Sanitation

• *Food Lab Challenge: Testing Cutting Board Cleanliness

• Principles of HACCP: Introduction

• Principles of HACCP: Identifying Hazards in Food Processing

• Principles of HACCP: Conducting a Hazard Analysis

• Principles of HACCP: Identifying Critical Control Points

• Principles of HACCP: Establishing & Monitoring Critical Limits & Taking

Corrective Actions

• Principles of HACCP: Establishing Verification Procedures

• Principles of HACCP: Recordkeeping

• Principles of HACCP: Ground Beef HACCP Plan

• Sustainability & Food Production

*This lesson was added to the course after Proclamation 2024 review to enhance student learning and application of concepts included in the course.

Additional Content

TEKS-Aligned Courses

• Advanced Culinary Arts

• Child Guidance

• Counseling & Mental Health

• Culinary Arts

• Dollars & Sense

• Family & Community Services

• Fashion Design I

• Fashion Design II

• Fashion Marketing

• Hospitality Services

• Hotel Management

• Interior Design I

• Interpersonal Studies

• Introduction to Culinary Arts

• Lifetime Nutrition & Wellness

• Money Matters

• Practicum in Education & Training

• Practicum in Human Services

• Principles of Hospitality & Tourism

• Principles of Human Services

• Professional Communications

• Travel & Tourism Management

Certification Testing Platform

Industry Certifications

Industry certifications hosted on the iCEV testing platform are developed by industry-leading businesses and organizations and are available to everyone.

As a testing platform, iCEV fulfills the following responsibilities:

• Provides secure testing technology for certification exams

• Regulates testing environment

• Works with secondary and post-secondary academic institutions, workforce development associations and the public at-large to offer certification options

• Provides certification verification to employers for potential job applicants

• Offers optional certification exam preparation materials

Certification Testing Platform

Industry Certifications Hosted on iCEV

TEA-APPROVED IBC

TEA-APPROVED IBC

American Meat Science Association

Culinary Meat Selection & Cookery

(IBC Code: 978)

Aligned to the Culinary Arts Programs of Study

American Meat Science Association

Food Safety & Science

(IBC Code: 994)

Aligned to the Culinary Arts Programs of Study

Certification Alignments

Center for Financial Responsibility

Personal Financial Literacy

Express Employment Professionals

Career Preparedness

Southwest Airlines

Professional Communications

iCEV offers preparation content to help prepare individuals for certification exams not hosted on the iCEV testing platform. Content is aligned to industry standards set by the certifying agencies. iCEV offers preparation content for four of the following Family & Consumer Sciences certifications:

• NOCTI Early Childhood Education & Care - Advanced

• NOCTI Early Childhood Education & Care - Basic

• NOCTI Hospitality Management - Lodging

• NOCTI Retail Merchandising

What Are Some Best Practices for Utilizing iCEV?

Now that you have a better understanding of the specific subject material that the iCEV curriculum covers, the next step is to learn how this material might be used to its fullest in various kinds of classroom settings.

How to Get Started with iCEV

Before jumping into the different classroom settings in which iCEV can be used, it’s important to give you an idea of how to ge t started with the curriculum. This includes how to select a course playlist, optimize your settings, and more.

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Setting Up Your “My Courses” Page

Customizing a Course

Visibility Settings

Assessment Settings

Managing Students in Your Roster

How to Export Grades From the iCEV Platform

Connect Your Learning Management System (LMS) with iCEV

How to Use iCEV for In-Person Instruction

How to Use iCEV for Remote Learning

How to Use iCEV for Hybrid Learning

How to Get Started with iCEV

Setting Up Your “My Courses” Page Customizing a Course

The first step to getting started with iCEV is to set up your “M y Courses” page. This page will be the hub where you can access information on each of the courses you’re teaching with iCEV.

Setting up this page successfully will include steps like:

• Adding a new course/certification

• Choosing a course playlist

• Adding course

For a step-by-step guide on how to accomplish these steps, check out iCEV’s Setting Up Your “My Courses” Page »

Teaching is as much an art as a science. Successful educators know that courses are all different. Even two sections of the same course in the same semester may differ based on student needs.

iCEV’s fully customizable courses let you Add/Remove lessons and change the order of lessons to present materials in a way that supports student learning within your unique classroom. With iCEV’s course customization features, you can gain benefits such as:

• Better student comprehension

• Improved learning outcomes

• Improved instructor communication

• Increased course accessibility

For step-by-step instructions on customizing your course, explore iCEV’s Customizing a Course Tutorial »

Visibility Settings Assessment Settings

Changing visibility settings for coursework on the iCEV platform allows you to hide individual assignments, activities, or lessons from your student’s perspective of the platform. Doing this will enable you to better pace students as they work through content to ensure they understand what they are learning before moving on.

