CTE Teacher Professional Development

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CTE Teacher Professional Development Effective
Uses of Technology

• Lakshmi Mahadevan, PhD
• Rick L Peterson, PhD, LMFT, CFLE

ACTE Convention December 5, 2008
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Learning Objectives

• Overview of
• The CTSP Center
• Perkins Act
• Online Components
• E-learning System
• Evaluation Data

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Mission

• To provide access to career and technical
  education (CTE) and special education-related
  multimedia information (books, curriculum
  materials, videos, online courses) to teachers,
  parents and education professionals throughout
  Texas and nationally.

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Overview of CTSP Center

• Funded by Texas Education Agency CTE Division
  Perkins Funds
• Check out resources
• post-secondary options for individuals with
  special needs
• legal issues,
• various special needs,
• behavior and classroom management,
• instructional strategies for general and special
  education
• gender equity and non-traditional career choices
• career assessment
• Resources for parents
• Answer questions
• Presentations/workshops
• Interactive website

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Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education
Improvement Act of 2006

• Uses the term career and technical education
  instead of vocational education.
• Maintains the Tech Prep program as a separate
  federal funding within the legislation.
• Maintains State administrative funding at 5
  percent of a states allocation.

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Purpose of Perkins IV

• The purpose of this Act is to develop more fully
  the academic and career and technical skills of
  secondary and postsecondary education students
  who elect to enroll in career and technical
  education programs, by
• Building on the efforts of States to develop
  challenging academic and technical standards and
  to assist students in meeting such standards,
  including preparation for high skill, high wage,
  or high demand occupations in current or emerging
  professions
• Promoting the development of services and
  activities that integrate rigorous and
  challenging academic and career and technical
  instruction, and that link secondary education
  and postsecondary education for participating
  career and technical education students

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Purpose contd

• Increasing State and local flexibility in
  providing services and activities designed to
  develop, implement, and improve career and
  technical education, including tech prep
  education
• Providing technical assistance that
• Promotes leadership, initial preparation, and
  professional development at the State and local
  levels and
• Improves the quality of career and technical
  education teachers, faculty, administrators and
  counselors and

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Purpose contd

• Supporting partnerships among secondary schools,
  postsecondary institutions, baccalaureate degree
  granting institutions, area career and technical
  education schools, local workforce investment
  boards, business and industry, and
  intermediaries.

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Perkins IV - Career and Technical Education-
Definition

• The term career and technical education means
  organized educational activities that
• Offers a sequence of courses which
• Provides individuals with coherent and rigorous
  content aligned with challenging academic
  standards and relevant technical knowledge and
  skills needed to prepare for further education
  and careers in current or emerging professions
• Provides technical skill proficiency, an
  industry-recognized credential, a certificate, or
  an associate degree and
• May include prerequisite courses (other than a
  remedial course) that meets the above
  requirements and

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CTE Definition contd

• Offers a sequence of courses which
• Includes competency-based applied learning that
  contributes to the academic knowledge,
  higher-order reasoning and problem-solving
  skills, work attitudes, general employability
  skills, technical skills, and occupation-specific
  skills, and knowledge of all aspects of an
  industry, including individual entrepreneurship.

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Perkins IVPrograms of Study

• Incorporate and align secondary and postsecondary
  education
• Include academic CTE content in a coordinated,
  non-duplicated progression of courses
• May include the opportunity for secondary
  students to acquire postsecondary credits
• Lead to an industry-recognized credential or
  certificate at the postsecondary level, or an
  associate or baccalaureate degree

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Programs of Study contd

• Identify and address current or emerging
  occupational opportunities
• Build on Tech Prep, career clusters, career
  pathways, career academies
• Locals must offer the required courses of at
  least one Program of Study (and can offer more)

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Special Populations Under Perkins

• individuals with disabilities,
• individuals from economically disadvantaged
  families, including foster children
• individuals preparing for nontraditional training
  and employment
• single parents, including single pregnant women, 
  displaced homemakers and
• individuals with other barriers to educational
  achievement, including individuals who are
  categorized as English Language Learners (ELLs),
  and academically disadvantaged.

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Website Components

• Self-study credit
• Instructional Modules
• Searchable database
• Newsletters
• Webcasts
• Live chat
• FAQs
• Links to external sites
• Resources for Parents

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Website Components Instructional Modules

• Eight instructional modules
• Legal Issues
• Assessment and Evaluation
• Instructional Strategies
• Classroom and Behavior Management
• Accommodations and modifications in CTE classroom
  instruction
• Tools for Career Guidance
• Building Successful Collaborative Partnerships
• CTE Teachers Role in ARD Meetings
• Designed by contracted content specialists
• Accompanying instructional manual, FAQs and
  additional resources (parents included)
• Available online at http//ctsp.tamu.edu
• Participants were current CTE teachers and
  students in CTE Classrooms
• Content is organized by topics 6 to 8 minute
  videos

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Website Components (contd)

• Searchable database 1400 resources keyword
  search (parent resources are designated)
• Newsletters and webcasts designed to deliver
  timely updates on
• Laws/legal issues
• Teaching practices
• Research
• Services available
• Center updates
• Live chat users log on ask questions about
  issues or resources
• Helpful links covers all Perkins issues

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User Statistics 07-08
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E-learning System

• Free certificates downloadable
• Linked to videos
• Interactive and self-paced (place retained)
• Additional web-based readings
• Review Exercises
• Publications
• Activities
• No downloads required
• Text version of videos available for lower
  bandwidth users
• Pre-Post multiple choice tests

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User Statistics 07-08

• 367 enrolled, 202 completed
• Paired samples t-test indicated an average of 30
  knowledge gain

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Evaluation Data

• Satisfaction level 4.12 on a scale of 0 to 5
• Why? Need hours, teaching diverse learners,
  improve teaching strategies, parent of children
  with IEPs, upgrade skills, new teacher
• Best parts? Self-paced, printable handouts/video
  script, videos, interactive exercises,
  explanation of SPED terminology
• Recommended improvements? Fix typos, pre-test was
  confusing, review exercises (java-based), add
  more courses, videos difficult to download,
  reduce acronyms

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Future Direction

• All modules will include
• seamless links to additional topic-related
  resources available for the CTSP library
• activities related to the accompanying FAQs,
• Review exercises technically simple
• updated additional readings, external links and
  publications
• Disability awareness module for agents, CTE
  teachers and parents (includes glossary of
  acronyms)
• Scenarios-based pre/post test
• Opportunities for Community of Practice through
  discussion boards
• 15 hours of CPE Credit

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Advantages

• Timely updates
• Self-paced
• Interactive
• Provides immediate performance feedback
• Inexpensive
• Reaches larger groups
• Helps us increase our educational contacts

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Website and Contact Information

• For more information please go to
• http//ctsp.tamu.edu
• Mailing Address
• Texas Cooperative Extension
• Attn Lakshmi Mahadevan
• TAMU MS 2251
• College Station, TX 77843-2251
• Phone [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• Email lmahadevan_at_ag.tamu.edu