The Secondary Educator’s Cte Toolkit: Igniting the Spark for Career Readiness in Your Classroom

This book equips secondary Career and Technical Education (CTE) teachers with strategies and information to create rigorous, meaningful, and comprehensive CTE programs, supporting educators in traditional work-based learning programs as well as schools looking to infuse career programming into their curriculum. It is also designed to guide both teachers moving into CTE from other subject areas and industry professionals entering the field from an alternative certification program. Each chapter is infused with a myriad of strategies for teachers to make your classroom ＂career ready,＂ drawing on 21st-century classroom curriculum design. Each topic introduced, from assessment, collaborating with community partners and school stakeholders, work-based experiences, and more, includes an introduction, several instructional suggestions, a ＂teacher spotlight＂ demonstrating the strategies in action, and discussion questions for individual or book study use. Sample lessons, projects, and interviews with experts supplement the chapters. Whether you’re a current CTE teacher or just looking to infuse career-ready material into existing secondary curriculum, this resource can help you create meaningful CTE learning to prepare your students for their world after your classroom.

Samantha Shane is a Career and Technical Education (CTE) teacher in New Jersey, and an ASCD Emerging Leader.