Learn how to adjust visibility settings for coursework and materials through iCEV’s Lesson Activity & Visibility Settings Tutorial »

Assessments are an essential part of your course. They allow you to gather valuable information about student learning while checking for understanding and challenging their knowledge and skills. There are many options to customize assessments to fit your instructional goals and students’ unique learning needs.

Within a lesson you can customize assessments by:

• Assigning a deadline

• Changing visibility to students

• Adjusting the number of assessment attempts

Receiving constructive feedback after taking an exam is one of the best ways to improve student performance.

Considering that, iCEV offers various options to provide students with instant assessment feedback. The options you can select to incorporate into your assessment include:

• Show only the score

• Show the score and missed questions

• Show the correct answers to missed questions

To learn how to adjust assessment settings, explore our Show Details Options Tutorial »

Managing Students in Your Roster How to Export Grades From the iCEV Platform

Once you have your course organized and structured, the next priority is adding students to your roster so they can access the interactive materials and resources. In four easy steps, learn how to invite and register students for your course through our Adding Students to a Course Tutorial »

The ability to easily access grades and report on student achievement is paramount as you prepare your students to enter post-secondary education or the workforce after graduating.

Within the iCEV platform, you can view student grades at the course level or lesson level in three easy steps.

After each semester or throughout the year, you may need to remove students from your course roster to open enrollment slots for new or next semester’s students.

Learn how to remove students from your roster by exploring the Roster Management Tutorial »

Learn how to view student grades and generate downloadable reports through the Lesson & Course Grade Reports Tutorial »

Connect Your Learning Management System (LMS) with iCEV

iCEV integrates with Google Classroom, Schoology, Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, and more. As a certified Learning Tools

Interoperability (LTI) product , you can integrate iCEV into any Learning Management System (LMS) that utilizes LTI 1.0, LTI 1.1, or LTI Outcomes Service 1.X.

Learn how to seamlessly integrate iCEV with your preferred LMS through the videos and tutorials below:

Schoology Integration Guide »

Ensuring your LMS is connected properly saves you time, provides easy access to data, and more effectively manages student learning experiences in your classroom. Learn more about iCEV’s LMS integrations and stay up-to-date on the latest iCEV integration features.

Blackboard Integration Guide »

Canvas Integration Guide »

Google Classroom Integration Guide »

Moodle Integration Guide »

Now that you have an understanding of the basics of getting started with iCEV, what comes next is for you to learn how to use iCEV in several classroom settings.

With its well-structured, flexible course materials, it’s easy to engage students in your classroom using the iCEV curriculum. There are a few main strategies to accomplish this.

Using a Flipped Classroom with iCEV

Besides traditional instruction, you can also use iCEV to flip y our classroom. A flipped classroom is one where students are int roduced to learning material prior to coming to class, whether through videos, readings, labs, or other activities.

This frees up class time to be used to deepen understanding through discussions with fellow students or projects and activities facilitated by the instructor.

When it comes to flipping your classroom with iCEV, you may:

• Have students watch an instructional video prior to coming to class. They can complete a digital worksheet alongside the video so you can make sure they have watched and understood the course material.

• In class, you can start a class discussion for students to review the concepts presented in the video.

• Afterward, have students complete the Activity or Project that accompanies the segment specified in the iCEV lesson plan.

• Lastly, get your students to complete that segment’s assessment in class.

Make sure to use the digital lesson plans that correspond to each iCEV lesson. These lesson plans lay out a scope and sequence for each lesson, and can be used to assist in planning for a flipped classroom model.

Using a Blended Classroom with iCEV

Alternatively, you can try using a blended classroom in place o f traditional classroom instruction. “Blended” classrooms incorporate both teacher-led and student-led learning experiences, which take place both online and in classroom settings.

There are many advantages to teaching a blended classroom, including the opportunities it offers for small group instruction, h ow it allows each student to take charge of their own learning experience, and how it lets students move at their own pace and lea rn in the ways that best fit them.

Some of the blended learning classroom models include:

• Station Rotation - where students are split into small groups and complete learning objectives by rotating through different stations around the classroom.

• Individual Rotation - where students rotate through stations around the classroom, but on individual schedules set by the teacher, rather than in small groups. If you design each station to suit a particular kind of learning style, this can be a great way to keep students learning in the ways that suit them best.

