Erie\u2019s Public Schools\u2019 Career and Technical Education program<\/a> encompasses 18 different programs that help students find a personal path to success in fields such as automotive technology, digital media, early childhood education, engineering, construction trades and protective services.<\/p>\nThe Aspiring Educators is a two-year program that prepares its students to become elementary and\/or secondary school teachers using a curriculum that encourages students to use leadership, ethics, communication and decision-making skills in order to address the current challenges in the education field.<\/p>\n
Students in the program will have the opportunity to learn in a classroom that they design and equip, while covering topics such as lesson preparation strategies, classroom management skills, the stages of child development, special education practices, professionalism and ethics.<\/p>\n
The students will participate in field experiences across all grade levels where they learn from Erie\u2019s very own Public Schools teachers.<\/p>\n
The Aspiring Educators program is based at Northwest Pennsylvania Collegiate Academy, but it is open to junior and senior high school students from any EPS high school.<\/p>\n
Including Erie High School, Collegiate Academy or the Patrick J. DiPaolo Student Success Center at Emerson Gridley – enrolled in the district\u2019s Career and Technical Education (CTE) program<\/p>\n
This program is funded partially through the Pennsylvania State Education Association. The association was awarded a three-year, $250,000 Great Public Schools Grant from the National Education Association and was provided $10,000 toward the program\u2019s curriculum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erie\u2019s Public Schools have announced the launch of a new career and technical education program that will focus…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[10906,136,138,137,6704,497,5381,3316],"class_list":{"0":"post-17042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-career","9":"tag-erie","10":"tag-erie-headlines","11":"tag-erie-news","12":"tag-high-school","13":"tag-learning","14":"tag-success","15":"tag-teachers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}