ASK has a number features to enhance the user-friendliness of the encyclopedia. ASK comes in an easy-to-use Portable Document Format (PDF). With live links to SkillsUSA’s many Web resources, links to a series of online e-learning tutorials, teacher-generated tips, interactive forms to facilitate core chapter operations, and sample documents such as press releases, you’ll have what you need to guide your students as they learn to run their SkillsUSA chapter

ASK also features resources related to current SkillsUSA programs and services such as the Chapter Activity Planner, Personal Leadership Inventory and more. Additionally, ASK features a brand new chapter on advocating for SkillsUSA as well as career and technical education.

This newly revised CD-ROM reference guide is packaged in a folder that includes an 18"x24" planning calendar plus the SkillsUSA Chapter Management Basics DVD

Key Benefits of ASK

• Written in a way that is easily accessible to both experts and those without a background in the field of education
  
• Offers up-to-date information about career and technical student organizations and issues affecting how they operate the local chapter
  
• Information is presented in easily “digestible” chunks — we know that time is a scarce resource and you need just the right amount of information, right now
  
• Interactive forms allow you to complete and customize the templates and resources provided to match your students and situation
  
• Ready-to-use resources and templates you can share with your
  students — in many cases you can hand off the material and allow your students take the lead with the chapter
• Easily scan the headings and topics in the resource to find
  exactly what you need quickly

Chapter Titles:

• Understanding Career and Technical Student Organizations
  
• Establish a Business and Industry Advisory Committee
  
• Establish a New SkillsUSA Chapter
  
• Conduct a Membership Campaign
  
• Coordinate Public Relations Activities
  
• Elect and Train SkillsUSA Officers
• Participate in SkillsUSA Ceremonies
  
• Plan and Conduct SkillsUSA Meetings
  
• Implement the PDP
  
• Develop a Program of Work and Chapter Calendar
  
• Establish a Budget
  
• Establish Committees
  
• Conduct a Community Service Project
  
• Conduct a Fundraising Activity
  
• Conduct a Professional Development
  Activity
  
• Conduct a Social Activity
  
• Prepare Members for Competitive Events
  
• Conduct a Local SkillsUSA Championships
  
• Plan Overnight Activities
  
• Plan A Banquet
  
• Integrate SkillsUSA Activities into the
  Curriculum
  
• Advocate for SkillsUSA
  
• Evaluate the SkillsUSA Program

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