Marc Tiernan

Governtment is a huge entitity. It is best to start at the Grassroots level and adovate for CTE at the local and state levels. 

It is important to remember their a very specific criteria for spending Perkins Funds and asking questions about where and how the funds or being spent. While many things purchased could be linked to CTE that does not garuntee they qualify for perkins spending. 

The rules generally support the goal. Some however related to limits at the middle school level or the inability to cover the cost of elemenraty CTE programing limits the ability to grow excitment and awarness of CTE opportunites for students to older grades where many students may have already begun to choose a potential career path. 

The CTE spepcifc process seems best aligned to mee the needs of CTE teachersa. I believe this approach will help drive imporved instructional practice and content knowledge among CTE teachers. 

I have always heard of National Boards but I have not looked in to it much. I want to continue to learn more and encourage my teachers to apply.

Evaluating teachers can be done using a variety of methods and systems. Each Framework although similiar has unquie differences that should be considered when choosing the framework to be used in a school or school district. 

Being at a comprehnsive high school my CTE teachers are evaluated usaing the same observation tool as all other teachers. I am exctied to learn about a wide variety of observation models their pros and cons as well as how they can serve my teachers and students. 

I have learned that administrators, teachers, coaches, and students must all be commited to student success. A clear mission, vison, and communication are essential. 

I resonated with  the message that great teachers go beyond content knowledge. Great teachers understand  knowledge and pedagogy should be comnibed to conduct best practices. It is essential that coaches effectively communicate with teachers and model strong pedagogy. I support numerous CTE areas and plan to focus my coaching on pedagogy as I often do not have high levels of conten knowledge in all areas I support.

My disitict uses student centered coaching and this affirmed much of the work I am doing with our CTE teachers. I learned more about setting goals with teachers and putting the strategies in to practice.