Correctional Services
In Correctional Services, students prepare for certification required for employment as a municipal, county, state, or federal correctional officer. Students will learn the role and responsibilities of a county or municipal correctional officer; discuss relevant rules, regulations, and laws of municipal, county, state, or federal facilities; and discuss defensive tactics, restraint techniques, and first aid procedures as used in the municipal, county, state, or federal correctional setting. Students will analyze rehabilitation and alternatives to institutionalization for inmates.
This binder does not contain all lesson plans for this course. This content can be used with any textbook or instructional materials. If locally adapted, make sure all TEKS are covered.
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Scope and Sequence
Scope and Sequence: Correctional Services
CTE TEKS - Implemented 2017-2018, adopted in 2015
Correctional Services course scope and sequence within the Law, Public Safety, Corrections, and Security Career Cluster® summarizes the content to be taught, and one possible order for teaching the units of instruction. A brief description of each unit and the corresponding TEKS are included. This scope and sequence may be adapted or adopted by the local education agency.
View ResourceUnit 1: Professional Standards and Employability Skills
Lesson Plan: Employee Rules of Conduct
This lesson introduces students to the rules of conduct for employees in correctional facilities. Students will have the opportunity to assess and analyze various scenarios to determine the proper conduct in the given situation.
View ResourceUnit 1: Professional Standards and Employability Skills
Lesson Plan: Professionalism and Ethics in Corrections
Regardless of the field, each organization has some standards by which it operates and expects its employees to follow. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) is no different. Professionalism and ethics play a key role in an employee’s success within the agency. Without them, you may find yourself “behind closed bars.”
View ResourceUnit 1: Professional Standards and Employability Skills
Lesson Plan: Correctional Services - Professional Communication
In this lesson, students will learn and practice verbal communication skills necessary for municipal, county, state, or federal correctional officers.
View ResourceUnit 1: Professional Standards and Employability Skills
Lesson Plan: History of Crime and Correction
This lesson introduces students to the history of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). Knowing the history is important for establishing where the system began, and the struggles it has overcome to become the agency it is today.
View ResourceUnit 1: Professional Standards and Employability Skills
Review the scope and sequence document. One or more lesson plans are currently not available.
One or more lesson plans are currently not available. Review the scope and sequence document, TEKS, and available lesson plans, to determine which additional lesson plans to locally develop.
You can download the optional blank lesson plan template provided here, to locally develop a new lesson plan, consistent with the others provided in the Texas CTE Resource Center.
If after developing a new lesson plan, you would like the TEA to consider adding it to the resource library for colleague teachers to also use in the future, attach the lesson plan and any supplemental instructional materials through the form here, for consideration. If published, we will attribute the materials to you.
View ResourceUnit 2: The History of Correctional Services
Lesson Plan: History of Crime and Correction
This lesson introduces students to the history of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). Knowing the history is important for establishing where the system began, and the struggles it has overcome to become the agency it is today.
View ResourceUnit 2: The History of Correctional Services
Lesson Plan: The Organization of Correctional Systems
In this lesson, students examine the history of corrections in Texas and the United States, explore the impact of the United States legal system on the correctional system and differentiate between the civil and criminal justice systems and explain how change impacts correctional services.
View ResourceUnit 2: The History of Correctional Services
Lesson Plan: Current Issues in Corrections
In this lesson, students will understand the current issues in Correctional Facilities so they can become effective correctional officers.
View ResourceUnit 2: The History of Correctional Services
Review the scope and sequence document. One or more lesson plans are currently not available.
One or more lesson plans are currently not available. Review the scope and sequence document, TEKS, and available lesson plans, to determine which additional lesson plans to locally develop.
You can download the optional blank lesson plan template provided here, to locally develop a new lesson plan, consistent with the others provided in the Texas CTE Resource Center.
If after developing a new lesson plan, you would like the TEA to consider adding it to the resource library for colleague teachers to also use in the future, attach the lesson plan and any supplemental instructional materials through the form here, for consideration. If published, we will attribute the materials to you.
View ResourceUnit 3: Health and Safety
Lesson Plan: CPR in Correctional Facilities
In this lesson, students will learn cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in a correctional facility, which is a major first aid safety procedure.
