M. Branham, a CTE agriculture teacher who has been teaching the past five years shares her views on CTE education, funding and academics. When asked what changes CTE courses needed, she stated there needed to be a stronger focus on workplace skills, students needed to have student ownership and to be responsible. In the high school arena, students are still quite immature when dealing with people and being good employees. Other areas that needed focused on are things like showing up for work on time, completing assignments (job duties) and over-all being responsible.
In the area of funding. Mrs. Branham stated that funding would be increased, but still funding lies in census. The more students in CTE programs the more funds would given. Perkin's Funding, which is a federal funding program, in the future will be easier to obtain. More grants are are in the works.
Academics still needs to be a primary focus, although students may not be interested in them. Incorporating academics with CTE programs shows students how important academics are and how they will use them once out of school, giving geometry as an example in building a home.
Changes are being seen with more a more positive outlook than in the past few years. We can only hope that positive changes will become the norm and programs will not regress in the future.
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