• À la Carte - where the instructor develops a list of potential activities or projects students can choose from to complete. Students will then go on to complete their choice of activity within a set time period. This allows for greater student choice in their own education.

You can implement any one of these models by drawing from the many curriculum resources iCEV provides.

For instance, if you wished to try the Individual Rotation model with iCEV, you could have each station in your classroom contain a different iCEV resource. One station could have a video for students to watch, another a teacher-led demonstration, the next a quick activity, and the last a group project for students to work on.

On the other hand, if you want to try the À la Carte model, you could find those lessons within the iCEV curriculum that offer multiple different projects or activities. Simply give your students the choice of which activities they wish to complete in order to test their skills.

Reinforcing Hands-on Learning When Using Digital Curriculum

Whether a curriculum is digital or print, reinforcing the hands-on learning components that make CTE impactful can be challenging.

When students experience online instruction, the best way to keep your students on their educational toes is by incorporating hands-on learning to amplify the learning experience.

Four ideas to reinforce hands-on learning and allow students to apply what they learned include:

1. Have students demonstrate the skill, process, or concept covered in the video or slide presentation component of the lesson.

2. Find field trip opportunities where students are exposed to the concepts learned in class.

3. Games are a great way to make learning fun and interactive. Incorporate games into your lessons to further enhance student understanding of the material.

4. Giving students a choice is a great way to make learning more hands-on. When students have a say in their learning, they’re more likely to be engaged and motivated. To give students a choice, try to create options for each activity or project.

Read the full article to learn how you can create an engaging, impactful learning experience:

4 Tips to Better Engage Students When Using iCEV »

How to Use iCEV for Remote Learning

Remote, or distance learning, is where the student and educator are not physically present in a traditional classroom environme nt. Remote learning can occur synchronously with real-time peer-to-peer interaction and collaboration or asynchronously with selfpaced learning activities that take place independently of the instructor.

When it comes to using iCEV to teach a class remotely, there are a few different methods you can use to make the course proceed as smoothly as possible.

Leverage Your LMS Integration

When implementing iCEV for remote instruction, your Learning Management System (LMS) becomes invaluable as it serves as your students’ digital classroom environment. From your LMS, you can assign coursework, record student grades, create engaging learning experiences, and other features dependent on your chosen LMS.

Learn how to integrate iCEV with your preferred LMS at www.icevonline.com/integrations »

Use Distance Learning Resources

iCEV offers a Distance Learning Guide designed to address the most prominent challenges remote instructors face when implementing iCEV. In this comprehensive guide, you’ll explore solutions for remote learning challenges, including:

• How to check for comprehension

• Best practices for submitting assignments

• Facilitating class discussions

• Conducting group projects

• Providing feedback

After reading this guide, you’ll be equipped with strategies and tactics to ensure your remote course engages students in high-quality learning experiences to prepare them for their futures.

How to Use iCEV for Hybrid Learning

Whether your school regularly implements hybrid learning or changes unexpectedly occur, iCEV allows you to effectively engage students in high-quality learning experiences that equip them with valuable knowledge and skills.

As a digital curriculum solution, iCEV is designed to fit any le arning environment, including hybrid modality. Hybrid, or blend ed learning, combines traditional face-to-face classroom instruction with online learning.

Some of the ways you can use iCEV in a hybrid learning environment include:

• On days when students are remote, you can have them watch instructional videos or go through slide presentations on their own in order for them to learn about new concepts.

• When students are in the classroom, you can have them take part in class discussions or hands-on activities so they can develop their newfound understanding and skills.

Because the iCEV curriculum is completely digital, it has the fl exibility to be used when in-class instruction becomes impossib le due to weather or other emergencies. In cases like these, students can even participate in collaborative activities or projects by scheduling online video calls.

Overall, combining classic teaching techniques like presentations and lectures with engaging educational technology gives students new and exciting ways to learn. On top of that, you’re better able to fit the unique needs of all your students regardless of their learning environment.

iCEV makes hybrid learning easy for both synchronous and asynchronous instruction.

How Do I Obtain Login Information for My Review of iCEV?

By this point, you should have a better grasp on what iCEV is, how it works, and what subject areas it covers for Proclamation 2024. With all of that in mind, the next step is to get the review process started!

Contact iCEV support team to request a curriculum sample for review. You can reach them at 800-922-9965 or by emailing us at customersupport@icevonline.com

For more information on how to reach iCEV for support, check out our Contact Us page.