Arizona Tech Prep is dedicated to serving its Career and Technical Education (CTE) instructors
and students. To that end it has developed this web site to ensure that tools and resources
are available to deliver quality instruction and develop articulated programs between secondary
and post-secondary institutions.
Here's what you'll find on the menu above:
CTE Programs - provides standards and measurement criteria, and related resources
for Arizona's Career and Technical Education programs. It should be noted that CTE programs
in Arizona are undergoing extensive changes to meet the challenges of the workplace.
About Tech Prep - provides information about the Tech Prep initiative in Arizona including history, student benefits and the elements of an articulated program.
Academic Standards - links to ADE's web site which lists the academic
skills which every Arizona student is expected to know and be able to perform at designated grade levels.
CTE students are measured each year against these standards as part of the state's Performance
Measures for CTE Programs.
Career Clusters - describes the sixteen Career Clusters from the official website for the States'
Career Clusters Initiative (SCCI).
Directory - lists all of Arizona's Tech Prep Directors,
phone/fax numbers, email and other pertinent information.
Arizona's CTE Web - this lnks to the CTE page of the Arizona Department of
Education's official web site.
