As the Maryland Correctional Training Academy in Woodstock begins the new year, we would like to offer some insight into how the academy program works. All full time instructors are computer literate. It is estimated that the combined experience of all Academy instructors is 200 years.
All instructors teach from standardized lesson plans which are updated and rewritten as required.
Instructors use audiovisual teaching aids available in the Academy library collection or through the Criminal Justice Resource Center. Overall, there are eight block tests. Students must demonstrate through test scores that they have mastered all of the learning objectives. They are given re-rest opportunities for the first two failures. Tests are graded by the Academy's Registrar using ScanTron technology.