Teacher Retention- " Perkins Funding and Legislation"

 
Last evening's class focused on Perkins Legislation. Many of you shared thoughts of how teacher recruitment and teacher retention could use improvement in the CTE area. Please be creative and think and write about what you think would be a good process to improve teacher retention in CTE. If you had the Perkins money to spend in this area, what would you do?





Career and technical education teachers help student's in middle and high school develop career related and technical skills. CTE teachers also assist students explore or prepare students to enter a particular occupation such as culinary arts, healthcare, auto mechanics, business and cosmetology.

In retaining good skilled CTE teachers, administrators should dig deeper and become supportive of the various programs offered in their building. Many CTE teachers resign after one year of teaching because they are simply overwhelmed with the paperwork, meetings, and behavior of the students. They lack support from administrators with resolving some of these issues. Also many new CTE teachers have never been in a classroom setting and needs more pedagogy in order for them to be successful.

If I had money from Perkins, I would use it for better kitchen equipment, field trips that would provide my culinary art students with hands on activities and professional lab jackets for all students in the area of culinary arts. This will allow students  to feel better about themselves in their chosen career pathway.