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MarkED’s online service includes a wide range of new tools and enrichment materials to make using LAPs even easier, more interesting to students, and more contemporary. AlwaysNEW, in addition to providing a continuing stream of new and updated information and current events, offers instructors many new options: For example, as an alternative to the complete 8-page, 4-color student LAP, the AlwaysNEW service provides a one-page summary (PDF) of the content AND a one-page summary of each objective. As the instructor, for each new LAP you choose how much reading material is appropriate (one page, one page per objective, or the complete 8-page LAP).

Looking for more applications? Check At Work, Contemporary Case Studies, Academic Applications, Computer Applications, and more. Want enrichment? Try the new BeyondUS, Own Your Own, or Here and Now. Trying to integrate chapter activities and curriculum? Look at the 4*DECA pages that address competitive events and chapter activities.

AlwaysNEW includes a different variety of new and expanded options for all new LAPs (and many older LAPs). The range of enrichment and new tools varies by LAP title, including most or all of the elements described below. A single subscription to the AlwaysNEW online subscription includes access to all available LAP modules. Each section (below) is accessible to both students and instructors except as noted:

Possibilities: Career and College
 Tips on how the content of a specific LAP relates to a future career and to college courses. It reinforces the value of the content for a student’s future experiences, including work and continuing education. (View sample.)

Here and Now!
New clips and current events related to the LAP’s content. Designed to help the time-starved instructor stay up-to-date and to provide specific examples of how the instructional material relates to today’s world. (View sample.)

4*DECA
Helps students understand how the curriculum content and DECA are related. Illustrates how the content is relevant to marketing their own chapter and explains how to use the material to prepare for competitive events. (View sample.)

Academic Applications
Worksheets help reinforce appropriate academic skills and demonstrate the relevance of core academics to the content of each LAP. This section makes it easy for instructors to contribute directly to student performance on academic assessments. (View sample.)

Academic Integration (Instructor access only.)
Here’s a tool to help each instructor document his or her role in furthering the academic development of students. Content of each LAP is cross-referenced to the national standards for math, language arts, and social studies, making it easy to prove the contribution career-tech programs make to core academic skills. (View sample.)

Own Your Own
This continuing entrepreneurship project is developed one module at a time throughout the entire program. For each LAP module, students work on a specific application that becomes part of the extended business plan. Whether they aspire to a retail store or to their own law firm, each will leave with a well-documented plan for starting and operating their own business. (View sample.)

Contemporary Case Study (Separate discussion guide for instructor access only)
Intended to help develop higher-order thinking skills, these case problems are developed on current business initiatives and events. Each includes a short description of the situation and a series of questions to guide analysis and discussion. Cases are challenging and require careful thought and problem-solving initiatives. (View sample.)

HOTS (Instructor access only)
This simple tool documents how the various aspects of the LAP contribute to a student’s higher order thinking skills. It’s designed to help an instructor respond to school-wide initiatives and to illustrate how the various activities will contribute to a student’s success on the job and in continuing education. (View sample.)

At Work
Easy to use worksheet encourages students to relate the LAP content to actual business settings. Each is different, but may include specific interview questions, observation guides, or assignments requiring actual on-the-job activities. (View sample.)

BeyondUS
Enrichment content addresses the international scope of business and marketing skills. Helps students understand that we are rapidly moving to a world economy and illustrates the need for business strategy that is sensitive to different values, economic systems, etc. (View sample.)

Technology Applications
Enrichment content addresses the use of technology in business. Helps students understand the importance of understanding and using technology (particularly computer technology). (View sample.)

Computer Applications
Hands-on activities use one or more of the major software applications (word processing, presentation software, spreadsheets, and data base) in relation to the LAP content. Each activity is designed to illustrate the importance of computer skills and to demonstrate the relationship between specific software and the LAP content. (View sample.)

Notes!
Simple note-taking guide for the students who need a little bit of extra help. Use with either the student LAP or with your large-group presentation. Includes key words in sequence with the LAP content and space for students to write in additional information. (Also available as a PDF in the instructor section of AlwaysNEW.) (View sample.)

Resources
Up-to-date references to popular textbooks and other resource material. (View sample.)

Wrap Up
One page summary of the LAP content. Although Wrap Up does not cover all content in the LAP, it provides an excellent review of key points. Use it for review before the exam or print a hard copy for student notebooks. (View sample.)

Quick Quiz (PDF; Instructor access only)
For those times when you don’t want or need the entire post-test, Quick Quiz provides an easy, fast alternative. Each includes 10 selected items from the LAP’s post-test, arranged on a single page. Includes the "Grader" to make scoring very fast and easy. (Does not include descriptive key.) (View sample.)

Key Points (PDF; Instructor access only)
Intended for the experienced instructor who prefers a "walkaround" version of our discussion guide. Includes the major content points and keys for transparencies and Power Point slides to help keep the discussion on target. Does not include minor points or discussion questions.

Handouts (PDF; Instructor access only)
Each includes (abbreviated) summaries of the complete LAP content. Use these handouts as reinforcement of a large group presentation or for student notebooks when complete student LAPs are not available.

• - Narrative, objective A (one page)
• - Narrative, objective B (one page)
• - Narrative, objective C as appropriate (one page)
• - Wrap Up, all objectives (one page) (See description above.)
• - Notes! (two pages)
• - Key Points (one page) (See description above.)
• - Total Recall, all questions (one page) – from student LAP
• - So What? and Make it Pay! (one page) – from student LAP
• - Gray Zone (one page) – from student LAP
• - Quick Quiz (one page) (See description above.)

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