The Academy can customize programs around the following topics or teaching content with input from your organization. Click here for an example of a Praxis Academy for Entry-Year Career-Technical Educators. The Praxis Academy sample is provided as a customized solution for Miami Valley Career Technology Center (CTC) to host for their teachers and is open to other career-technical educators from surrounding JVS and CTCs.

List of Entry-Year Topics—Designed for Beginning CTE Teachers

• What Being a Teacher Is All About!
• Revisiting Curriculum
• Course of Study Revision
• Revisiting Teaching Strategies and Methods (Effective Lesson Planning)
• Revisiting Classroom and Lab Management (Safety)
• Revisiting Community Relations Skill
• Praxis—How to Prepare for Praxis II
• Entry-Year Program—Mentoring (first-year teachers): Turnover problem/legislated but not funded
• Praxis—How to Prepare for Praxis III
• Individual Teacher One-on-One Coaching ($50-60 per hour)
• Supervising and Mentoring the Beginning Teachers: An Affirming Approach
• Effective Discipline
• How to Deal with Difficult People (students, teachers, administrators, parents)
• Working with the Low-Motivated Student
• How to Match Teaching Styles to Learning Styles
• Assessing Student Learning—Start Where Your Students Are!
• Developing Your Professional Development Portfolio

Continuing Professional Development

• Authentic Teaching and Learning
• Academies and Small Learning Communities
• Administrative Leadership
• Advisor/Advisee Programs
• At-Risk Youth and Development
• Brain-Based Learning
• Career Development
• Career Pathways
• Contextual Teaching
• Course Syllabi
• Creating a Cohesive School Team
• Curriculum Development and Mapping
• Diversity/Multicultural Education
• Economic Education
• Emotional Intelligence
• Entrepreneurship
• Establishing Internal and External Partnerships
• Exemplary Programs and Best Practices
• Filling the Gap: Goal Action Planning for Adult Learners
• ITACS (Occupational Programming)
• Literacy Issues
• Problem- and Project-Based Learning
• Rubric Development
• School Climate
• School Improvement Strategies
• Student Work-Based Learning
• Teacher Externships
• Tools for Teaching
• Tool Kit for Alternative Assessment

Professional Development for CTE Administration

• Grant-writing
• Assessments
• Testing/WebExam
• Evaluation
• Dealing with Stress and Burnout
• Continuous Improvement Plan (CIP)
• Customized Researched Recommendation— Solutions for Problem or Need
• Independent Needs Assessments/Survey/Evaluation Services
• Text Book Selection Services
• Teaching Critical Thinking though the Problem-Solving Approach to Teaching

Training Focused toward Business and Industry

• Learning or knowing how to learn
• Competence in reading, writing, and computation
• Effective listening skills
• Train the Trainer
• Presentation and oral communication skills
• Adaptability through creative and innovative thinking
• Problem solving and decision making
• Personal and time management—work ethic with strong self-esteem and initiative
• Interpersonal and coaching skills
• Teamwork—the ability to work in teams or groups
• Leadership and change management
• Basic technology skills
• SCID
• DACUM
• Work Keys
• Decision Making

Should you have a topic that you do not see on the list, the Academy for Excellence in Teaching can assist in finding the resources and constructing the program.