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Program Management
2025-03-28 08:00 - 15:30, 2025-06-02 08:00 - 16:00 (America/Phoenix) | Online via Zoom
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Level 4
No prerequisite
This class is designed for advanced CTE teachers
Option B approved course

What constitutes an “approved program?” Come and learn in-depth what is required to ensure that your program is in compliance and eligible to receive Federal, State, and JTED funding.
You will leave with the skills needed to manage the many facets of running a premier CTE program, including purchasing, collection of data, reports, advisory committees, work-based learning, Career and Technical Student Organizations (CTSO), end-of-program assessments, attracting and retaining non-traditional students and more. You will develop an action plan to be successful with ADE Program Monitoring.
Upon successful completion of the course, which includes submission of homework, participants will receive an ADE certificate for 15 professional development clock hours, which equates to one (1) semester hour of coursework.

Advanced Methods of Teaching CTE
2025-04-03 08:00 - 16:00 | START @ West-MEC – Glendale, AZ, 5405 N. 99th Avenue, Glendale, AZ, 85305, United States
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Level 4
Prerequisite: Completion of Instructional Best Practices Day 1 and Day 2
This class is designed for advanced CTE teachers

Please bring a laptop

This course will support teachers’ continuing development as outstanding teachers for CTE programs by examining their personal educational philosophy, instructional design, and methodology. Three major components comprise the course:

Examining Beliefs About Learning – developing your own personal philosophy about learning
Motivating Adolescent Learners – designing a classroom that is especially effective for high school students
Engagement – active participation strategies to use every day in your classroom: instruction models, active participation strategies, and major components that are especially effective with adolescents.

NOTE: Upon successful completion of the course, which includes submission of homework, participants will receive an ADE certificate for 15 professional development clock hours, which equates to one (1) semester hour of coursework.

Classroom Management
2025-04-03 08:00 - 2025-04-04 16:00, 2025-05-08 08:00 - 2025-05-09 16:00, 2025-06-04 08:00 - 2025-06-05 16:00 | Pima JTED @ Master Pieces, 2855 W. Master Pieces Dr., Tucson, AZ, 85741, United States
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Level 1
No prerequisite
This class is designed for all CTE teachers.

In this course, teachers will enhance classroom management skills by developing procedures and routines that are perfect for their situation. We will take a deep look at the philosophy of “Discipline with Dignity” and develop classroom rules and consequences.
Participants will be empowered to create an atmosphere that is conducive to learning and high expectations. All of this is based on the belief that excellent classroom management is built on the foundation of well-planned, relevant, and engaging lessons.
Upon successful completion of the course, which includes the submission of homework, participants will receive an ADE certificate for 15 professional development clock hour, which equates to one (1) semester hour of coursework.

Rubrics To Increase Student Success
2025-04-07 08:00 - 16:00 | Online via Zoom
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Level 3
No prerequisite
This class is designed for all CTE teachers
Option B approved course

CTE courses are driven by student-created projects. Rubrics are an evaluation tool that can increase the quality of those student projects while simultaneously giving the teacher a quicker, fairer way to assess their quality. Come to this workshop with one or two student projects that you would like to assess more easily, and you will leave with an excellent rubric that you personalized for your classroom and the confidence and skills to create additional rubrics for the other student projects in your curriculum.
Upon successful completion of the course, which includes submission of homework, participants will receive an ADE certificate for 15 professional development clock hours, which equates to one (1) semester hour of coursework.

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Technical Reading & Performance Literacy Day 1
2025-04-08 08:00 - 16:00 | JTED @ Master Pieces, 2855 W Master Pieces Drive, Building 1/PD Classroom, Tucson, AZ, 85741, United States
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Level 1
No prerequisite
This class is designed for all CTE teachers.

