Schools are required to use the Indiana State Board of Education approved course titles for Career and Technical Educaiton Business and Information Technology. The course titles were approved in May 2005 for use beginning with the 2006-2007 school year. Schools are strongly encouraged to review the CTE Business and Information Technology course descriptions, content standards, and performance expectations as they develop and update curriculum. Currently, some course standards are being revised as well as the format. The new revised format will have a November 2007 revision date.

In addition to the content standards and performance expectations that are posted on the web, a grid has been developed for each course that contains the following:

• Content Standards
• Performance Expectations
• Instructional Strategies
• Assessment Strategies
• Supplementary Resources

This document provides more extensive instruction and helpful hints that will benefit the instructor.  It also shows in more detail how the Academic Standards for Language Arts, Math, and Social Studies are integrated into each course through instructional strategies and assessment strategies.  This document is not available on the web but a CD is distributed each year at the November Business and Marketing Conference. The CD also includes 450+ projects that may be used for various CTE Business and Information Technology and Co-Operative Education classes. Contact Barb Beadle for more information.

If you have questions regarding CTE BIT courses, contact Barbara Beadle, Business, Marketing, Information Technology, and Cooperative Education Program Specialist, at (317) 232-9179, (317) 232-9121-fax, or email at bbeadle@doe.in.gov.

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Introduction To CTE Business and Information Technology (Vocational)