Education Specialist Career & TEchnical Education

This section of my e-Portfolio contains an electronic collection of items and evidence that shows my journey in the study of career and technical education and is a combination of process and product in that pursuit. 

The University of Wisconsin-Stout's Education Specialist Degree in Career and Technical Education program is an advanced degree that is a minimum of 36 semester hours beyond a master’s degree. I completed this program in December 2014. 

The Education Specialist Degree in Career and Technical Education at UW-Stout is intended to provide leaders for secondary and post-secondary schools, and in business and industry by providing them with further expertise in teaching, mentoring, coordination, training, and supervision (UW-Stout Graduate Bulletin, 2013).

There is considerable flexibility in this program with regard to selectives (elective subjects within CTE), and they may be taken as needed to fulfill the individual goals and objectives of the student. The following are the courses chosen for my program:

• CTE 502 Principles of Career and Technical Education (Fall 2013)
• EDUC 646 Using Games for Learning and Assessment (Fall 2013)
• TRHRD 560 Training Systems in Business and Industry (Fall 2013)
• CTE 638 Course Construction (Spring 2014)
• CTE 708 Issues in Career and Technical Education (Spring 2014)
• EDPSY 850 Psychology of Development (Spring 2014)
• CTE 746 Seminar (Summer 2014)
• EDUC 816 Instrumentation for Research (Summer 2014)
• CTE 725 Quality Improvement in Education (Fall 2014)
• CTE 895 Field Study in Career and Technical Education (Fall 2014)

The following is coursework I had previously completed that was applied to my Ed.S. program:

• EDUC 764 E-Learning Practicum, (University of Wisconsin-Stout, 2013)
• EDUC 765 Trends and Issues in Instructional Design, (University of Wisconsin-Stout, 2011)
• EDUC 766 Instructional Strategies and Assessment Methods, (University of Wisconsin-Stout, 2011)
• EDUC 767 Designing Computer-Based Training (CBT), (University of Wisconsin-Stout, 2011)
• EDUC 768 Project Management for Instructional Development, University of Wisconsin-Stout (2011)

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