This document provides an overview of the curriculum structure for courses offered through the National Academy Foundation (NAF). It outlines that NAF courses are designed to be completed in one semester, meet for 50 minute class periods, and are accessible to most high school students. Each course is correlated to Common Core standards and includes lessons on related careers and a culminating project. Advisory boards are also involved in course development. Individual lessons within the courses follow a consistent structure, beginning with an engaging activity and including instructional strategies, literacy activities, and assessments.

1. Overview of the NAF AOF Curriculum
Dr. Daniel A. Wallace
Instructional Manager of the Southeast & Central Regions

2. Who is in the room?
Turn to your neighbor and take 2 min. each to:
 Introduce yourself
 Subject area and number of years teaching
 What interests and hobbies outside work
 Find one thing you have in common
 Why are you in this session and what would you like
to takeaway?

3. Driving Question
Course: Business in a Global Economy
“How can we, as corporate strategists, best
develop a plan to enter a new international
market and structure our operations abroad to
effectively compete in the global economy?”

4. Culminating Project
“ How can we, as corporate strategists, best
develop a plan to enter a new international market
and structure our operations abroad to effectively
compete in the global economy?”

5. AOF AOHT AOIT
Principles of Finance Principles of Hospitality & Principles of Information
Courses Offered Tourism Technology**
Applied Finance Customer Service* Computer Networking*
Business Economics Geography for Tourism Computer Systems*
Business in a Global Hospitality Marketing Database Design
Economy
Entrepreneurship Sports, Entertainment, and Digital Video Production
Event Planning
Ethics in Business Sustainable Tourism Graphic Design
Financial Planning Introduction to Programming
Financial Services AOHS Web Design*
Insurance Health Careers Exploration
Managerial Accounting Global Health
Principles of Accounting

6. Structure of a NAF course
 1 semester (75 – 80 class periods)
 Class periods are 50 minutes long
 Designed to be accessible to most students
 Correlated to the Common Core standards
 Includes a lesson on industry-related careers
 Includes a culminating project
 Advisory board is involved in every course

7. Structure of a NAF lesson
 Each lesson includes three main components +
the PowerPoint:
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8. Structure of a NAF Lesson
 Documents are in Word format to be edited as needed
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9. A Look at NAF Lesson Design
Read, Group, Share:
 Which elements of this lesson are familiar to
you?
 What seems new and interesting to you?
 How would you characterize the instructional
arc/flow/sequencing of this lesson?

10. Closer Look at Structure of a NAF lesson
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11. Structure of a NAF lesson
Instructional Strategies
&
Literacy Activities
Taxonomy
SQ3R
Semantic Mapping
Mystery Word

12. Exploring Instructional Practices
Working with a partner, find these practices
in the lesson and complete the Instructional
Practices Graphic Organizer

13. Where are the courses?

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22. Going Paperless

23. NAF Update: Certification and Assessments
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24. Starting Fall Term 2012
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25. Student Certification
Assessment System
• Culminating
Course Project Assessment
Based
Assessments • End of Course
Exam
Culminating • Supervisor
Work Based Assessment of
Learning College and Career
Experience Readiness
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26. Enroll in free professional development
In addition to webinars and regional PDs, you can
increase your skills by taking NAF eCollege online
courses:
 Basics of the NAF Curriculum (short module)
 Teaching the NAF Curriculum (immersion course)

27. arothstein@naf.org