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​ =**Literacy and CTE **= ====Region 9 is committed to improve reading and writing skills among Career and Technical Education (CTE) students by emphasizing literacy skills throughout their programs’ curriculum and school culture. For the school year 2009-2010, Region 9 hired two English instructors to work with the CTE instructors and CTE students to integrate English into all Region 9 programs. The goal of the program is to better prepare our students to be successful in their future careers, post‑secondary educational goals, and the current program that students are enrolled in at Region 9, all of which require a high level of literacy. The careers that will be available to our students in the 21st Century **will require that workers have strong literacy skills** **.**  ====

**✰Only 35 percent of 12th graders are considered proficient in reading and can demonstrate overall understanding of texts, make inferences, draw conclusions and make connections to previous experiences. 1 **

====In Maine, the 27 CTE secondary schools wanted to better integrate core and CTE content, enhance coordination with partner sending schools, and strengthen the ability of CTE students to complete the reading and writing required in rigouous CTE courses. The sponsors of the program are the Maine Department of Education, Maine Administrators of Career and Technical Education, and the 27 Maine CTE schools. Since this program launched in school year 2005-06, five Region 9 instructors participated in these workshops.   ====

**✰  ** **CTE programs provide students opportunities to extend their literacy skills through exercises involoving the in-depth integration of both reading and writing, along with critical thinking and employability skills like oral communication, leadership, and teamwork. 2 **

The purpose of this Wiki is to explore techniques used by CTE instructors to build students' literacy skills.
**✰Due to their unique combination of rigor and relevance, CTE courses can motivate students who are otherwise unengaged in the education process to read, write, and apply critical thinking skills in authentic situations. 3 **

**References:** **1.** Association for Career and Technical Education. (2009). //CTE's Role in Adolescent Literacy.// Alexandria: Association for Career and Technical Education. **2.** A ssociation for Career and Technical Education. (2009). //CTE's Role in Adolescent Literacy.// Alexandria: Association for Career and Technical Education.
 * 3.** Association for Career and Technical Education. (2009). //CTE's Role in Adolescent Literacy.// Alexandria: Association for Career and Technical Education.

==External Link: CTE's Role in Adolescent Literacy Issue Brief==

**Last updated: December, 2009**