View ResourceUnit 3: Health and Safety
Lesson Plan: Infection Control in Correctional Facilities
In this lesson, students will learn about various infections and prevention measures and treatments. Students will be expected to identify various infections based on the symptoms in different scenarios.
View ResourceUnit 3: Health and Safety
Lesson Plan: The Organization of Correctional Systems
In this lesson, students examine the history of corrections in Texas and the United States, explore the impact of the United States legal system on the correctional system and differentiate between the civil and criminal justice systems and explain how change impacts correctional services.
View ResourceUnit 3: Health and Safety
Lesson Plan: Hazardous Materials
This lesson, provides students the opportunity to learn about the special requirements for handling hazardous materials to maintain a safe working environment.
View ResourceUnit 3: Health and Safety
Lesson Plan: Employee Rules of Conduct
This lesson introduces students to the rules of conduct for employees in correctional facilities. Students will have the opportunity to assess and analyze various scenarios to determine the proper conduct in the given situation.
View ResourceUnit 4: Constitutional Laws and Laws of Correctional Systems
Lesson Plan: Constitutional Law
In this lesson, students focus on constitutional law to examine protocols outlined by the 14th Amendment, summarize 5th Amendment rights, and examine trial, jury and due process rights.
View ResourceUnit 4: Constitutional Laws and Laws of Correctional Systems
Lesson Plan: Current Issues in Corrections
In this lesson, students will understand the current issues in Correctional Facilities so they can become effective correctional officers.
View ResourceUnit 4: Constitutional Laws and Laws of Correctional Systems
Lesson Plan: Interrogation
This lesson introduces students to the interrogation procedures. For law enforcement agents in all fields (police, court, and corrections) it is important to understand the rights of the prisoners and how to conduct interrogations while protecting those rights.
View ResourceUnit 4: Constitutional Laws and Laws of Correctional Systems
Lesson Plan: Correctional Services - Civil and Criminal Justice Systems
In this lesson, students will explore the differences between the criminal and civil justice systems and how changes in those systems impact the correctional system.
View ResourceUnit 5: Individuals with Disabilities
Lesson Plan: Correctional Services - Accommodating the Disabled
In this lesson, students will participate in a role-playing activity in which they will assume the role of a corrections officer dealing with a disabled patient.
View ResourceUnit 5: Individuals with Disabilities
Review the scope and sequence document. One or more lesson plans are currently not available.
One or more lesson plans are currently not available. Review the scope and sequence document, TEKS, and available lesson plans, to determine which additional lesson plans to locally develop.
You can download the optional blank lesson plan template provided here, to locally develop a new lesson plan, consistent with the others provided in the Texas CTE Resource Center.
If after developing a new lesson plan, you would like the TEA to consider adding it to the resource library for colleague teachers to also use in the future, attach the lesson plan and any supplemental instructional materials through the form here, for consideration. If published, we will attribute the materials to you.
View ResourceUnit 6: Conflict Resolution and Responsibilities in Correctional Environments
Lesson Plan: Future Issues in Corrections Lesson Documents
Correctional administrators face challenges involving staff, use of technology, and health care costs. These challenges have implications for the future of corrections. It is essential that correctional officers understand these issues and the implications. In this lesson, students will discuss these future issues and implications. Students will also complete an activity in which they will research and develop a recruitment campaign for employees in a local correctional services operation.
View ResourceUnit 6: Conflict Resolution and Responsibilities in Correctional Environments
Review the scope and sequence document. One or more lesson plans are currently not available.
One or more lesson plans are currently not available. Review the scope and sequence document, TEKS, and available lesson plans, to determine which additional lesson plans to locally develop.
You can download the optional blank lesson plan template provided here, to locally develop a new lesson plan, consistent with the others provided in the Texas CTE Resource Center.
If after developing a new lesson plan, you would like the TEA to consider adding it to the resource library for colleague teachers to also use in the future, attach the lesson plan and any supplemental instructional materials through the form here, for consideration. If published, we will attribute the materials to you.
View ResourceUnit 7: Managing Operations and Hostile Situations
Lesson Plan: Correctional Policy - Security and Control
In this lesson, students will analyze the safety procedures that take place in various tasks at a correctional facility including cell and inmate searches.
