The Career and Technical Education Teaching Academy (CTE Teaching Academy) increases qualified teachers' pipeline and improve current teacher knowledge and skills in fields specific to teaching in Career and Technical Education (CTE). The CTE Teaching Academy is an 15-credit certificate program at Utah State University that focuses primarily on improving participants' understanding of the pedagogy required to teach CTE content through competency-based education methods. This program is designed to provide current educators a path to obtaining their CTE-content specific license or endorsement. Courses can also be used to fulfill professional development requirements for current teachers.
Why Choose USU's CTE Teaching Academy
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100% online & mostly self-paced
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Relevant, real-world teaching strategies for CTE Teachers
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Aligned with professional standards and licensure requirements
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Affordable options for growth and advancement
Who It's For
- Looking to refresh or enhance your teaching skills?
- Join our online, mostly self-paced pedagogy courses—designed specifically for CTE educators.
- Need coursework aligned with APPEL requirements?
- Our courses offer a CTE-specific pathway to professional licensure.
- Our CTE-focused pedagogy courses help you build essential teaching skills, even if your background is industry-specific.
- Affordable, flexible options available for academic credit and continuing education credit.
- Choose what best fits your professional goals.
Course Delivery and Fees
All the courses will be taught online via Canvas asynchronously to provide flexibility for students.
CTE Teaching Academy Course Offerings
Fall Semesters:
This course is focused on instructional methodology, teaching approaches, and principles of teaching diverse populations of students in laboratory and classroom settings within Career and Technical Education.
This course provides an overview of the various methods used to measure and evaluate student achievement within the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains with emphasis on performance-based, authentic assessment specific to the Career and Technical Education classroom.
This course focuses on principles and strategies for increasing teachers’ effectiveness and satisfaction in classroom management and discipline within Career and Technical Education. This course also focuses on establishing a positive classroom learning environment, student engagement, and motivation.
Spring Semesters:
This course is focused on instructional methodology, teaching approaches, and principles of teaching diverse populations of students in laboratory and classroom settings within Career and Technical Education.
This course is focused on the principles and practices of curriculum and course development in Career and Technical Education. The course emphasizes program, course, unit, and daily curriculum design.
This course is designed to help students and teachers understand the role of technology and media in CTE programs and to teach them how to use media and digital technologies effectively and appropriately.
Tyson Sorensen
Associate Professor | Agricultural Education, Teacher Education
