This course was designed for new secondary career and technical education in Florida, but it is also open to any CTE teacher interested in classroom management strategies. Topics include creating a classroom culture, teacher effectiveness, setting high expectations, literacy in the CTE classroom, and more! This course is worth a suggested 60 hours. 

This is a 4-week online training program that will provide participants with an understanding of CTE assessment tools and best practices for measuring student performance. Participants will also learn the relationship between assessment and instruction and how to use assessment to guide in-struction and monitor student progress.

The participant will be able to develop an understanding of how:

• The history of career and technical education legislation impacts the instruction you provide to students.

• The philosophy of career and technical education you have impacts the teaching and learning en-vironment you create for students.

• The principles of career and technical education you establish informs the structure and design of your program.

Getting Your Best Teacher Evaluations is a 4 week, 60 point online course based on the Classroom Teacher Instructional Models and Florida Educator Accomplished Practices (FEAPs). The course includes ideas, tips, and brainstorming for planning and delivering instruction that is more effective; resulting in better student performance and teacher evaluations. We’ve added an Inspiration module to inspire planning for the final project showcase and prepare for teacher observation days. Techniques to increase confidence when facing observations and encourage enthusiastic participation are also shared and discussed. We sprinkle in our favorite techniques and technologies along the way to help teachers get that “wow” from their students and observers. Also included is a section on teaching portfolios with samples and ideas to create and improve their own portfolio.

The participant will be able to develop an understanding of how:

• Special education legislation impacts your role and responsibility as a career and technical edu-cation teacher

• An understanding of disabilities will shape how you structure and design your teaching and learning environment for students

• The universal design for learning will equip you with instructional strategies needed to help your students’ become learners who are purposeful and motivated, resourceful, and knowledgeable, as well as strategic and goal-directed.

The participant will be able to develop an understanding of how:

• Students learn deeply, think critically, and strive for excellence.

• Students work on projects that are meaningful and relevant to their culture, their lives, and their future.

• Students’ work is publicly displayed, discussed, and critiqued.

• Students collaborate with other students in person or online and/or receive guidance from adult mentors and experts.

• Students use a project management process that enables them to proceed effectively from project initiation to completion.

• Students reflect on their work and their learning throughout the project.

The participant will be able to develop an understanding of how to:

• Plan instruction with an instructional learning standards-based approach to designing a perfor-mance scale to set student expectations

• Deliver instruction that aligns instructional engagement strategies, presentation methods, and expression options of learning standardsassess student learning and progression with a learning standards rubric that provides students with qualitative feedback

This course was designed for new secondary career and technical education in Florida, but it is also open to any CTE teacher interested in classroom management strategies. Topics include creating a classroom culture, teacher effectiveness, setting high expectations, literacy in the CTE classroom, and more! This course is worth a suggested 60 hours.