Onsite Workshops Available for Teachers

The Resource Center can work with you and your teachers to conduct an onsite professional development workshop that fits your specific needs. Contact us by phone (205-345-2725) or email for more information on the workshops below, or let us customize a workshop for you.

Integrating Industry into Career Technical Schools and Shops
- Creating Advisory Committees that function
- Making shops/labs reflect industry
- Allowing industry leaders to be present in classroom/shop
Implementing Changes Necessary for Today's Career Technical Education
- Changing teaching techniques
- Allowing students to make decisions
- Involving industry
- Utilizing group techniques
- Integrating project-based teaching
- Integrating technology into curriculum
What Happened to Our Career Technical Programs?
- Why is finding qualified teachers more difficult?
- New teachers vs. educational and training requirements
- Keeping up to date both technically and professionally
- What to do because funds are lacking
- How to recruit students
- How to retain students
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
- Why are programs disappearing?
- Where did professionalism go?
- Why are younger teachers not as professional as older teachers?
- Where is your industry involvement?
- How do you stack up with local industry?
- How do you stack up with local community?
- How do you stack up with local school population?
Project-Based Teaching
- Value of project-based teaching
- What is true project-based learning?
- Why many teachers do not understand how to utilize it
- Why should I do it?
- When is it used?
- How to implement it

Professional Development and Growth Workshop

No Career Technical Teacher Left Behind

Do your teachers need this workshop? Try this survey:

Yes No

My teachers are current and up to date

My teachers use 21st Century teaching techniques

My teachers involve students in the learning process

We have good program enrollment

My teachers are actively involved in student recruitment

My programs are offering the current trends in curriculum

We have community support; the community would go to bat for our school

Our advisory committees are active in the programs and school

If you answered no to any of these questions, then let the Resource Center help you.

We can deliver a 3- to 6-hour professional development program designed to meet the needs of your teachers.

The importance of professional development
Converting professional development into professional growth
Staying current with new teaching techniques
The know-how to reach today’s student
Turning instruction into a fun and exciting learning experience
Innovative programs that recruit, retain, and teach students
Offering curriculum that meets the needs of the students

This unique professional development program is tailored to meet the specific needs of your faculty and is conducted at your school at your teachers’ convenience. Workshop content includes:

Professional Development and Growth
- Defining Professional Development
- Professional Development Facts
- Improving Teaching Skills through Professional Development
- Types of Professional Development Activities
- How Professional Development Leads to Professional Growth
- Keeping Professional Growth Records
Recruiting and Retaining Students
- Serious Recruiting Methods
- Retaining Students
- Implementing an Attractive Program
Making Teaching Fun
- Characteristics of Motivational Instruction
- Motivating Students
- Student-Centered Learning
- Motivational Techniques
- Adding Variety to Class
- Icebreakers
- Difference Between Traditional and Modern Teaching
Implementing a Contextual Learning Program
- Defining Contextual Learning
- Locating Contextual Learning Sites Online
- Implementing a Contextual Plan
- Evaluating Contextual Learning

For additional information, contact:

The Resource Center
Phone: 205-345-2725
Email