As the back-to-school season gets underway, one challenge that many parents and educators face each school year is keeping students of all kinds engaged in classroom learning.
One pathway to student engagement at the high school level is career technical education (CTE). It’s what many people still think of as “vo-tech” or vocational-technical education. Today, CTE offers a whole world of opportunity, combining the ever-changing demands of today’s top industries with the knowledge gained from classroom and on-the-ground training.
Tara Troester, a CTE content lead in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, works with both teachers and industries to create the substance of career tech programs in her area.
The most popular classes in her local program are health care-related, followed by electrical training classes, Troester said.
CTE looks at “what the high-demand jobs are” then helps students “develop those skills,” she said. They learn “to navigate and advocate for themselves while becoming critical thinkers and problem solvers.”
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