This course consists of TWO 8-hour classes. You must attend BOTH classes to receive credit.
Your CTE classroom truly is the key to the meaningful application of the current career and college readiness standards. This course will give you specific examples where Arizona’s Common Core standards for Technical Literacy already exist in your CTE program, it will provide opportunities for you to incorporate additional standards into your lessons, AND it will give you strategies to take back to your classroom to increase your student’s ability to read difficult technical information more effectively.
Performance Literacy is the partner class for Technical Reading. This second course allows teachers to gain a deeper understanding of writing and speaking standards, identify how they currently use them in their programs, and determine specific steps they can take to increase their use of these standards as well as their students’ success with them.
The technical literacy standards are skill-driven and a perfect fit for our CTE programs’ focus on career AND college readiness as our students complete their programs.
Come find out why CTE really is a powerful driver for creating literate employees for our 21st-century workforce!
There is no homework for this class. Upon successful completion of Technical Reading and

Foundations of Classroom Management
2025-04-08 08:00 - 16:00 | START @ West-MEC – Glendale, AZ, 5405 N. 99th Avenue, Glendale, AZ, 85305, United States
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Level 1
No prerequisite
This class is designed for all CTE teachers.

This foundational course is designed to equip emerging educators with the essential knowledge and skills necessary to develop a positive learning environment. Participants will explore various aspects of the education profession, including terminology, characteristics of professional conduct, and classroom management strategies. Through a detailed examination, participants will develop clear and enforceable rules that promote respect, responsibility, and safety. Participants will examine the role of consequences in shaping student behavior and promoting accountability while creating and implementing consistent procedures to streamline classroom activities and maximize instructional time. By the course’s conclusion, educators will emerge equipped with practical tools and insights to navigate the complexities of classroom management with confidence and professionalism.
Upon successful completion of the course, which includes the submission of homework, participants will receive an ADE certificate for 15 professional development clock hour, which equates to one (1) semester hour of coursework.

Instructional Best Practices
2025-04-10 08:00 - 2025-04-11 15:30, 2025-05-28 08:00 - 2025-05-29 15:30 | Pima JTED @ Master Pieces, 2855 W. Master Pieces Dr., Tucson, AZ, 85741, United States
Event Details:

Level 1
No prerequisite
This class is designed for all CTE teachers.

This course consists of TWO 8-hour classes. You must attend BOTH classes to receive credit.
This course is an introduction to the design and use of CTE curriculum. In this highly engaging course, teachers will focus on the design and delivery of relevant and engaging lessons. Special emphasis is placed on active participation strategies, a strong introduction to each lesson, clear and appropriate objective(s), a variety of ways to meet the objective(s), and closure to assess learning. These strategies will be woven across the entire workshop.
All participants whose districts are members of the AZ CTE Curriculum Consortium and who complete both days of this workshop will receive password-protected access to the Curriculum Connection with its 3500+ bank of outstanding lesson plans for more than 20 CTE programs written by Arizona CTE teachers.
This course is excellent for every teacher. Ace your next evaluation!
There is no homework for this class. Upon successful completion of BOTH Instructional Best Practices classes, participants will receive an ADE certificate for 15 professional development clock hours, which equates to one (1) semester hour of coursework.

Empowering Students Through Professional Skills
2025-04-11 08:00 - 16:00 | START @ West-MEC – Glendale, AZ, 5405 N. 99th Avenue, Glendale, AZ, 85305, United States
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Level 3
No prerequisite
This class is designed for all CTE teachers
Please bring your Scope & Sequence
Option B approved course

This course will explore the nine Professional Skills identified by the Arizona Department of Education in collaboration with industry. Participants will identify them, use created rubrics to assess their use, explore strategies to embed them across their curriculum, and methods to evaluate students.
Upon successful completion of the course, which includes submission of homework, participants will receive an ADE certificate for 15 professional development clock hours, which equates to one (1) semester hour of coursework.

