The Region XIII Career and Technical Education Program (CTE) is a 12 month program that provides a probationary (not an emergency) teaching certificate for the internship year. This performance-based program provides intensive instruction during Orientation and throughout the internship year, and provides teaching certificates for all eight CTE areas. See CTE Certifications for more details
The curriculum for CTE is aligned with the State Board for Educator Certification standards and educational Best Practices. During the internship year, the teacher-intern is hired by a district as the teacher of record with full pay and full benefits. Upon successful completion of the internship year (or student teaching option for Austin-area cohort applicants only) along with related program and state licensing requirements, participants earn a Standard teaching certificate specific to their CTE teaching assignment/area of study.
CTE was designed for those who already have education, work experience, and/or licensure/certification in their content area, but need to obtain a Texas Teaching Certificate. This program provides performance- and field-based teacher preparation and strategies for CTE program improvement.
Whether you have skills as a health professional, business professional, or any of a number of areas in trades and industry, such as construction, auto mechanics, welding, electronics, etc., we can provide you with the training you need to use those skills in teaching today's middle school and high school students.
During the internship year, the teacher-intern is hired by a district as the teacher of record with full pay and full benefits. Upon successful completion of the internship year along with related program and state licensing requirements, participants earn a Standard teaching certificate specific to their teaching assignment/area of study.
Austin: Teacher-interns employed by schools within the Region XIII service area, as well as those from schools within a 100-mile radius of Austin, attend classes at the Region XIII Education Service Center in Austin.
Statewide: Teacher-interns employed by schools within a defined area surrounding each of the distance learning sites attend classes via video teleconference at the site designated for that area.
Training Topics include:
- establishing a positive classroom environment
- preparing for first days/weeks of school
- managing student/classroom behavior
- planning and creating developmentally appropriate instruction (curriculum and lesson plans)
- delivering instruction
- establishing/revitalizing CTE student organizations
- preparing for formal classroom observations
- increasing awareness and knowledge of CTE issues and initiatives
- integrating CTE into campus/district
- developing and using student assessments
- understanding student diversity and instructional differentiation
- marketing CTE courses/programs
- developing partnerships and collaboration in CTE programs
- exploring strategies to implement and manage work-based learning
- using a variety of instructional strategies to increase rigor and relevance
