Professional Development Opportunities

NOTE: All Teachers and Directors are welcome to attend any training at any location.

Work-Based Learning

Online via Zoom

This class will be 4 two-hour sessions held on Zoom.  You must attend all 4 sessions to complete this class. We will mail you a packet of participation materials. This course satisfies the ADE requirement for the Cooperative Education Endorsement. Create meaningful work-based learning experiences for your students.  This course will provide teachers with a variety of […]

CTE Essentials

Online via Zoom

The CTE Delivery Model is THE premier educational system for all students. CTE Essentials will give you an overview of each of the four components of this outstanding model, and allow you time to process how you can incorporate each element into all of your instructional units as you plan your program’s calendar.  It will […]

Instructional Best Practices Day 2

Online via Zoom

This class will be 4 two-hour sessions held on Zoom.  You MUST attend all 4 sessions to earn credit for this class. This course is an introduction to the design and use of CTE curriculum.  In this highly engaging course teachers will focus on the design and delivery of relevant and engaging lessons. Special emphasis is […]

Technical Reading & Performance Literacy

Online via Zoom

What do you guess is the number 1 desirable skill that the Arizona workforce is looking for in a new employee? Communication skills! This 2-day class will teach you strategies to use with your students that integrate reading, writing, and speaking opportunities into your program. Day one focuses on literacy, and closely examines the Career […]

Grading and Assessment

Online via Zoom

How should students in CTE be assessed? How do we set up a fair grading system for both teachers and students?  This course is designed to look at the wide variety of options that address both of these questions so that you can establish your own philosophy for grading, and identify fair and appropriate methods […]

Classroom Management

Online via Zoom

This class will be 4 two-hour sessions held on Zoom.  You must attend all 4 sessions to complete this class. In this course, teachers will enhance classroom management skills by developing rules, procedures, and routines that are aligned to their content and environment. We will consider the philosophy of “Discipline with Dignity” to ensure that you possess […]

Technical Reading & Performance Literacy

Poston Butte HS 32375 N Gantzel Rd., San Tan, AZ

Assessing and grading are two different actions. Learn a variety of formative and summative assessment techniques. A major focus is how to assess student work using rubrics. This class will help you create a clear grading policy and develop a variety of ways to assess student learning. How should students in CTE be assessed? How […]

Classroom Management

Online via Zoom

In this course, teachers will enhance classroom management skills by developing rules, procedures and routines that are aligned to their content and environment. We will consider the philosophy of “Discipline with Dignity” to ensure that you possess discipline strategies that are highly effective without escalating disruptive student behavior. Participants will evaluate how a course syllabus […]

Using Rubrics to Increase Student Success

Online via Zoom

CTE courses are performance-based.  When teachers let students know exactly how their work will be evaluated, the students’ level of performance always improves. Come and participate in a hands-on activity that uses a rubric, determine where the rubric made a positive difference in your performance, and then design a rubric for one of your own […]

Classroom Management

Joseph City, AZ Rm 3 Rm 3, Joseph City, AZ, United States

In this course, teachers will enhance classroom management skills by developing rules, procedures and routines that are aligned to their content and environment. We will consider the philosophy of “Discipline with Dignity” to ensure that you possess discipline strategies that are highly effective without escalating disruptive student behavior. Participants will evaluate how a course syllabus […]

Performance Literacy

Online via Zoom

Performance Literacy is the partner class for Technical Reading.  This second course allows teachers to gain a deeper understanding of writing and speaking standards, identify how they currently use them in their programs, and determine specific steps they can take to increase their use of these standards as well as their students’ success with them. […]