Technical Reading & Performance Literacy Day 2
2025-04-15 08:00 - 16:00 | JTED @ Master Pieces, 2855 W Master Pieces Drive, Building 1/PD Classroom, Tucson, AZ, 85741, United States

Formative Assessments For CTE Programs
2025-04-16 08:00 - 16:00 | START @ West-MEC – Glendale, AZ, 5405 N. 99th Avenue, Glendale, AZ, 85305, United States
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Level 4
No prerequisite
This class is designed for advanced CTE teachers
Option B approved course

This highly engaging course will provide you with an opportunity to evaluate the purpose of formative assessments. Topics include the role and types of assessments, the process to develop an objective assessment, as well as criteria for crafting quality multiple-choice items. You will learn the skills needed to create objective assessment items using a process that mirrors the development of items for the Arizona CTE Technical Skill Assessments. You will develop an understanding of how to assess student skills in relation to standards and Bloom’s Taxonomy levels that require the application of concepts and critical thinking. In addition to learning about assessment development, you will create formative assessment items for use with students in your CTE program and others in the CTE community.
You will be empowered to implement concepts immediately in your classroom.
Upon successful completion of the course, which includes submission of homework, participants will receive an ADE certificate for 15 professional development clock hours, which equates to one (1) semester hour of coursework.

Program Management
2025-04-17 08:00 - 16:00 | JTED @ Master Pieces, 2855 W Master Pieces Drive, Building 1/PD Classroom, Tucson, AZ, 85741, United States

Effective Demonstrations
2025-04-26 08:00 - 17:00 | JTED @ Master Pieces, 2855 W Master Pieces Drive, Building 1/PD Classroom, Tucson, AZ, 85741, United States
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Level 2
No prerequisite
This class is designed for all CTE teachers
Option B approved course

Whether in a welding lab or a bioscience lab, effective demonstrations are crucial. If done correctly, every student can successfully perform the new skill with little or no frustration, without wasted materials, and attain proficiency in a way that will ensure the whole class progresses at an appropriate pace. This is a real career extender! When you are successful in the lab, and the students are successful in the lab, teaching can be very rewarding. An added bonus is that students complete the new skill in a safe environment. Come and learn this four-part demonstration method.
Upon successful completion of the course, which includes submission of homework, participants will receive an ADE certificate for 15 professional development clock hours, which equates to one (1) semester hour of coursework.

CTSO New Advisor Training
2025-05-01 08:00 - 15:30 | Pima JTED @ Master Pieces, 2855 W. Master Pieces Dr., Tucson, AZ, 85741, United States
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*Pima JTED is excited to host CTSO New Advisor Training, facilitated by CTSO State Director Julie Ellis. Please register for this class using this link.
Career and Technical Student Organizations (CTSO) will take your CTE Program to the next level. Teachers who have strong student organizations love the benefits of having students involved in them. Students become leaders, take ownership of their CTE Program, increase their technical knowledge and skill through completion, and make friends.
Skills USA, Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA), Future Farmers of America (FFA), Health Occupation Students Association (HOSA), Distribute Education Club of America (DECA), Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) and Educators Rising are the seven approved CTSO’s in Arizona.
Come and learn about the CTSO that YOU will be advising! This is a very practical, hands-on course that provides the information, guidance, and time you need to start a chapter and meet the requirements for having a chapter. Come ready to work! By the end of the course, you will breathe a big sigh of relief as you will feel empowered to get your chapter up and running.
Upon successful completion of the course, which includes submission of homework, participants will receive an ADE certificate for 15 professional development clock hours, which equates to one (1) semester hour of coursework.

Empowering Students Through Professional Skills
2025-05-03 08:00 - 16:00 | Online via Zoom
Event Details:

Level 3
No prerequisite
This class is designed for all CTE teachers
Please bring your Scope & Sequence
Option B approved course

This course will explore the nine Professional Skills identified by the Arizona Department of Education in collaboration with industry. Participants will identify them, use created rubrics to assess their use, explore strategies to embed them across their curriculum, and methods to evaluate students.
Upon successful completion of the course, which includes submission of homework, participants will receive an ADE certificate for 15 professional development clock hours, which equates to one (1) semester hour of coursework.

