Professional Development Opportunities
NOTE: All Teachers and Directors are welcome to attend any training at any location.
This class will be 4 two-hour sessions held on Zoom. You MUST attend all 4 sessions to complete this class. Your CTE classroom truly is the key to 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 […]
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 […]
Are you prepared to take AEPA Professional Knowledge Assessment for Secondary Education? This course provides an overview of standards and material covered on the exam. Participants will engage in discussion and application activities in regard to student development and learning, assessment, instruction, the learning environment, and the professional environment to prepare for the assessment. NOTE: There […]
What do you guess is the number 1 desirable skill that the Arizona workforce is looking for in a new employee? Communication skills! This 2-day class will teach you strategies to use with your students that integrate reading, writing, and speaking opportunities into your program. Day-one focuses on literacy, and closely examines the Career and […]
Create meaningful work-based learning experiences for your students. This course will provide teachers with a variety of models of work-based learning along with the associated forms, agreements, and guidelines. You will select the model that is most appropriate for your situation and create a plan to implement work-based learning as a part of your premier […]
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 […]
In this course teachers will enhance classroom management skills by developing rules, procedures and routines that are aligned to their content and environment. We will consider the philosophy of “Discipline with Dignity” to ensure that you possess discipline strategies that are highly effective without escalating disruptive student behavior. Participants will evaluate how a course syllabus […]
Introduction to the Philosophy of CTE. The CTE Delivery Model, The Premier JTED Program, Classroom Instruction, Student Engagement, Classroom Management, Procedures, Discipline with Dignity, and Program Management. The Methods of Teaching Career and Technical Education program allows you to enroll and fulfill the following courses: Instructional Best Practices, Classroom Management, and Program Management. Note: This […]
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 […]
This is a one-day workshop, designed for CTSO officer teams and advisors. This workshop covers those skills associated with conducting meetings including parliamentary procedure. Participating teams receive resource materials. Please invite 4-7 officers (ideally the same students that participated in CTSO Officer Training)! Teachers are to attend and fully engage with their teams for the […]
Would you like to improve your classroom delivery? This course will focus on the six basic components of a lesson and how to effectively deliver the lesson. During the class a demonstration lesson will be taught by the participant and observed by a coach. The coach will guide the teacher by debriefing the lesson and […]
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 […]
This interactive workshop is designed to ensure success in the formation and use of industry advisory councils. During this workshop you will learn how to form a committee, how to conduct useful advisory council meetings and how to use advisory council members for continuous program improvement. The course runs 8:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. each […]