CareerTech Glossary

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T&I: Trade and Industrial Education.
T.E.A.C.H.: Teacher Education and Compensation Helps, by the Early Childhood Association of Oklahoma.
TAA: Trade Adjustment Assistance.
TABE: Test of Adult Basic Education.
TC: Technology Center.
TCTW: Technology Centers That Work
TDD: Telecommunication Device for the Deaf.
TE: See Technology Education
TGI: Tribal Government Institute.
TIP: Training for Industry Programs.
Targeted Training: Targeted training experiences such as workshops, seminars, short courses, etc. that develop a student’s specific competencies.
Teacher Certification Program: A program designed to prepare students to meet the requirements for certification as teachers.
Teacher Internship: Opportunities for academic teachers to spend time within an industry to determine how their subject area is integrated into the employment setting.
Teacher Salary Supplement: The reimbursement to comprehensive schools from the ODCTE to augment the salary of CTE teachers.
Teachers-as-Advisors (TAA): Program that provides educational and career planning with parental involvement for all students by matching student groups with a teacher advisor for a certain period of time.
Teaching Position: A teaching position can only be filled by one teacher at any given time. A teaching position can teach at only one school. A school can have multiple teaching positions and can administer multiple course offerings. A course offering can only be administered by one teaching position.
Tech Prep (TP): A dynamic educational reform movement that involves partnerships, teaching and learning processes, and seamless curriculum structures that lead to an associate or bachelors degree or a certificate in a specific career field and to high-skill, high-wage employment or to further education.
TechConnect: Foundation programs designed to transition ninth and tenth grade students to the next level of career development. The program provides foundational competency experiences by focusing on integration of rigorous academics, all aspects of the industry, employability and technical skills.
TechConnect Plus: Career specific programs designed for 11th and 12th grade students in comprehensive high schools to more effectively build on the experiences at the 9th and 10th grade level through more rigorous career and technology content and focused experiences in technical/trade content areas.
TechEd: Technology Education.
Technical Advisory Board: Technical Advisory Board
Technical Assistance: Services provided by the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education to CareerTech programs to ensure compliance with standards and state and federal regulations and to assure the quality of the programs.
Technology Center Services (TCS): The division of the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education that serves as the liaison between technology center administrators and the Department.
Technology Center Services Division: The division of the ODCTE that serves as the liaison between the technology centers and the department.
Technology Education: The occupational division of the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education that supports programs provided in comprehensive schools in Grades 6-10 that provide hands-on career exploration experiences and improve technological literacy.
Technology Education Division (TechEd): The educational division of the ODCTE that administers programs provided in comprehensive schools in Grades 5-10 that provide hands-on career exploration experiences and improve technological literacy.
Technology Education Programs: Programs that provide students the opportunities to explore career options, identify educational options to pursue their interests in life, and examine scientific ideas as they are applied to industry.
Technology Learning Activity (TLA): Curriculum modules used in Technology Education classrooms.
Technology Student Association (TSA): The Career and Technology Student Organization for students enrolled in Technology Education.
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF): A federal block grant created by the passage of the Personal Responsibility Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, designed to assist eligible families with a dependent child that meet the income/resource standards set out in the state TANF plan.

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by Lynn Hughes — last modified 2008-02-21 21:31