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CTE Essentials
2025-05-06 08:00 - 16:00, 2025-06-09 08:00 - 16:00 | JTED @ Master Pieces, 2855 W Master Pieces Drive, Building 1/PD Classroom, Tucson, AZ, 85741, United States
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Level 1
No prerequisite
This class is designed for all CTE employees
Option B approved course

The CTE Delivery Model is THE premier educational system for all students.
CTE Essentials will give you an overview of each of the four components of this outstanding model and allow you time to process how you can incorporate each element into all of your instructional units as you plan your program’s calendar. It will also provide some insight into the many roles a CTE teacher plays in the course of any school day, where to find support to meet those expectations, and how to transition between each of them. CTE Essentials is truly a must-have course for the teacher who is looking to build a strong program for students.
Upon successful completion of the course, which includes submission of homework, participants will receive an ADE certificate for 15 professional development clock hours, which equates to one (1) semester hour of coursework.

Serving Exceptional Students In CTE
2025-05-27 08:00 - 15:30 | JTED @ Master Pieces, 2855 W Master Pieces Drive, Building 1/PD Classroom, Tucson, AZ, 85741, United States
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Level 3
No prerequisite
This class is designed for all CTE educators.

This course is designed to provide CTE educators and other interested parties with a broad understanding of special education. During the course of this interactive class, we will cover a range of topics, including special education law, modifications, accommodations, interventions, supports, the special education process, the Response to Intervention process, and more.
Our goal is to provide you with the tools you need to serve exceptional students enrolled in CTE courses more effectively.
Upon successful completion of the course, which includes submission of homework, participants will receive an ADE certificate for 15 professional development clock hours, which equates to one (1) semester hour of coursework.

Instructional Best Practices Day 1
2025-05-27 08:00 - 16:00 | START @ West-MEC – Glendale, AZ, 5405 N. 99th Avenue, Glendale, AZ, 85305, United States

Effective Demonstrations
2025-05-27 08:00 - 16:00 | START @ West-MEC – Glendale, AZ, 5405 N. 99th Avenue, Glendale, AZ, 85305, United States

Scope and Sequence
2025-05-28 - 2025-05-29 | JTED @ Master Pieces, 2855 W Master Pieces Drive, Building 1/PD Classroom, Tucson, AZ, 85741, United States
Scope and Sequence
Course Description:
This class will allow you to prioritize and organize your program’s curriculum for the school year. This is a two-day class.
This class will give you an opportunity to look at the big picture of your program and design it in a way that makes sense. During this class, you will look at all the standards required to prepare your students to enter the field and begin by deciding the order you will teach each unit of instruction. You will also wrestle with the depth and breadth of instruction for each standard you’ve been tasked with teaching. The final product? A scope and sequence that is custom made by you for you.
Upon successful completion of the course participants will receive an ADE certificate for 15 professional development clock hours which equates to one (1) semester hour of coursework.

Instructional Best Practices Day 2
2025-05-29 08:00 - 16:00 | START @ West-MEC – Glendale, AZ, 5405 N. 99th Avenue, Glendale, AZ, 85305, United States

Grading and Assessment
2025-05-29 08:00 - 16:00 | START @ West-MEC – Glendale, AZ, 5405 N. 99th Avenue, Glendale, AZ, 85305, United States
Event Details:

Level 2
No prerequisite
This class is designed for all CTE teachers
Option B approved course

Assessing and grading are two different actions. Learn a variety of formative and summative assessment techniques. A major focus is how to assess student work using rubrics. This class will help you create a clear grading policy and develop a variety of ways to assess student learning.
How should students in CTE be assessed? How do we set up a fair grading system for both teachers and students? Learn about the wide variety of options that address both of these issues to help you develop both your own philosophy for grading as well as effective strategies for multiple ways to assess student learning and progress. You will also leave with a greater understanding of how to align testing and evaluation to your course outcomes and grading policies that will increase effective feedback for students.
Upon successful completion of the course, which includes submission of homework, participants will receive an ADE certificate for 15 professional development clock hours, which equates to one (1) semester hour of coursework.

