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This podcast contains a variety of episodes developed to assist you, the CTE teacher, as you strive to incorporate 21st Century Teaching/Learning, Common Core Standards, Literacy & Math, and other areas of focus that seem the change from year to year.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · August 2026
A workshop-recording archive where CTE teachers show, in specific classroom detail, how they built literacy and tech training into vocational courses.
The DMEC Career & Technical Education Podcast works like an archive of professional-development sessions for CTE teachers, built from recorded workshops rather than studio conversation.
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A grounded look at how one agriculture teacher rethinks literacy through an LDC module.
The review follows an agriculture teacher who comes to LDC as a skeptic. After 16 years in the classroom, with students passing end-of-course exams, he does not see much reason to change. A three-day training at Hope shifts that confidence, especially when Ms.
A practical workshop on making literacy feel native to CTE instruction, from soda cracker pie to student writing gains.
Literacy lands as concrete classroom practice in this workshop conversation, as reading and writing are folded into CTE instruction without treating them as add-ons.
A grounded guide to building trust, holding boundaries, and keeping high school students engaged in a post-secondary setting.
Teaching high school students here becomes a question of measured authority. The instructor links slower uptake and certain classroom behaviors to physiology, but the stronger point is practical: young students still need clear adult expectations, steady correction, and enough…
A practical SAM workshop connects guided computer practice with independent work and shared exam-building.
This SAM workshop works as a clear, practical look at simulated Office 07 training, with the focus on how students move from watching a task to doing it alone.
A grounded look at teaching students to read technical material by modeling the process before handing it over.
Literacy in CTE frames reading as a core part of technical learning, starting with classroom libraries of nonfiction books chosen to fit each teacher's content area.
Australian teaching, examined from the classroom outward.
Student-driven science, made classroom-real.
Practical ESL teaching, beyond the lesson plan.
Practical momentum for modern FCS educators.
Staffroom honesty for better education.
What male educators carry behind the face they show students.
A CTE teacher describes starting the LDC process in 2012 at a three-day training at Hope, then coming back to Oden High School and reworking an agriculture classroom around literacy.
Two CTE teachers share their experiences integrating literacy and technology into their family and consumer science and agriculture classrooms.
A CTE teacher educator discusses strategies for effectively teaching high school students, addressing their unique attitudes and behaviors.
A CTE teacher explains how to use a simulated Office 07 training tool with observe, practice, and apply modes for students.
A CTE teacher discusses a literacy project involving nonfiction books and accelerated reader programs to improve student reading in content areas.