Chapter 1: Understanding Career and Technical Student Organizations
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This chapter spells out the who, what, when, where and why of career-training student organizations. Learn how student organizations serve as integrated instructional tools to augment career-training education programs.
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Chapter 2: Establish a Business and Industry Advisory Committee
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Learn how to form a local business and industry advisory committee to help you train your students to meet industry standards. Includes samples of a news release for a new advisory committee member, meeting agendas, a committee member letter of invitation, meeting minutes and a thank-you note for service.
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Chapter 3: Establish a New SkillsUSA Chapter
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From initial meetings with school administrators to targeting school board members, school counselors, teachers and students, this chapter will help you lay the ground work for establishing a chapter. Live links to SkillsUSA’s Web site provide additional information and free downloads. An interactive chapter calendar will help you map out your SkillsUSA activities for the year.
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Chapter 4: Conduct a Membership Campaign
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Use this chapter to help you determine students’ interests and complete a roster as well as develop a plan to recruit, develop options for dues and strategies for maintaining membership. Includes an interactive member interest survey, Web links to downloads and online registration and a copy of the SkillsUSA pledge.
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Chapter 5: Coordinate Public Relations Activities
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Learn which chapter activities are news, how to establish media contacts, how to tell SkillsUSA’s story, how to organize public relations opportunities including SkillsUSA Week events and much more. Includes Web links to SkillsUSA’s media kit, sample news releases and a SkillsUSA/Career and Technical Education Week sample news release and proclamation.
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Chapter 6: Elect and Train SkillsUSA Leaders and Officers
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From determining which offices your chapter needs to supervising nominations and elections, this is a complete guide to ensuring your chapter has proper leadership. Extensive training information includes how, when and where to hold training, officer duties, team-building exercises, suggested agendas, an interactive officer candidate filing form and printable handouts on everything from tips for meeting people and etiquette to writing and speaking tips.
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Chapter 7: Participate in SkillsUSA Ceremonies
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This chapter provides an overview of the importance of the SkillsUSA Opening and Closing Ceremonies and guidelines for holding an installation ceremony. Use it to explain the parts of the SkillsUSA emblem and to help students understand and appreciate the ceremonies. It provides tips on how to look professional and a printout of the pledge, motto and creed. Note: this chapter is not meant to serve as contest guidelines. Refer to the SkillsUSA Technical Standards for contest rules and regulations.
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Chapter 8: Plan and Conduct SkillsUSA Meetings
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Featuring guidelines on chapter equipment, a room setup diagram and parliamentary procedure tips, Chapter 8 will help your students run effective meetings. Includes printouts of cue sheets for making motions, plus sample meeting agendas.
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Chapter 9: Implement the PDP
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Designed as an overview of SkillsUSA’s award-winning Professional Development Program, this chapter describes the curriculum’s components and explains methods for implementation and instructional strategies. It also provide tips to introduce the program to parents, administrators and employers.
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Chapter 10: Develop a Program of Work and Chapter Calendar
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This chapter outlines the seven major goals of the SkillsUSA Program of Work and covers how SkillsUSA’s Chapter Standards Program fits in. Use Chapter 10 to help you and your students develop the goals and interests of their chapter and develop a chapter calendar. Includes a list of suggested program of work activities, a sample program of work calendar and a sample balanced SkillsUSA program chart.
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Chapter 11: Establish a Budget
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Learn how to plan a budget based on your chapter’s program of work. Chapter 11 will help you review policies regarding fund-raising activities, identify expenditures and sources of income, and monitor treasurer activities. Includes the dos and don’ts of fund-raising activities.
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Chapter 12: Establish Committees
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Help students divide the chapter’s workload with this chapter. It will help them appoint and delegate responsibilities to committees. Sections cover choosing standing committees, operating and monitoring committees, and evaluating committee activities.
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Chapter 13: Conduct a Community Service Project
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Learn how to choose the right project for your chapter and provide leadership and motivation. Includes details for participating in SkillsUSA’s nationally endorsed community service project, Student2Student.
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Chapter 14: Conduct a Fund-Raiser
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From acquiring permission to selecting and promoting the chapter’s project, Chapter 14 will help you identify legal questions, monitor collection of funds, evaluate your chapter’s efforts and celebrate a successful champaign. Includes a list of 50 ways to raise chapter funds and a fund-raising evaluation form.
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Chapter 15: Conduct a Professional Development Activity
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Learn the finer points of selecting an effective professional development activity for your students. Develop a calendar to map out your activities using an interactive form.
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Chapter 16: Conduct a Social Activity
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Identify appropriate social activities that reflect students interests. Includes tips to promote and follow up on social activities as well as checklists.
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Chapter 17: Prepare Members for Competitive Events
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Learn how to encourage participation in competitive activities, prepare students for competition, supervise competitive events, prepare students for varied levels of success and more. Includes an interactive contest application form.
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Chapter 18: Conduct a Local SkillsUSA Championships
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Geared for developing local competitions, this chapter explains how to gain school administration and faculty support, plan events, organize technical committees and judges, develop a budget, gain industry involvement, develop printed materials and more. Includes a suggested time line, sample letters of invitation and thank-you letters, news release samples and an interactive grievance form.
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Chapter 19: Plan Overnight Activities
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This chapter will help you cover the bases when it comes to being responsible for students on overnight activities. It includes samples of letters to parents, an agenda, a code of conduct, a medical liability release form, permission forms and more. It identifies legal responsibilities and provides tips for monitoring students.
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Chapter 20: Plan A Banquet
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Help your students put on a successful banquet with this chapter. It includes how to select a time and place for the banquet, tips for working with committees and a series of interactive committee checklists.
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Chapter 21: Integrate SkillsUSA Activities into the Curriculum
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For the instructor who knows the importance of blending employability skills into everyday classroom life, this chapter provides integration techniques, tips for using SkillsUSA’s Chapter Standards Program, how to work with local industry and more.
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Chapter 22: Evaluate the SkillsUSA Program
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Evaluation of your SkillsUSA program will allow you to decide if your program is meeting your goals. Includes tips to select a method of evaluation, develop evaluation tools and outline changes to be made.
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