School-Based Enterprise
2025-05-30 08:00 - 15:30 | Online/virtual instruction
This course is designed to help participants successfully develop and manage a school-based enterprise. Participants will analyze the key components of school-based enterprises and differentiate such from other forms of work-based learning. Participants will also identify the key elements necessary for planning and implementing a school-based enterprise. Finally, participants will develop a business plan for their proposed enterprise.
This Premier Series Course is only available to CURRENT High School Career and Technical teachers.
ADE Credit Available: Yes – 1 Semester Hour (SH) Credit, Satisfies Professional Knowledge (PK) deficiencies
Course Length: 1 day + homework
Date: May 30, 2025
Time: 8:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Location: Zoom
Link: https://infohub.pimajted.org/events/407
If you do not have a Pima JTED account, please contact Mary Andrade at mandrade@pimajted.org or (520) 256-4169.

PK Test Prep
2025-06-02 16:00 - 23:00 | Online/virtual instruction
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Level 2 CTE Class
No prerequisite
This class is designed for all CTE teachers who must take the Assessment of Professional Knowledge Test
Session Dates: June 2 – July 14, 2025

This asynchronous online class allows you to learn at your own pace. You can access lectures, readings, and other learning materials to complete assignments and other activities at any time during the six-week period. A significant benefit to asynchronous classes is, of course, the flexibility.
This course provides an overview of standards and material covered on the NES (formerly AEPA) Professional Knowledge Assessment (Secondary). Participants will engage in discussion and application activities regarding student development and learning, assessment, instruction, the learning environment, and the professional environment.
Participants are required to attend a Zoom Kick-Off Meeting on Monday, June 2, from 4-5 pm. Participants must complete one section per week. The class will close on July 14 at midnight.
Upon successful completion of the course, which includes submission of homework, participants will receive an ADE certificate for 15 professional development clock hours, which equates to one (1) semester hour of coursework.

Grading and Assessment
2025-06-06 08:00 - 16:00 | Online via Zoom
Event Details:

Level 2
No prerequisite
This class is designed for all CTE teachers
NOT an Option B approved course

Assessing and grading are two different actions. Learn a variety of formative and summative assessment techniques. A major focus is how to assess student work using rubrics. This class will help you create a clear grading policy and develop a variety of ways to assess student learning.
How should students in CTE be assessed? How do we set up a fair grading system for both teachers and students? Learn about the wide variety of options that address both of these issues to help you develop both your own philosophy for grading as well as effective strategies for multiple ways to assess student learning and progress. You will also leave with a greater understanding of how to align testing and evaluation to your course outcomes and grading policies that will increase effective feedback for students.
Upon successful completion of the course, which includes submission of homework, participants will receive an ADE certificate for 15 professional development clock hours, which equates to one (1) semester hour of coursework.

Laboratory Safety and Management
2025-06-10 08:00 - 15:30 | Online via Zoom
Event Details:

Level 1
No prerequisite
This class is designed for all CTE teachers
Option B approved course

Are you ready for students in the lab? This workshop is designed to help participants develop a laboratory improvement plan, including management, clean-up procedures, safety procedures, and meeting monitoring agency mandates. Join us as we identify a variety of practical steps you can take to ensure that your students are safe in the laboratory and that you are protected. Participants will have the opportunity to evaluate their CTE labs and develop a management system for their CTE labs. You will also be treated to a variety of techniques to enable you to manage your lab effectively and efficiently. Additionally, you will gain new skills needed to utilize a proven methodology of teaching in the lab or shop.
Upon successful completion of the course, which includes submission of homework, participants will receive an ADE certificate for 15 professional development clock hours, which equates to one (1) semester hour of coursework.
