What is a CTE subject?
CTE stands for Career Technical Education and it includes a variety of courses and programs that teach the high demand skills that are needed to get a job, cross-train for different positions, or retrain for a new career. Some examples of CTE subjects include subjects in Agriculture, Business, Economics and Finance, Family and Consumer Sciences, Health Sciences, Information Technology, Marketing, Technology and Engineering, and Trade and Technical. Career and technical education covers a variety of challenging fields in diverse subject areas which are constantly evolving due to the changing global economy. Many CTE positions cannot be filled fast enough due to the lack of instructors. Lately, much attention has been given to teacher recruitment issues, however, a variety of research studies show that the underlying problem is not the lack of teachers entering this field; instead it is the lack of teachers staying in the field. Much of the reason for this could be that CTE teachers most
