The Career and Technical Education (CTE) Teacher Induction Program (TIP) is for all newly licensed Tier 1 and Tier 2 CTE teachers (i.e., those who have not completed a teacher preparation program), as well as those teaching CTE on an Out-of-Field Permission (OFP). Teachers of color and indigenous persons receive priority in our program. We recommend newly licensed Tier 3 CTE teachers, regardless of which teacher preparation program they completed, join one of our content specific mentoring programs: AFNR TIP, B&M TIP, FCS TIP, HSE TIP, T&I TIP, or WBL TIP.
The purpose of CTE TIP is to function as a professional learning community for early career CTE teachers and support their development, efficacy, success, resilience, and retention. Participation provides just-in-time monthly professional development, mentorship, and a cohort of support.
Lakes Country Service Cooperative and the Minnesota Association for Career and Technical Education (MnACTE) administer CTE TIP, with major support from the Minnesota Service Cooperatives’ (MSC) CTE Consortium Grant and Minnesota Department of Education’s (MDE) Teacher Mentorship and Retention of Effective Teachers Grant.
About the Program
The objectives of CTE TIP are to:
- provide monthly professional development,
- provide teaching, program, and curricular resources,
- provide mentoring and coaching,
- facilitate programing to address early career teacher challenges,
- provide CTE focused pedagogical resources and support,
- provide an opportunity to analyze and reflect up on teaching, and
- build teacher efficacy, resilience and influence job satisfaction and teacher retention.
