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CTE 2013 Certification Information Schedule
| Ms. Nancy Johnston |
Ms. Nancy Johnston serves as Coordinator of Teacher Certification, Advising, and Admissions. She is a former cooperative education coordinator, department chair, and business education teacher at the Bristol Township School District. |
| New Teacher Workshops for Career and Technical (CTE) Teacher Interns |
The workshop is the opening session of the initial certification course and attendance is required. This transitional experience focuses on crucial information and skills needed by every beginning teacher to be effective in the classroom. Administrators recommend new CTE teachers to the Center. The next opportunity to attend a workshop is August 5-9, 2013 at Immaculata University To receive additional information about a workshop, call 215-204-8383. |
| Twenty-fifth Annual Family and Consumer Sciences Academy |
On Tuesday, August 7, 2012, 48 FCS professionals attended the second day of the Academy at Temple Ambler campus. Dr. Lindsey Shirley, FCS Teacher Educator & Extension Specialist from Utah State University, presented the morning program called “The Future of FCS: Tools for Creating an Innovative, Dynamic, and Relevant Program for the Youth of Today.” The afternoon program, “Promoting your FCS Program through Certified Family and Consumer Sciences (CFCS), State and national Teacher of the Year (TOY), Grants and Technology,” was delivered by Sharon Baillie. Ms. Baillie was the 2011 PA State and National American Association of FCS Teacher of the Year. Click here to learn more about our speakers. |
| Career and Technical Education (CTE) Reading Project |
 Dr. Chester P. Wichowski directed the CTE Reading Project recently identified as a Promising Practice by the National Center for Research in Career and Technical Education. A result of the research is a Facilitators’ Guidebook for Reading Strategy Workshops in Reciprocal Teaching, Scaffolding, and Journaling. The content of this document served as the primary component in five years of Pennsylvania Governor’s Institutes on Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening (RWSL) as well as two week-long professional development workshops for Philadelphia CTE teachers. In 2009, a follow-up survey explored the effective use of reading strategies by classroom teachers who participated in the Governor's Institutes. Dr. Wichowsk reported on this reading project at the Association for Career and Technical Education National Conference in St. Louis Missouri November 17-19, 2011. |
The Temple Center conducts New Teacher Workshops each year in January and August. In attendance are beginning Career and Technical Education (CTE) teachers representing schools throughout eastern Pennsylvania. The Center’s Will Nause directs this semi-annual activity. Temple Field Resource Associates, CTE teachers, and other teacher education professionals, provide information to the new teachers about teaching standards, classroom management, instructional planning and delivery, and professionalism. The new teachers also have an opportunity to spend a day at Temple University touring the main campus. The IHM Spirituality Center at Immaculata University has been the venue for many years. 
On Monday, August 6, 2012, 41 FCS professionals attended the 25th Annual Temple FCS Academy, held at Lehigh Carbon Community College. The event was coordinated by Dr. Nancy Erwin of the Temple Center for Professional Development in Career & Technical Education. Dr. Jan Bowers, 2011-12 Administrative Fellow for the American Council on Education at Northern Arizona University, presented a program called “Learning for Life: An Integrative Approach to FCS through Academic Service Learning.” Participants received a monograph of the same title co-authored by the presenter and a colleague. The afternoon session was a program update from Jean Kelleher, FCS Program Specialist from PDE.