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Professional Development
Adobe Education Exchange
Adobe has created a resource just for teachers. Currently in beta form, Adobe Education Exchange is not only a catalog of teaching and learning resources, but it’s also a collaborative exchange where educators can learn from one another. The web-based community enables collaboration, resource sharing, networking and idea generation using Adobe solutions in and around [...]
Four Useful Professional Development Resources
If you’re dealing with time constraints and a schedule that won’t budge, you certainly don’t have time to spend on professional development activities that don’t add to your knowledge and skills base. Here are several online resources that you can access on your own time frame and use to enhance your skills in four different [...]
Great Online Sources for Professional Development
If you’re a CTE instructor who is looking for good online sources of professional development, look no further. Here are five websites where you can start your search: Association for Career & Technical Education http://www.acteonline.org/ The ACTE offers a range of professional development resources for teachers, including regular online webinars that you can access [...]
Explore More with Project Rome
Project ROME by Adobe was launched to explore the opportunity and usability of creative tools as software-as-a-service. It was a test project that Adobe has since stopped funding and developing, but the commercial version of Project ROME remains free for the public to use online. On the Project ROME site, you’ll find an all-in-one content [...]
Using Social Networking for Professional Development
An increasing number of educators are turning to online social networking tools to connect with other teachers and knowledge sources around the globe.
Four Ways to Use Interactive Whiteboards
Similar to the whiteboard most teachers use in the classroom, an interactive whiteboard connects to a digital projector to display anything on the computer to which it is connected. It enables the user to control computer applications directly from the whiteboard, write notes in digital ink, and save work to share later. Here are four [...]
Collaboration Counts
Online collaboration is a hot topic for today’s CTE teachers, many of whom are finding excellent professional development opportunities right at their fingertips. Thanks to the growing interest in online or “hosted” computing solutions (as opposed to software- and hardware-based options), teachers can get together online to share ideas, classroom techniques, lesson plans and technology [...]
Filling Professional Development Gaps
A 2011 CTE professional development study for the state of Wyoming identified key areas where teachers feel they need more enrichment. The top five responses were: 1) Best Teaching Practices (time/class management, differentiated instruction [for gifted/ELL/special ed], engagement, cooperative learning) 2) Integrating Academic and CTE (career academies, integrating math, reading, & science, interdisciplinary possibilities) 3) [...]
New Online Resource for CTE Teachers
Here’s a new professional development resource that you’ll want to check out: The National Research Center for Career and Technical Education (NRCCTE) recently launched the Idea Center, an online project aimed at gathering successful, effective and innovative CTE classroom practices. “We know that there are great classroom practices out there that are having a positive [...]
Joint Technical Education Districts
Setting Up JTEDs CTE departments and institutions obtain funding from a wide range of sources. And while federal programs like the Perkins grants are a mainstay for such programs, other, lesser-known sources also exist. Consider the JTED, or Joint Technical Education District, approach. These are overlay school districts that only offer CTE programs, and that [...]
