By Mary DeSimone Founder, Mountaintop Education Consulting
In our previous article, we explored how communication expectations in CTE often remain implicit. We examined how language operates across interconnected discourse, sentence, and word levels, and how clarity at each level strengthens student performance.
A recent conversation with an automotive instructor brought this into sharper focus.…
Technical skill alone isn’t enough. This framework helps CTE teachers uncover and teach the word, sentence, and discourse-level language that supports long-term career success.
