Great idea to have CTE for all. Unfortunately those are the lowest paid teaching jobs in high school no auto technician is leaving a $100k+ job to teach. In addition, many auto techs don’t have the personality to be a teacher. Therefore, most auto tech classes are run like a hobby class (I’ve been recruiting automotive technicians in high school auto classes for several years). Until we can truly teach CTE with professionals in the field who have had basic classroom management training, many of the actually classrooms will be ineffective except for creating an interest in the subject. One more thought, if the class is run by a teacher without classroom management skills, slackers flock to the class making it even more difficult for a student truly interested in learning about a career option. I’ve definitely seen a well run automotive classroom and the result is night and day more positive but there are big challenges here.
Good pts! Something we actually address in an upcoming higher ed episode of Future U. -- but similar issues. That said, I think one of the recs is how Big Picture has handled this, which is to get the "CTE" portion out of the classroom and actually in the workforce itself. So students are being "supervised" as they do real work in the field. More apprenticeship/internship-like. But really good points with which to grapple! Requires us to rethink human capital structures.
Great idea to have CTE for all. Unfortunately those are the lowest paid teaching jobs in high school no auto technician is leaving a $100k+ job to teach. In addition, many auto techs don’t have the personality to be a teacher. Therefore, most auto tech classes are run like a hobby class (I’ve been recruiting automotive technicians in high school auto classes for several years). Until we can truly teach CTE with professionals in the field who have had basic classroom management training, many of the actually classrooms will be ineffective except for creating an interest in the subject. One more thought, if the class is run by a teacher without classroom management skills, slackers flock to the class making it even more difficult for a student truly interested in learning about a career option. I’ve definitely seen a well run automotive classroom and the result is night and day more positive but there are big challenges here.
Good pts! Something we actually address in an upcoming higher ed episode of Future U. -- but similar issues. That said, I think one of the recs is how Big Picture has handled this, which is to get the "CTE" portion out of the classroom and actually in the workforce itself. So students are being "supervised" as they do real work in the field. More apprenticeship/internship-like. But really good points with which to grapple! Requires us to rethink human capital structures.