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Expectations | Accountability
Full School Year of CTE Introduction Content:
It is a requirement of the CTE Introduction schools to utilize the full school year,
approximately 180 days, to deliver the CTE Introduction content. All schools, regardless
of a trimester or quarter rotation, must utilize the 180 days as follows:
- 19 days of CTE Introduction Career Development activities must be delivered in
a sequential manner over the course of the year-- not all at one time.
- 5 days devoted to the orientation and wrap-up.
- 6 days of work-based learning activities.
- 150 days of Career and Technical Education content
Underrepresented/Integrated Areas:
The new CTE Introduction program places greater emphasis on the "under-represented"
areas of marketing, health science and technology, agriculture, and personal
economics. This new curriculum will expand the number of CTE activities
in the under-represented content areas.
Role of Comprehensive Guidance:
The new CTE Introduction program and the Comprehensive Guidance program have greater
alignment and will complement each other. It is important however, for
administrators and counselors to recognize that the CTE Introduction program is not
the only vehicle to accomplish the guidelines of the Comprehensive Guidance
program. The Comprehensive Guidance program is a total school program,
which should be delivered in all grade levels and in all curriculum areas.
Trimester vs. Quarter Rotation:
The typical rotation model is a rotation among three teachers on a trimester
basis. The CTE Introduction program is to use existing personnel in the schools, typically
the family and consumer science, business, and technology education teachers.
Over the years, some schools developed a fourth rotation, which included
guidance. In the original program only 15 days were allocated to guidance.
This fourth rotation taught the 15 guidance activities, plus 30 additional
days of guidance curriculum that were developed by these schools. Schools
adopted the fourth quarter of guidance in order to ensure that guidance
materials were taught, to schedule more students into the program, and
for ease of grading.
While this additional guidance content may be excellent information for
students, it takes away available days to teach exploration activities
in the CTE content areas. In some instances non-CTE Introduction curriculum activities
have been added to this rotation, such as study skills, character education,
day planners, the Lions Quest program, refusal skills, skills for adolescents,
etc. In order for schools to meet the CTE Introduction Core Curriculum requirements,
it will important for 150 days of CTE curriculum and the 19 career development
activities be taught throughout the year. The fourth guidance component
will transition to teaching more CTE content activities for the majority
of the term. These activities should be ones that are not equipment or
laboratory driven. This transition will take a lot of time and team planning.
The full transition may take some schools a couple of years. The important
thing is that schools start the transition.
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