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Fellow Educators:  

The Idaho Professional-Technical Education Lesson Plan Library is designed to help you take full advantage of your professional-technical curriculum to reinforce and enhance academic skill development. This repository houses both integration strategies and lesson plans. Integration strategies are specific methods for emphasizing and integrating the academic subject areas of reading, writing, and mathematics in professional technical courses. Lesson plans are guides for teaching modules featuring one or more academic subject areas. Many of these integration strategies and lesson plans were designed by teachers enrolled in the professional development course: Improving Academic Achievement through Professional Technical Education.

The Idaho State Division of Professional-Technical Education invites you to use these integration strategies and lesson plans as a way to integrate academic content into your curricula. Each integration strategy and lesson plan includes ways to reinforce the academic content standards required in Idaho . You will be able to help your students make the connections between theory and application.  

These integration strategies and lesson plans will demonstrate how technology can be a problem solving tool that applies to academic as well as career success. The integration strategies and lesson plans in this library will help teachers understand how the principles of math, reading and writing can be used to strengthen the professional-technical coursework. They also demonstrate how teachers can work together to help all students succeed.  

High school completion, preparation for postsecondary education, and transition to the workplace are significantly affected by professional-technical participation. All teachers are responsible for student success. For many students, professional-technical teachers play the key role in that success. It is our intent that these integration strategies and lesson plans will be valuable tools to help you improve both the academic and technical content of your curricula.

Thank you for your efforts to create a world-class learning environment for our students.

Sincerely,  

Mike Rush, Administrator
Idaho Division of Professional-Technical Education