Welcome to Ohio College Tech Prep!!

Ohio College Tech Prep prepares students for high skill, high demand technical careers in a competitive global economy. Rigorous educational pathways emphasize math, science and technology and lead to postsecondary education. Educators, employers and communities collaborate to develop and deliver Tech Prep opportunities to all Ohio Students.

Registration Open for Third Annual Economic-Education Summit

Six industry sectors determined to be highly critical to the state’s economic success will be the focus of the Ohio Economic-Education Summit III on Feb. 22-24, 2010, at the Hyatt Regency, Columbus. As determined by a planning team led by the Ohio Department of Education’s Office of CTE, the six sectors are: Advanced Energy, Advanced Materials, Aerospace and Aviation, Automotive, Bioscience/biomedical and Food Sciences.

Registration opened on Dec. 3. The Ohio Association for Career and Technical Education is handling registration at www.ohioacte.org/Summit.html.

ODE Web: New Items This Month

Nearly 40 pieces of content were added or updated during November. Items in the list below are believed to be of most interest to CTE educators. To access, use the underlined “click” option, or go to www.education.ohio.gov and enter the italicized text in the search box.

• Document explaining how Tech Prep students are “counted” for Perkins accountability
• FY2011 Workforce Development CTE-26, Program of Study and POS Assurances as part of CTE Forms