CTE Philosophy

CTE adheres to the following principles and assumptions when planning an online course:

• Develop engaging learning opportunities.
  
  
• Utilize a variety of teaching, learning and assessment pieces.
  
  
• Model what you teach.
  
  
• Proven instructional practices are imbedded in an online environment.
  
  
• Incorporate meaningful assignments with rigor and authentic products that have real professional applications.
  
  
• Employ multiple learning/teaching strategies to accommodate diverse learners.
  
  
• Create a structured cycle of instruction with flexibility to support freedom.
  
  
• All courses are learner centered.
  
  
• Responsibility is upon the instructor and the students.
  
  
• Actual facilitator instruction must happen, not just the push of content.
  
  
• Content delivery must be appropriate to the learning activity.
  
  
• The learning activities must be relevant to the objectives.
  
  
• Multiple forms of varied assessment must be in place on a weekly basis.
  
  
• Assessment and assignments are cumulative in nature, as each week leads to the performance assessment.
  
  
• Online learning is flexible and dynamic in nature, similar to in face-to-face instruction.
  
  
• Teaming and community building are critical to an online environment. *
  
  
• A balance between whole group, team, and individual assignments and activities exists.*

* Denotes that these principles refer to Fully Facilitated Courses