Career & Technical Teacher Education Program

We’ll help you prepare to teach at a career and technical center.

The Career & Technical Teacher Education Program (CTTEP) is part of the process for industry and business professionals to earn a Vermont State teaching license and to learn the art of teaching high school students in one of Vermont’s 17 career and technical centers. The program is designed to help new technical educators, through coursework and coaching, to become experts not only in their professional field of training but as individuals sharing their skills by teaching.

Alternative route to earning your teaching license

CTTEP is an alternative route to Vermont teacher licensure, servicing educators who are hired at a technical center and then actively teach under a four-year apprentice license. 

Once hired at a Vermont career and technical center, teachers can enter the CTTEP four-year program to obtain a Level I Educator License. To qualify for enrollment in the program, applicants must be either a:

• High school graduate with at least six years of experience in the desired trade, or
• Hold an associate degree or higher with four years of work-related experience.

CTTEP Course Schedule:

Summer 2022 Courses:

• EDU 2051: Teaching Methods I (CTE Apprenticeship License)
  • This course prepares new CTE teachers coming from their professions to intellectually and emotionally engage their students in academically rigorous activities to teach 21st century skills.
• EDU 3052: Teaching Methods IV (CTE Apprenticeship License)
  • This course improves the competence, self-efficacy, and career commitment of new CTE teachers entering from their professions so that their students are intellectually and emotionally engaged in rich, academically vigorous activities in which they develop 21st century skills. The final of four teaching methods courses, it focuses on classroom management; development and implementation of curriculum; and best teaching practices. It revisits prior years’ curriculum and its application on the classroom and further improves it based on knowledge and experience.
• EDU 3115: Issues & Trends in CTE (for those adding CTE endorsement)
  • This course covers current issues in technical education and includes an in-depth examination of state and federal laws and policies that impact Vermont’s career and technical education centers and how these centers can create welcoming, safe, and respectful learning environments for all students. Topics include creating culturally relevant career and technical education program curricula; ensuring gender equity in career and technical education; issues of social class and poverty and the academic achievement gap in career and technical education; issues of race and recognizing racism in career and technical education; cultivating respectful school, technical program, and classroom climates; professional ethics; and continuous professional growth and learning.

Fall 2022 Courses:

• EDU 2052: Teaching Methods II (CTE Apprenticeship License)
  • This course is a continuation of EDU 2051 that focuses on further skills to manage the classroom; develop and implement curriculum; and engage in best teaching practices.
• EDU 2135: Special Needs (CTE Apprenticeship License/those adding CTE endorsement)
  • This course teaches technical educators how students learn differently, with an overview of applicable education laws for students with and without disabilities and how schools must provide multiple layers of support for students. It discusses assessment, eligibility, the special education process, and the components of an Individualized Education Plan, as well as 504 and EST plans and how technical educators may provide an environment that’s more focused on students’ strengths than weaknesses. It addresses the collaborative role the technical instructor plays in the education plan developed for these learners.
• EDU 2200: Assessment in the CTE Classroom (CTE Apprenticeship License)
  • This course is for educators in CTE environments who are striving to implement a proficiency-based learning and assessment approach. Educators use their program’s intended learning standards/skills, scope, and sequence documentation and targeted assessments and begin to analyze and adjust assessments to show evidence of proficiency in order to better promote student learning and accountability within the context of proficiency-based learning.
• EDU 4600: Education Capstone – Level 1 Licensure Portfolio (CTE Apprenticeship License)
  • This course helps the student create a professional portfolio for Level I Vermont Teacher Licensure and reviews the Results Oriented Program Approval manual, which serves as a guide to compiling a targeted, thorough, and reflective portfolio.

Spring 2023 Courses:

• PSY 2110: Educational Psychology (CTE Apprenticeship License/those adding CTE endorsement)
  • This course examines the psychological constructs surrounding instruction and learning in the classroom. Topics include personality theory, motivation, cognition, developmental issues, family systems, class discipline, hope, anger, sexuality, gender, change, collegiality, and parental interaction. Strategies to create healthy relationships are a central focus.
• EDU 2802: Educational Externship (CTE Apprenticeship License)
  • This is an education externship for the new CTE teacher. Students will visit another Vermont CTE classroom and document professional involvement. It includes assignments aligning with the Level I Licensing Portfolio including videoing instruction and a self-reflection.
• EDU 3051: Teaching Methods III (CTE Apprenticeship License)
  • This course improves the competence, self-efficacy, and career commitment of new CTE teachers entering from their professions so that their students are intellectually and emotionally engaged in rich, academically vigorous activities in which they develop 21st century skills. The third of four teaching methods courses, it focuses on classroom management; development and implementation of curriculum; and best teaching practices.
• EDU 3115: Issues & Trends in CTE (CTE Apprenticeship License/those adding CTE endorsement)
  • This course covers current issues in technical education and includes an in-depth examination of state and federal laws and policies that impact Vermont’s career and technical education centers and how these centers can create welcoming, safe, and respectful learning environments for all students. Topics include creating culturally relevant career and technical education program curricula; ensuring gender equity in career and technical education; issues of social class and poverty and the academic achievement gap in career and technical education; issues of race and recognizing racism in career and technical education; cultivating respectful school, technical program, and classroom climates; professional ethics; and continuous professional growth and learning.

Enrollment in these courses requests the permission of the Program Director.