The Resource Center can work with you and your teachers to conduct an onsite professional development workshop that fits your specific needs. Contact us by phone (205-394-9811) or email for more information on the workshops below, or let us customize a workshop for you.
- New Teacher Training
- Creating course syllabus
- Creating course calendar
- Utilizing advisory/craft committee
- Preparing detailed lesson plans
- Evaluating students
- Preparing a Rubric for scoring
- Learning Styles of students
- Teaching Techniques
- Selecting lesson delivery method
- New and innovative ways of teaching
- Project-based teaching
- Contextual teaching
- Collaborative teaching
- Cooperative teaching
- Probable solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Integrating Industry into Career Technical Schools and Shops
- Creating Advisory Committees that function
- Making shops/labs reflect industry
- Allowing industry leaders to be present in classroom/shop
- Implementing Changes Necessary for Today’s Career Technical Education
- Changing teaching techniques
- Allowing students to make decisions
- Involving industry
- Utilizing group techniques
- Integrating project-based teaching
- Integrating technology into curriculum
- What Happened to Our Career Technical Programs?
- Why is finding qualified teachers more difficult?
- New teachers vs. educational and training requirements
- Keeping up to date both technically and professionally
- What to do because funds are lacking
- How to recruit students
- How to retain students
- Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
- Why are programs disappearing?
- Where did professionalism go?
- Why are younger teachers not as professional as older teachers?
- Where is your industry involvement?
- How do you stack up with local industry?
- How do you stack up with local community?
- How do you stack up with local school population?
- Project-Based Teaching
- Value of project-based teaching
- What is true project-based learning?
- Why many teachers do not understand how to utilize it
- Why should I do it?
- When is it used?
- How to implement it
- The Hiring Process
- How to hire career and technical teachers