Career Technical Education

Preparing Students for College and CareersPresented by Liz Bowman, Jeannine Huffman, and Jennifer

Pettitt

Multiple Pathways Lab I

June 23, 2009

Have you heard about Weber

Tech…?

Dude, they have a

Dodge Viper in the auto shop…

That is so cool... …do they only

have an Automotive Academy?

Look.. There’s Mrs.Huffman

and Mrs.Pettitt at

Weber…!

Automotive Academy

Health Academy

Technology Academy

Gaming/Green Tech Academy

When I obtain mastery in basic and intermediate automotive skills at Weber and get certification in ASE and NATEF. I can get an internship to work with Ford or Honda and many others…

I get to learn First Aid, anatomy, health and safety topics, assess vital signs, intern in a medical office and be a CNA, or Certified Nurse Assistant.

Virtual Enterprise is a simulated business run by students…!

You get to design games and all the graphic artwork for it…… but what is the Green Academy about…?

Hugging trees…?

Wow!

…what will I find at Weber Tech? …a Career High School with a small

learning community dedicated to academic and career preparation with an

emphasis on good citizenship. www.weberinstitute.org/

QUIET…!You can’t go to a Career

Academy High School because you GOOF OFF all the time… …GET back to memorizing your

math facts…!

Mr. Quigley, That’s boring…! I want more hands on

projects with relevance and I heard Weber is starting a new Gaming Academy…

…that’s Jonathan and Martha…

…2009 Weber graduates on their way

to the Skills USA Competition.. Don’t they

look professional…?

Dude……are those

the teachers or the

students?

Mr. Quigley… I’ve been thinking a lot about high school...

…I want to graduate but I am scared…

…I don’t know how well I’ll do there… …sometimes I just want to give up and quit…

but when I heard about Weber and other schools and all the cool projects they get to do…

…I feel like there they will care about me… and I’ll learn things I am interested in and math will make

sense…

Class… You can do it… I never thought I’d say this…

you CAN get all the way through high school and

beyond…

Mr. Quigley……You have always been an awesome

teacher even if you do shout a lot…

…Visualize a MENTAL PICTURE of you with your goal accomplished…

…be PERSISTENT on your journey to your goal.

Never give up! NEVER even think of giving up…!

…When you hit a block wall take a little break…

Yes……I can do

it...!

…everything from Law Enforcement… to

Vocational Nursing… to Baking and Pastry. They also have Agriculture, Communications, Fire

Science, Humanities, Office Management, Culinary Arts… they have a cool

Senior Project on-line too…

Yeah… At Middle College High School

middlecollege.lodiusd.net you can earn your high school diploma and an

Associates Degree at the same time..

…They’ve got 15 A.A. Degrees and 21 A.S.

Degrees...

Sure, but what if am not into that pathway…?

I want to go to high school and college

at the same…

…I want to earn dual credits so that

once I graduate I can get started in a

job right away…

YOU THREE HAVE BEEN DOING A LOT OF TALKING…! …but the more I think about it you

do really well in hands-on projects and you always like to participate in class

assignments… a school with lots of hands on projects would be great for you… here are some I have heard of that you could go to

when you finish 8th grade…

…The new John C. Kimball High in Tracy has a Career Pathways Program in Architecture, Construction &

Interior Design, Health Sciences, Mass Communication…

www.tracy.k12.ca.us/kimballhighschool.htmThey are doing www.edutopia.org which is a program

that says you can develop technical skills while learning… sometimes you even get to go work with

famous companies…

…it was started by the Star Wars guy George Lucas.

Dude… Humphreys College www. humphreys.edu./

has a charter high school called Institute of Business and you can get

a two year Associates degree…

…then if you want… get your four year Bachelors… and later a master degree all at the same college… you

can even get your law degree…

…they have majors in Accounting, Business, Court Reporting, Early Childhood Education, and Liberal

Studies…

Dude…you even get to enter your

projects into competitions and earn awards…

Yeah, but what skills do I need

now to get into a career high

school like that?

…it means you can choose to learn about a

career and still be ready for college if you

want…

…and what is a pathway

anyways…?

…you need to know how to get a long with others in teams…

how to cooperate

I loved what I saw at Weber Tech and want to get a head start to

pick a career……I don’t want to wait until high

school… I want to start my portfolio now… I have so many ideas… I’m going online as soon

as I get home…

… I want to go to bizKID$ and start a virtual business like the Weber students do in Virtual

Enterprise…http://www.bizkids.org/

What are some of the other High

School Pathways nearby?

Here are some I found…

SUSD Early College Academy

Merlot Institute of Environmental Technology

International Baccalaureate Academy at Franklin High School

Stagg High - Health Career Academy and Journalism Academy

Venture Academy

You can take a quiz to see what you like to do at… Career Technical

Education (CTE) at Santa Clara Co. Office of Education