Empower Your Students as a SkillsUSA Advisor

Overview

Taking on the role of an advisor to a SkillsUSA chapter is one of the most intentional steps you can take as part of your professional career. The impact of this decision on your students and their future will be life-changing. You’ll find that many of the roles and responsibilities of serving as an advisor support the work that you are already doing in the classroom. 

As the advisor of your SkillsUSA chapter: 

• You will serve as a guide, facilitator and advisor to students. You will empower your student members to take the lead of their SkillsUSA chapter. 
• You provide intentional instruction about the SkillsUSA Framework and Essential Elements, allowing students to define, develop and demonstrate the skills identified. 
• You connect business and industry to classroom learning, bringing relevancy to technical education and SkillsUSA Framework instruction. 
• You prepare your students to demonstrate their skills through local championships that are assessed by business and industry. 
• You believe that all students have value and purpose and that SkillsUSA offers the ability for students to discover and follow their career passions. 

Professional Member Benefits 

SkillsUSA professional members have access to curated content, tools and resources that are easy to implement in any learning environment. SkillsUSA’s resources and chapter models offer instructors great flexibility on how to integrate learning into the CTE curriculum. 

Becoming a professional member of SkillsUSA is one of the best ways to demonstrate to students the importance of joining a professional organization and the opportunities that membership will provide. 

Exciting news! This September, SkillsUSA is launching a brand-new home for your Professional Member Benefits. We appreciate your patience as we work to bring you and your students an enhanced experience with valuable new resources. You’ll receive details soon on how to access your account and explore everything available to you.

How to Access Professional Membership Benefits

From the dashboard, instructors can easily navigate to access the following resources: 

• Framework Integration Toolkit
• Program of Work Toolkit
• SkillsUSA Championships Technical Standards
• Work-Based Learning Toolkit New
• Professional Development E-Courses
• Xplore! Redesigned Jump Into STEM!
• Middle School Resources:
  • Middle School Momentum New

Framework Integration Toolkit

The Framework Integration Toolkit has everything you need to ensure career readiness for students, including videos, Framework Foundation lesson plans, experiential activities and more! As a professional member benefit, you can access the Framework Integration Toolkit within SkillsUSA Absorb. 

The Framework Integration Toolkit has 15 resources that instructors can use to teach the SkillsUSA Framework skills to chapter members: 

1. SkillsUSA Framework Essential Elements Definitions and Behaviors 
2. Essential Element Assessment
3. SkillsUSA Framework Motion Graphic Video 
4. SkillsUSA Framework Integration Strategies
5. Experiential Activities to Promote the SkillsUSA Framework 
6. SkillsUSA Framework Essential Element Motion Graphic Videos 
7. SkillsUSA Framework Foundations Lesson Plans 
8. Business Partner Outreach and Preparation Guide 
9. SkillsUSA Framework Kahoot 
10. SkillsUSA Framework Bingo 
11. Framework Story Lesson Plan and More Videos 
12. Promoting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion as a SkillsUSA Leader Certification 
13. Building Self-Motivation in Student Leaders
14. SkillsUSA Framework Certification 
15. CTE Knowledge Certification 

Through taking advantage of the Framework Integration Toolkit, student members begin to develop a language to talk about the skills they learn and develop in the classroom, training program and chapter.