Career Technical Special Populations Grant Project

The Career and Technical Special Populations Training and Resource Education Center (CTSP Center) is a collaborative effort between the Family Development and Resource Management (FDRM) unit of Texas AgriLife Extension Service and the Texas Education Agency (TEA). The CTSP Center received a one-year grant from TEA to provide CTE teachers and other educators with access to resources for improving their knowledge regarding the education of students with special needs enrolled in CTE programs.

CTSP Center’s Role

The primary role of the CTSP Center is to help CTE, general education, and special education teachers, educators, paraprofessionals, administrators, and parents who are concerned with serving students with special needs in Texas. The CTSP Center disseminates resources such as books, videos, curriculum guides, multimedia learning modules, and educational opportunities to the target groups. The CTSP Center staff answers questions or solicits the responses of external experts regarding several critical issues related to serving students with special needs.

The current funding from TEA envisioned the center as a special populations clearing house. One of the main requirements of the grant for the year 2007-2008 was to create multimedia training modules and support materials addressing principles and strategies of accommodating a broad range of special population student learning needs in CTE.

This website, training manual, toolbox and this website are the resulting products. This is third in a series of learning modules showcasing best practices for career and technical education teachers, counselors, educators and parents concerned with serving students with special needs. The modules is developed by the Career and Technical Special Populations Training and Education Resource Center (CTSP Center) in cooperation with Texas AgriLife Extension Service and an expert consultant from Texas A&M University. We hope that our audiences find that the information enhances the services that they provide to their students with special needs.

Module Description: The "Best Practices: CTE Teacher's Role In Transition ARD Meetings" module details the roles and responsibilities of participants in ARD meetings. Using an example of a mock ARD meeting, best practices that contribute to the success of transition ARD meetings are highlighted. Particular emphasis is placed on the role of CTE teachers in the ARD process. The content is supplemented by a feature on career clusters. Additional resources, references and parent resources are provided.

Last updated: 12 August, 2008

The CTSP Center is a Texas Education Agency (TEA) grant-funded project. Our mission is to provide access to career and technology and special education-related multimedia information (books, curriculum materials, videos, online courses) to teachers, parents and education professionals throughout Texas and nationally.

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Disclaimer - The CTSP Center web-site is maintained by Lakshmi Mahadevan. The views and opinions expressed are solely those of our staff and contributors who have been asked to participate. They are not attributable to the Texas Education Agency or any of the agency's staff. For questions or concerns please email lmahadevan@ag.tamu.edu.