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The book will be available on Amazon in early 2025.
Becoming a Career and Technical Education Teacher
Meeting the Challenges of the First Few Years
Throughout our careers spanning over three decades, we welcomed thousands of industry professionals into the ranks of CTE teacher. We always tried to be frank with the new teachers, "You know your trade, but teaching it to high school students is an entirely different challenge." We like to think the advice we shared with these new teachers over the years helped ease the burden of being a new teacher and set them on a path to becoming a competent and enthusiastic teacher.
And now you know what compelled us to put pen to paper and share the lessons we learned and we shared with the new CTE teachers we had the pleasure of working with. We want to convey this shared knowledge with every industry professional beginning their journey as a CTE teacher.
We hope you find this book to be helpful as you navigate the challenges of your first few years of teaching in CTE. Think of this book as your beginner’s toolkit to CTE teaching. We’ve tried to include the important tasks and responsibilities you’ll experience in the first few years of your teaching career. We’ve organized the chapters in a sequence to address a CTE teacher’s more immediate needs.
This is book is all about grasping promising ideas, building them into your skill set, and using them effectively day in and day out. We have formatted the concepts and practices in a streamlined manner, making them easy to read, and focusing on the important stuff.
You are bound to make mistakes, and you will undoubtedly learn from those lessons. But they don’t all have to come from personal experience, at least yours. The book has the ‘tips and tricks’ we have learned that will help you avoid making common mistakes.
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Helping New CTE Teachers Be Successful
We all know how tough it is during that first year of teaching in the CTE classroom and laboratory. So many things that must be done, so little knowledge of how to do it, and of course, so little time to do it all. If you share our concern for new CTE teachers and are interested in our efforts to write a book for this audience, let us know by sending us a "Keep Me Informed" about the new book.
If you know a CTE teacher who has been in the classroom for three or fewer years, we would love to know about their experience as a newer CTE teacher. Have them stop by here and complete the survey lined below.Complete the survey, leave basic contact information and we'll send you a free digital copy of theHigh-Quality CTE Curriculum book as an expression of our appreciation.
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