View ResourceUnit 7: Managing Operations and Hostile Situations
Lesson Plan: Self Defense Pressure Points
In this lesson, students will explore the concept of self defense using pressure points. Students will have the opportunity to practice these methods with teacher's supervision.
View ResourceUnit 7: Managing Operations and Hostile Situations
Lesson Plan: Future Issues in Corrections Lesson Documents
Correctional administrators face challenges involving staff, use of technology, and health care costs. These challenges have implications for the future of corrections. It is essential that correctional officers understand these issues and the implications. In this lesson, students will discuss these future issues and implications. Students will also complete an activity in which they will research and develop a recruitment campaign for employees in a local correctional services operation.
View ResourceUnit 7: Managing Operations and Hostile Situations
Lesson Plan: Emergency Plans and Procedures in a Correctional Facility
In this lesson, students will be introduced to the various components of prison emergency plans and procedures. They will have the opportunity to create a floor plan for a prison and determine an emergency plan for that floor plan for various scenarios.
View ResourceUnit 7: Managing Operations and Hostile Situations
Lesson Plan: Daily Operations of Correctional Facilities
In this lesson, students will learn about the daily operations of a correctional facility through independent projects, group presentations, and discussions.
View ResourceUnit 8: Human Behavior and Relations
Lesson plans are currently not available. Review the scope and sequence document and TEKS.
Lesson plans are currently not available. Review the scope and sequence document, TEKS, and available lesson plans, to determine which additional lesson plans to locally develop.
You can download the optional blank lesson plan template provided here, to locally develop a new lesson plan, consistent with the others provided in the Texas CTE Resource Center.
If after developing a new lesson plan, you would like the TEA to consider adding it to the resource library for colleague teachers to also use in the future, attach the lesson plan and any supplemental instructional materials through the form here, for consideration. If published, we will attribute the materials to you.
View ResourceUnit 9: Protocols, Procedures, and Security
Lesson plans are currently not available. Review the scope and sequence document and TEKS.
Lesson plans are currently not available. Review the scope and sequence document, TEKS, and available lesson plans, to determine which additional lesson plans to locally develop.
You can download the optional blank lesson plan template provided here, to locally develop a new lesson plan, consistent with the others provided in the Texas CTE Resource Center.
If after developing a new lesson plan, you would like the TEA to consider adding it to the resource library for colleague teachers to also use in the future, attach the lesson plan and any supplemental instructional materials through the form here, for consideration. If published, we will attribute the materials to you.
View ResourceUnit 10: Prisoner Intake and Courtroom Procedures
Lesson plans are currently not available. Review the scope and sequence document and TEKS.
Lesson plans are currently not available. Review the scope and sequence document, TEKS, and available lesson plans, to determine which additional lesson plans to locally develop.
You can download the optional blank lesson plan template provided here, to locally develop a new lesson plan, consistent with the others provided in the Texas CTE Resource Center.
If after developing a new lesson plan, you would like the TEA to consider adding it to the resource library for colleague teachers to also use in the future, attach the lesson plan and any supplemental instructional materials through the form here, for consideration. If published, we will attribute the materials to you.
View ResourceUnit 11: Emergency Situations
Lesson plans are currently not available. Review the scope and sequence document and TEKS.
Lesson plans are currently not available. Review the scope and sequence document, TEKS, and available lesson plans, to determine which additional lesson plans to locally develop.
You can download the optional blank lesson plan template provided here, to locally develop a new lesson plan, consistent with the others provided in the Texas CTE Resource Center.
If after developing a new lesson plan, you would like the TEA to consider adding it to the resource library for colleague teachers to also use in the future, attach the lesson plan and any supplemental instructional materials through the form here, for consideration. If published, we will attribute the materials to you.
View ResourceUnit 12: Force and Self-Defense
Lesson plans are currently not available. Review the scope and sequence document and TEKS.
Lesson plans are currently not available. Review the scope and sequence document, TEKS, and available lesson plans, to determine which additional lesson plans to locally develop.
You can download the optional blank lesson plan template provided here, to locally develop a new lesson plan, consistent with the others provided in the Texas CTE Resource Center.
If after developing a new lesson plan, you would like the TEA to consider adding it to the resource library for colleague teachers to also use in the future, attach the lesson plan and any supplemental instructional materials through the form here, for consideration. If published, we will attribute the materials to you.
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