Blog establised in October 2009 by the Tennessee Education Association's Career - Technical Education (CTE) Committee to review and disseminate information on career-technical education policies and practices.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
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The following questions were generated from teachers who are currently full time CTE instructors: 1. Those who hold Occupational Teaching license cannot have any add on endorsements such as Driver's Education. They find it interesting that they tach students a skill and teaching driver's ed is nothing but teaching them a skill. They were told by the state dep[t of ed that they cannot teach this course. Why is this an issue that has not been addressed?
2. The Skills/USA National contest are held in the summer. Every year the contest is scheduled during a week in June. We are asked to participate in thie contest but with no type of stipend for our involvement. This means that we have to ask off or our summer jobs for a week and lose that pay plus that time of our summer vacation. We do not have to go but then that means students who qualified for the right to go, have to rely on another teacher or parent to take them. When this was during a time that Career and tech. (Vocational) teachers were paid for eleven months therefore, this was part of their job. Since we are no longer paid for eleven months, I believe one of two things should occur, one the contest should be required to be held during the school year such as a lot of the other Career and tech clubs are or two the state should you have to pay the teachers and equivalent of one weeks salary to go during the summer. Or the national contest should be dropped.
3. There are some CTE classes that do not need the 20/25 class limit. Ex. Marketing and some FCS classes. When districts are looking to get the most bang for their buck, we may be the first to go.
4. There needs to be a careful look at what the new state standards for elective focus is doing to the CTE classes across the state. I do believe that in the next few years we will see a dramatic drop in our CTE enrollment as students and parents will not want to lock their children into a 3 year CTE program.
The following questions were generated from teachers who are currently full time CTE instructors:
ReplyDelete1. Those who hold Occupational Teaching license cannot have any add on endorsements such as Driver's Education. They find it interesting that they tach students a skill and teaching driver's ed is nothing but teaching them a skill. They were told by the state dep[t of ed that they cannot teach this course. Why is this an issue that has not been addressed?
2. The Skills/USA National contest are held in the summer. Every year the contest is scheduled during a week in June. We are asked to participate in thie contest but with no type of stipend for our involvement. This means that we have to ask off or our summer jobs for a week and lose that pay plus that time of our summer vacation. We do not have to go but then that means students who qualified for the right to go, have to rely on another teacher or parent to take them. When this was during a time that Career and tech. (Vocational) teachers were paid for eleven months therefore, this was part of their job.
Since we are no longer paid for eleven months, I believe one of two things should occur, one the contest should be required to be held during the school year such as a lot of the other Career and tech clubs are or two the state should you have to pay the teachers and equivalent of one weeks salary to go during the summer.
Or the national contest should be dropped.
3. There are some CTE classes that do not need the 20/25 class limit. Ex. Marketing and some FCS classes. When districts are looking to get the most bang for their buck, we may be the first to go.
4. There needs to be a careful look at what the new state standards for elective focus is doing to the CTE classes across the state. I do believe that in the next few years we will see a dramatic drop in our CTE enrollment as students and parents will not want to lock their children into a 3 year CTE program.