CTE Online Training Information

The mission of CTE Online is to support the strong Career and Technical Education programs throughout California by guiding grades 7-12 secondary CTE practitioners in developing and documenting their day-to-day instruction as well as year-long sequenced courses.

How do we do this? By providing a place for CTE practitioners to collectively develop and share the most effective elements of their program by providing community access to the following tools:

• Professional Curriculum Development Tools
• Professional Alignment and Instructional Strategies Resources
• Standards Databases Cross-References to STAR and CAHSEE
• Online community groups

Schedule your training date now for CTE Online to come provide free, direct support to your leadership team and your staff on the use of these resources.

Click on the Contact page and select Training Request from the drop down menu. Identify the following items in your message:

• Your name, position and contact information
• Your agency, district or ROCP
• Two target dates for training options

We’ll contact you once we receive the above information. Until then, here is additional information on our Orientation and Training program.

What to Expect During Your CTE Online Training

When CTE Online specialists come to work with a CTE staff at a given school, district, or ROCP, they provide the following training sequences free of charge:

Pre-Training Orientation:
This orientation may take place via phone or e-mail in the week or more before a Training. During this conversation, our Specialist will cover what will be expected from you and your staff. We will request a list of participants and their respective CTE course areas so that we may be able to prepare and copy sample course outlines individual user accounts for access during the Training.

Training :
The 2.5 hour training takes place at your site with you and at least 20 participants. It is focused on accessing and modifying developing course outlines to meet individual participant's needs.

The training is split into two parts:

• Assisting participants in developing course outlines by adapting CTE Model course outlines that already exist within the site; and,
• Exploring CTE model lesson plans to identify the components of a strong instructional lesson. (If time allows, staff may then create their own lesson plan to be added to their course and shared through CTE Online.)

Follow up: Your local site leadership teams can verify the full outlines developed by their staff and elect to review and identify exceptional lesson plans submitted by the staff for us to consider for our statewide model collection.