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Trade, Industry & Technical Education

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Trade, Industry, and Technical Education strives to teach and model industry standards in the lab and classroom so that job skill training can be enhanced.

Standards & Frameworks

Standards & Frameworks

Events / Professional Development Opportunities

Events

CTSO Conference Dates

Professional Development Opportunities

Automotive Technology Education 
     ASE Instructor Training Conference July 12-15, 2022
     ISA-TOPE Training August 1-2, 2022
     MTTA Annual Conference August 2-4, 2022  

     
 

General Resources

Current State Programs

Contact Information

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Distance Education Resources

All Trade, Technical, & Industry Programs 

ACTE 

CTE Online

  • With thousands of Lesson Plans aligned to CTE, Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards, as well as Integrated STEAM/STEM projects and model course outlines you can copy and share.
  • https://www.cteonline.org/

CTE Coalition – Keep CTE Moving

  • Keep CTE Moving allows those instructors and students to access hundreds of online classes, videos, and instructional materials in areas such as machining, welding, mechatronics, industry 4.0, and programming. All online materials — many available at no charge for the next 30 days — are produced by the coalition partners. These resources will help CTE faculty and students adapt teaching and learning to a new virtual environment with the flexibility to learn now and test hands-on skills later.
  • CTE instructors are urged to visit Keep CTE Moving regularly for new partners, more learning resources and guidance that will evolve over time.
  • https://ctecoalition.com/

EduTech

SkillsUSA Career Essentials

  • Recognizing these challenging circumstances, SkillsUSA is offering two of our courses (exploratory and fundamental) for purchase in smaller, deeply discounted segments, allowing teachers flexible options during the uncertainty of this current health crisis. 
  • SkillsUSA Career Essentials: Experiences courses are available for:
    • Early high school students (Fundamental – approximately 35 hours to complete)
    • Upper high school students (Advanced – approximately 45 hours to complete)
    • College students (Advanced or Adult Learner – approximately 45 hours to complete)
  • https://www.skillsusa.org/skillsusa-career-essentials-discounts/ For full details on this offer.

Recording Lectures

  • Daily/Weekly lectures can easily be recorded through a variety of platforms. 
  • If you already utilize a learning management system in your school, check out the recording and sharing capabilities there first. If not, platforms like teams and Zoom will allow you to record a "meeting" (you can be the only one in the meeting) to share out to your classes.

TITH Resource Sharing

Today’s Class 

  • Offers comprehensive courses in the following areas: Agriculture, Automotive/Diesel Tech, Health Sciences, Workplace Readiness.  They are currently offering free access to all program areas.  
  • https://www.todaysclass.com/ 

 

Automotive/Collision/Transportation 

ACTE Additional Program Area Resources

Automotive/Collision/Transportation Resource Sharing

  • 4-21-20 Transportation Cluster Meet-up Recording

ASE Foundation & Industry Partners

  • Many industry partners offer online training curriculum or modules and are extending an invitation for instructors at ASE Accredited programs and their students to make use of these resources for FREE! Some offers are only available through the end of the semester or the end of the summer, but others are open-ended.
  • This link leads to a page FULL of additional links for Automotive instructors from various industry partners.
  • https://www.aseeducationfoundation.org/elearning

Electude 

  • Electude is a vendor that delivers e-learning to automotive teacher/students and is offering free access to their online solutions to non-current customers: Automotive Essentials, Electric Drive and Heavy Vehicle Systems. 
  • Contact directly to set up w/ their learning platform: workfromhome@electude.com 
  • Electrude is also holding daily webinars to fast track teachers new to Electrude: electude.com/webinars 

Today’s Class 

  • Offers comprehensive courses in the following areas: Agriculture, Automotive/Diesel Tech, Health Sciences, Workplace Readiness.  They are currently offering free access to all program areas.  
  • https://www.todaysclass.com/ 

 

Building Trades 

ACTE Additional Program Area Resources

Building Trades Resource Sharing

Construction Instruction (Instructor Recommendation)

ESCO Group 

  • To assist HVACR students and technicians in continuing their education, ESCO Institute is hosting FREE webinars. Webinars are offered both On-demand and Live. 
  • https://www.escogroup.org/ (Click on the Blue Webinars button) 

Home Builders Institute (HBI)

  • Complimentary online access to Flexible Instruction Days (FIDs) comes in response to increasing Career Technical Education (CTE) requests across the nation and does not require textbooks or workbooks to accommodate self-paced learning. Students will learn fundamental knowledge and skills, such as safety, communication, social media presence and interviewing techniques. 
  • http://www.hbi.org/Products-Services/Online-Learning 

Realityworks 

Virtual Graph Paper (Instructor Recommendation)

  • Various online sources allow you to draw out designs on graph paper, allowing for you students to create simple plans for a home
  • http://print-graph-paper.com/
  • Search Virtual Graph paper to find one that would work best for your class

Culinary/Restaurant

ACTE Additional Program Area Resources

ServSafe – Free Online Courses and Training

  • For 30 years, ServSafe has been at the forefront of preparing restaurant and foodservice workers to deliver safe dining experiences for their guests, while also keeping themselves safe. Every day, we train the restaurant and food service industry on topics like cooking temperatures, safe storage, and cross contamination, as well as hygiene, sanitation, and other risk mitigation activities. Because of the challenges presented by COVID-19, we have developed a number of free resources aimed at keeping our workers and the dining public safe.
  • https://bit.ly/2WT2k0L

 

Welding 

ACTE Additional Program Area Resources

Welding Resource Sharing

American Welding Society - AWS (Instructor Recommendation)

Miller Electric Company

  • Miller® OpenBook is a free learning management system (LMS) used to plan, implement, offer and assess learning processes. With OpenBook, welding instructors can assign and deliver welding content, create quizzes, welding labs, monitor student participation, and assess and report student progress and performance.

  • This LMS offers a wide variety of welding resources and course materials — such as e-learning modules, hands-on welding labs and quizzes. Instructors can utilize the content available to create their own course. Simply create an account, register your school or company and you are ready to get started.

  • https://www.millerwelds.com/resources/article-library/new-learning-management-system-designed-for-welding-instructors

National Coalition of Certification Centers (NC3)

Realityworks 

WeldingInstructors.org (Instructor Recommendation)

  • AWS Educatory Community - Online Discussion for Welding Instructors
  • This link includes past meeting recording and NEW Weekly meeting Invites (located at the bottom of the page)
  • https://weldinginstructors.org/