Student Assignments

Below are links to CTE student assignments as well as tips on how to create your own classroom activities to help students become career ready in a global economy. In addition, find tools to help you teach the content from the student modules.

General Assignments

• Conversation Questions are designed to assist educators in continuing to learn about their students. These can be used to spark group or class discussions, as a journal entry, or in casual conversations with students.
• CTE Journey Assignment is meant as a way for educators to understand students’ perspectives and assistance they may need, by learning about their CTE journey.
• Getting to Know Your Students Questionnaire is designed as a survey to give to students at the beginning of a program or semester to learn more about who they are.
• Global Industry Analysis Assignment: Students can explore the global nature of industries or companies using the questions posed in this assignment.
• Sample Projects Organized by UN Sustainable Development Goals can give you ideas of topics and potential projects to embed in your curriculum.

The Center for Global Education at Asia Society has created online modules to support high school and postsecondary CTE students in learning about the skills of global competence. These short, 15–20 minute modules, are self-paced and available through ACTE’s CareerPrepped platform. These assignments serve as classrooms extensions of the materials taught in the modules. Each module has a faculty guide and related assignments. In addition, if you want to teach content from the modules, without having your students watch the modules, we have tools to help!

Module 1: Defining Global Competence

• Extension assignments (for students who have watched the modules):
  • Faculty Guide 
  • Assignment 1: Interview Assignment on Global Competence
  • Assignment 2: Concept Map
  • Assignment 3: Create an Infographic
• Resources for teaching module content (if your students don’t watch the modules):
  • Activity #1: What is Global Competence?
  • Activity #2: Global Competence in Your Career Field
  • Activity #2: Business Speaker Testimonials Handout

Module 2: Global Competence on the Job and in the Community

• Extension assignments (for students who have watched the modules):
  • Faculty Guide 
  • Assignment 1: Create a Public Service Announcement
  • Assignment 2: Issues in Your Community
  • Assignment 3: Meal Kit Delivery Service Sustainability
• Resources for teaching module content (if your students don’t watch the modules):
  • Activity #3: Learning the UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Activity #4: Global Situations
  • Activity #4 Handout: Virtual Field Trip Handout
  • Activity #4 Extension: Around the World in 80 Days Project
  • Activity #5: Robin and the Tilapia
  • Activity #5 Handout: Robin and the Tilapia
  • Activity #5: Robin and the Tilapia Video

Module 3: Preparing for Global in My Career Field

• Extension assignments (for students who have watched the modules):
  • Faculty Guide
  • Assignment 1: One-Pager on Global Skills in Career Fields
  • Assignment 2: Global Career Readiness Self-Assessment
  • Assignment 3: Global Career Readiness Examples
• Resources for teaching module content (if your students don’t watch the modules):
  • Activity #6: Global Skills in Careers
  • Activity #6 Handout: Business Speaker Testimonials for Your Career Pathway
  • Activity #7: Global Career Ready Practices
  • Activity #7: Sophia video animation
  • Activity #8: Exploring the GREAT Tool (Global Readiness Examples and Tools)

Module 4: My Global Competence Plan

• Extension assignments (for students who have watched the modules):
  • Faculty Guide
  • Assignment 1: SMART Goals
  • Assignment 2: Behavioral Interviewing
  • Assignment 3: Developing Your Plan
• Resources for teaching module content (if your students don’t watch the modules):
  • Activity #9: SMART Goals
  • Activity #9: Krish Animation SMART Goals (see Krish’s Goals section here)
  • Activity #9: SMART Goals Handout
  • Activity #10: Industry Analysis
  • Activity #10: Action Planning Handout
  • Activity #11: STAR Interviewing
  • Activity #11: Krish Animation (STAR Interviewing)
  • Activity #11: STAR Interviewing Handout
  • Activity #11: Extension activity sample questions

How does a global assignment fit into my instructional plan? It’s not as difficult as you think—here are tips to help:

• Step 1: Align the global project to CTE standards and career-ready practices.
  • Connect learning scenarios to the established standards and competencies for your specific course.
  • Need help? Look at the crosswalks of global competence to common standards for each of the 16 career pathways.
• Step 2: Design the assignment with student choice.
  • Students are more engaged when they have choice in their learning, whether it be the topic, final product, or who they are working with.
  • Need help? Review the SAGE method of project development.
• Step 3: Adapt and adjust for your situation.
  • You can integrate projects to fit your instructional plan and program.
  • Need ideas? Review global CTE projects and their modifications in this toolkit.

Want to learn how to get started with integrating global content into your CTE program? View A Future-Ready Workforce: Preparing Community College Students for a Global Economy, a series of short 15-minute online professional development modules designed to assist you in internationalizing your curriculum. The modules are available free of charge.

Links to other global projects:

• Global CTE Crosswalks – These crosswalks of CTE standards by cluster area also contain ideas of globally focused projects.
• MBA Research