Career and Technical Education (CTE) may have taken a backseat during the isolation of the pandemic, with less opportunities for collaboration and hands-on learning, but the possibilities for these students are still unlimited. Let’s build something amazing for them!
Our Top 5 Tools for CTE Programs:
1. Checklist: Are Your CTE Initiatives Teaching 21st Century Skills?
With students constantly immersed in technology you need engaging, hands-on activities to keep a connection to real-life and real-world experiences. With this in mind, we’ve created this 6-step checklist to help you assess building a new CTE program or enhancing your current one.
Download the 6-step checklist.
2. Playbook: Building Career and Technical Programs That Work
You may be considering whether you have the right staff, resources, funding, student enrollment, or nearby secondary support for a CTE initiative. We’re here to tell you that you do, and we’ve put together resources, backed by examples, to prove it. Download our playbook, Building Career and Technical Programs That Work, to learn about what a CTE program entails, how to measure your capacity to implement, grant funding opportunities available, school program examples, and much more.
Download VariQuest's Playbook.
3. Funding Alignment: Carl D. Perkins Funding
Our tools support Career and Technical Education (CTE)programs by offering creative and hands-on learning opportunities that translate into occupational and post-secondary real-world experiences. Download this funding alignment guide to understand the parameters of Carl D. Perkins funding and how the VariQuest tools can help you meet your goals.
Download our Funding Guide.
Download VariQuest's Funding Guide.
4. Super School: The Career Academy
The Career Academy in Lincoln, Nebraska implemented a professional development program based on common career clusters in an effort to provide area high school juniors and seniors opportunities to learn job skills in a chosen field. Read more about how students refined their graphic design, manufacturing, and production skills in creating a customized water bottle company, successfully selling their products and even producing commercials that was entered into a national competition.
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5. Brochure: VariQuest and CTE
By integrating meaningful visuals and hands-on learning, the VariQuest Visual and Kinesthetic Learning Suite enhances all 16 CareerClusters™. See how these tools can support various career pathways and apply real-world skills in setting up a student-based enterprise for your school. View costs, supports, case studies, and more!
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Preparing students for a successful future is the most important thing educators do. We’ve gathered 5 resources with our friends at VariQuest to help you not only build a successful CTE program, but to create something that makes a difference in the lives of your students.
