ILCTE Best Practice for Successfully Recruiting and Growing CTE Enrollment Survey

Illinois Career and Technical Education Innovative Curriculum Resources Project (ILCTE)

Illinois State University Department of Technology 215 Turner Hall Normal, IL 61790-5100

309-438-7862 www.ilcte.org

CTE Best Practices for Successfully Recruiting and Growing CTE Enrollment

As part of the objectives during the 2020-2021 school year (Fiscal Year 2021), the ILCTE Innovative Curriculum Resources Project developed the following objective: “ Collaboratively develop with Illinois teachers, CTE stakeholders, and ISBE principal consultants, best practices for successfully recruiting and growing CTE enrollment.” Further, ILCTE would develop strategies to recruit students into CTE courses based on teacher-suggested best practices coupled with research and data findings; posted on ILCTE website, shared through social media. To accomplish this objective, the ILCTE team developed a survey to gain input from Illinois CTE teachers in regard to successfully recruiting and growing CTE enrollment. As a CTE teacher, you are likely tasked with recruiting students into your program. Recruitment is a process of informing students (and parents) about what CTE courses are available at your school, the importance of CTE, etc. The Illinois Career and Technical Education Innovative Curriculum Resources Project (ILCTE) would like to gather data on how you accomplish recruiting in your CTE program, so best practices can be shared state-wide with other CTE teachers. We would like to ask you to please spend some time reflecting on recruitment by answering the questions in this survey because the findings may be beneficial for all CTE teachers. As you review the following items please think about your methods and share some of your techniques for successful recruitment. The survey began with the following statement:

The survey was distributed to the ILCTE listserv, assistance from the Illinois CTE Education for Employment Directors that were asked to disseminate the survey