 | A New Teacher's First Year
A new CTE teacher shares the story of her first year of teaching
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| A Role to Play in School Reform
CTE is playing a role in helping students meet the state standards for achievement in Chesapeake, VA.
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| Amazed and Renewed (All Access)
Professional development is a great way to keep learning and growing, but it can also mean a renewal of energy and enthusiasm for teaching.
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| An Education in Diversity (All Access) 
but they all share the need for an education that will prepare them for the future workplace., The changing face of the American classroom reflects many races and cultures
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| Body Language in the Classroom
Nonverbal communication is a powerful tool, so it is important for teachers and administrators to understand the messages they are sending and receiving.
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| Bright Ideas for Dark Days
With winter on the doorstep, Dauna Easley shares some tips on brightening those dark days.
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| Business Alliances Improve Career Awareness
The Wake County Public School system works with local business leaders from the public and private sectors to give students relevant and realistic career experiences.
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| Businessman's Efforts Help Reinvent Valley Tech
In Upton, Massachusetts, one local businessman helped revive Valley Tech’s manufacturing technologies program.
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| Camels and Camshafts
How the University of Georgia is helping to improve career and technical education in a Persian Gulf neighbor of Iraq, the United Arab Emirates.
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| Career and Technical Education at Tribal Colleges
Native American students are benefiting from career and technical education, but at tribal colleges, there are some unique aspects to the programs.
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| Career and Technical Education is Real. And Real Important.
The fact that school leaders promulgate the myth and tell parents that all students will complete a college education is wrong, and it is a lie.
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| Career and Technical Education: The Building Blocks of Early Childhood Education
Career and technical education is preparing early childhood educators to help get young children off to a good start—both academically and socially.
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| Career and Technical Student Organizations Building Our Future
CTSO students today are preparing to become outstanding citizens of tomorrow.
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| Career Clusters…At Home in State and Schools
Work on development of career clusters continues under the National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium.
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| Centered on Teacher Training
A wide array of services and resources make up the formula for successful teacher training at the University of Massachusetts Boston’s Center for Technical Education.
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| Community Support Gives Rise to New Penta Career Center
An old facility gets a new lease on life thanks to a vision and business and community support.
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| Educational Leadership: Rigor & Relevance
ACTE member John Gaal interviews Willard R. Daggett, president of the International Center for Leadership in Education, on roles and responsibilities in educational leadership.
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| Educators use career "Games" to Teach Lifelong Career Management Skills
Learn why The Real Game Series for career exploration is used across Canada and the U.S. in 25,000 classrooms.
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| Effective School Leadership
School leadership must be strong, effective and sustainable, which means it should be a cooperative effort and not just the job of a single individual.
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| Framework for Learning Design
There are benefits to a good performance-based model.
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| Gateway's Horizon A Center of Excellence
Gateway’s new Horizon Center for Transportation Technology was the product of collaboration with business and industry, community support and a federal grant.
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| Hidden Gems
Many valuable internship and experiential learning programs go undocumented. Here are some excellent examples from Pennsylvania.
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| How to Make Their Dreams Come True (All Access)
Dauna Easley outlines her dream formula to help teachers and their students realize their dreams.
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| Improving reading proficiency through CTE
Reading skills may be improved by incorporating content literacy into the CTE classroom.
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| Is Smaller Better?
Many educators today support the idea that a smaller learning environment is better for students.
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| Is That Clock Broken?
Making the most of an uninspiring professional development activity takes a little effort, but it can be done.
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| Knowing Our Place in the Community
Career and technical education programs often have special connections with the places where they are based.
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| Making the Case for Tech Prep
The evidence is starting to come in, and it makes a strong case for tech prep.
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| Not Just for CTE Teachers
At the Upper Rio Grande College Tech-Prep Youth Consortium, academic teachers are connecting education and careers through professional development.
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| Partnerships Designed to Meet Customer Needs
With community support, a good design team and a goal to improve students’ outcomes, school systems are improving their facilities to meet the demands of the 21st century workplace.
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| Physics in the Real World...Teaching Outside the Textbook
A teacher's perspective on principles of technology
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| Redefining CTE: Seizing a Unique Opportunity to Help the "Neglected Majority" Become World-Class Students, Workers and Citizens
U.S. public education is caught up in a tug of war between the need for globally competitive workers and the demand for higher academic achievement.
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| Sharing the Gift of Learning: How to get Your Students Hooked on Books
Dauna Easley shares some of the ways in which she gets her Teacher Academy students hooked on books.
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| Sharing the Language of Learning
In West Chicago, a clothing class is welcoming newcomers with book bags and help with learning how to use the local library.
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| Standing Still in a Time of Change
Getting career and technical education started on the path toward beneficial changes.
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| Student Career Planning Conferences in Tulsa Middle and High Schools Help Students and Parents
Individualized Career Planning conferences at both the middle and high school levels are a catalyst for students to consider how academic interests and their other special talents can be directed into career choices.
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| Success Strategies for Teachers (And Students Too!)
As part of our back-to-school issue, Dauna Easley, author of Teachers Touch Eternity,
shares some of her classroom tips.
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| Supervising Sparkling Students
By building relationships with the college students she supervises in a cooperative education teaching program, a career and technical educator is learning to see her students' gifts and the gifts they will be able to bring to their own students in the future.
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| Sustaining a School-to-Career Initiative
School-to-career programs offer benefits for the entire community, so community involvement can play an important role in keeping them going.
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| Teacher Portfolios: Displaying the Art of Teaching
A portfolio can showcase a teacher’s experience, accomplishments, style and talent.
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| The CORE Connection
CTE and the academic subjects that make up the core curriculum can work together to improve student learning.
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| The Next Generation of Technicians Prepare for Their Future
The East Valley Institute of Technology’s automotive program works with AYES to prepare highly skilled auto technicians.
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| The Secret of Classroom Management
Two experienced career tech educators share advice on creating a well-managed classroom.
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| Using Contextual Instruction to make Abstract Learning Concrete
The value of contextual instruction has been demonstrated in career and technical education classrooms where it is used.
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| Using Humor in the Classroom
Teachers use many tools in the classroom to ensure their students are learning and remembering what they learn. Humor is sometimes one of those tools.
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| Water, Water, Everywhere yet Do I Dare Drink?
A career academy in Florida presents an example of excellence in interdisciplinary education.
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| Workforce Development in the Classroom
A middle school teacher in South Carolina is incorporating workforce development activities into her classroom curriculum.
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| Working Models: Why Mentoring Programs May be the Key to Teacher Retention
By now, most everyone in education has heard the staggering statistic from the U.S. Department of Education: An estimated two million new teachers will need to be hired over the next 10 years.
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| Working Smarter, Not Harder, Part IV
Tips for teachers. |
