CTE Literacy Works!

CTE Literacy Works! provides the combination of support that will help you reach your goal of improving student reading, writing, and achievement:

• Professional Development for CTE Instructors
• Professional Development for CTE Directors/School Leaders
• Analysis of CTE State and National Certification Tests to improve instruction
• Analysis and dissemination of Center-wide Promising Practices

Benefits of CTE LITERACY WORKS!

CTE students will:

• Realize that literacy skills are learnable, necessary, and add value to learning in the CTE classroom and shop/lab
• Improve comprehension and retention of technical information, vocabulary, and concepts
• Increase confidence and enthusiasm to think, learn, create and problem solve in preparation for 21st century workplaces

CTE instructors will:

• Learn how to actively support students' literacy development within the context of their CTE program
• Develop confidence and competence to teach students specific strategies that facilitate text comprehension, critical thinking, and content learning
• Learn how to embed 21st century workplace skills within classroom and shop learning

CTE leaders will:

• Strengthen capacity to lead a literacy improvement focus in CTE schools and programs
• Develop structures to support and align literacy integration across program areas
• Learn methods for monitoring literacy progress and sharing promising practices

Professional Development for CTE Instructors

• Proven "how-to" reading, writing, and vocabulary strategies to improve students' technical reading comprehension and content learning
• Explicit critical and innovative thinking skills instruction
• CTE-specific literacy lesson plan examples and samples of student work
• Engaging, authentic approaches to stimulate student interest in literacy-based tasks

Professional Development for CTE Directors/School Leaders

• Analysis of CTE program area curriculum and student performance results to determine appropriate literacy support
• Action plan development to implement a center-wide literacy initiative that builds students' self-efficacy as learners
• Use of literacy assessment rubrics and walkthroughs to monitor progress

Analysis of State and National Certification Tests to Improve Instruction

• Templates to analyze the reading and cognitive demands of certification tests
• Set of test preparation and literacy instructional strategies to help students meet these cognitive demands and achieve greater success on the tests

Analysis and Dissemination of Center-wide Promising Practices

• On-site visitations to review promising literacy initiatives and provide technical assistance to support improvement and extensions
• Analytic report of promising practice as it relates to research-based literacy practices
• Support in constructing dissemination structures for district and state literacy sharing