Connect Educators & Students to CTE Resources

Career and technical education (CTE) teachers fill an essential role in schools and the community. By preparing students for practical and often high-demand careers across various industries, these educators are setting students on the path toward a successful future. Find reliable and up-to-date supplemental curricula to help CTE educators enhance instruction and increase engagement with these resources from Gale.

Explore CTE Resources for Students

Gale Presents: Imago

Provide video-based digital lessons in three critical areas: career readiness, soft skills, and social and emotional learning (SEL). Educators can use modules to prepare students for career and technical student organization (CTSO) competitions, with lessons on teamwork and body language.

Gale Presents: Peterson’s Test and Career Prep

Need resources to help students prepare for life after high school? Give students in-depth information on colleges and universities, help them practice for entrance exams, provide resumé-building tools, and help students identify suitable industries and occupations for their strengths and interests.

ChiltonLibrary

Provide access to factory-sourced service and automotive repair information from the original equipment manufacturers—perfect for automotive technology programs. Explore diagnostics, detailed schematics, technical service bulletins, Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) quizzes, and how-to videos.

Gale Health and Wellness

Connect students to authoritative, relevant medical resources with curated content on diseases, drugs, diagnostics and tests, treatments, and surgeries. In addition, millions of articles from medical journals and magazines, videos, audio, and images engage students and ensure deeper learning.

Gale eBooks

Collections of eBooks are curated by professional educators and subject matter experts to include content that supports test preparation, scholarship research, workplace readiness, and career cluster exploration. Users enjoy unlimited, simultaneous access anytime—with no downloads or holds. 

Gale OneFile

Give students access to periodicals and journals to support CTE education. Collections include agriculture, business, communications, criminal justice, culinary arts, entrepreneurship, environmental studies, home improvement, hospitality, nursing and allied health, sports medicine, and more.

Find CTE Educator Resources for Professional Development & Planning

Gale In Context: For Educators

Gale In Context: For Educators supports social development at the elementary, middle, and high school levels with age-appropriate content designed to teach essential life skills, such as critical thinking, problem-solving, and effective communication, to ensure that students are career and future ready. In addition, educators can utilize ready-made lesson plans that cover communications, engineering and technology, financial literacy, health, and life sciences.

Gale eBooks: Professional Learning

Provide on-demand professional learning with Gale eBooks. Gale eBooks: Professional Learning collections put the expert content your teachers need and want in one place and offer unlimited, simultaneous access for all educators. Additionally, this award-winning platform is designed to add new collections as they’re released, which allows schools to stay current with important trends in education and offer titles that fit growing needs.

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Gale In Context: For Educators CTE Tip Sheet

Use this guide to find lesson plans, reference articles, current industry news, and more in Gale In Context: For Educators to support your CTE curriculum.

Bring CTE to Life with Your Gale Resources

Watch this webinar to see how Gale resources can be used to supplement various CTE tracks. Plus, explore the tools and features available to improve student accessibility and learning.