Practical LivingVocational Career Studies

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Practical Living/Vocational Career Studies
Career and Technical Education Programs
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Practical Living

• Health Education
• Personal Wellness
• Nutrition
• Safety
• Physical Education
• Psychomotor Skills
• Lifetime Physical Wellness
• Consumerism
• Consumer Decisions
• Financial Literacy

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Vocational/Career Studies

• Career Awareness, Exploration and Planning
• Employability Skills
• Communication/Technology

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Career and Technical Education

• Agricultural Education has 8 Major/Career
  Pathways
• Agribiotechnology
• Agribusiness
• Agricultural Education, Communication and
  Leadership
• Agricultural Power, Structural and Technical
  Systems
• Animal Science Systems
• Environmental Science Natural Resources Systems
• Food Science Processing Systems
• Horticulture Plant Science Systems

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AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION
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AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION
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AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION
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Business Education

• Operate as the center for industry standard
  desktop and communication technology in schools
• Provide a critical link in school to employment
  or postsecondary education
• Develop stronger relationships with the business
  community in terms of mutual advocacy,
  cooperative field experiences, employment
  placement, and support for FBLA experiences
• represent a necessary component in the education
  of all students
• Require and promote critical thinking and problem
  solving
• Offer a flexible curriculum based on standards
  that adapts to change
• Integrate academic skills into the business
  education curriculum in order to insure that
  students develop excellent written verbal
  communications skills, computational skills, and
  scientific problem-solving skills.

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Career Majors

• 11 Career Majors in Business Education
• Accounting
• Admisinstrative Support
• Business Management
• Business Multimedia
• Business Technology
• Data Base Management
• Finance
• Information Processing
• Legal Office
• Medical Office
• Business/Marketing Education

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Business Education
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Business Education
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Business Education
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Health Science Program

• Preparation into the health care industry

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Family and Consumer Sciences

• The mission is to prepare students for family
  life, work life and careers in Family and
  Consumer Sciences by providing opportunities to
  develop the knowledge, skills, attitudes and
  behavior needed for
• Career Majors
• Family and Consumer Sciences Education
• Child Development
• Culinary and Food Services
• Fashion and Interior Design
• Hospitality Services and Consumer and Family
  Management

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Family and Consumer Sciences
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Family and Consumer Sciences
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Family and Consumer Sciences
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Industrial Education

• Communication
• Construction
• Manufacturing
• Transportation

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Industrial Education
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Industrial Education
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Industrial Education
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Information Technology

• Information Technology (IT) is the study, design,
  development, implementation, support or
  management of computer-based information systems,
  particularly software application and computer
  hardware.
• 4 Career Majors
• Networking
• Computer Maintenance and Support Services
• Web Design
• Programming

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Information Technology
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Pathways to Careers

• Provides a continuum of career education
  experiences.
• Career choices in middle schools offer a broad
  range of career opportunities
• Career Options and Career Networking offer
  opportunities to develop job finding and keeping
  skills and focus on orientation and exploration
  in the fourteen career clusters.

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Continuum for Pathway to Careers Program
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Marketing Education

• Designed to prepare students for postsecondary
  education and careers in marketing, management
  and entrepreneurship. Students develop knowledge
  and skills in the business administration core
  standards(business law, communication, economics,
  emotional intelligence, financial analyst, human
  resource management, information management,
  operations, professional development strategic
  management) the marketing core standards
  (distribution, marketing information management,
  pricing, product/service management, promotion,
  selling).

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Marketing Education

• Career Majors
• Advertising
• E-Commerce
• Fashion Marketing
• Financial Services
• Hospitality, Travel Tourism Recreation
• Management/Entrepreneurship
• Marketing
• Marketing Education
• Retailing Wholesaling
• Sports Marketing

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Standards Based Curriculum

• The curriculum is composed of standards based
  competencies.

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Marketing Education
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Marketing Education
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Marketing Education
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Technology Education

• This content is organized into a series of
  courses that allow the technology student to
  explore and discover the many facets of
  technology and how it shapes our society.
• Technology Education program should provice
  opportunities to

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Technology Education

• Apply creative problem-solving, critical
  thinking, teamwork, leadership, acceptance of
  personal responsibility and other skills using a
  variety of resources (including information,
  tools, and materials) to identify/define/solve
  problems.
• Design, build, test, and modify products and
  solutions to problems
• Þ Develop a conceptual understanding of
  technological contexts (e.g., medical,
  agricultural, communication, transportation,
  power and energy, manufacturing, and
  construction) and the interrelationship between
  the resource/input, process, output, and feedback
  elements of these systems.
• Þ Use contemporary technologies to
  communicate, process, manipulate, collect, and
  apply information to solve technical problems.
• Þ Integrate and apply concepts from Kentucky
  Core Content to contemporary technology.
• Þ Develop competencies in the safe and
  efficient use of tools, machines, materials, and
  processes.
• Þ Identify opportunities, characteristics, and
  preparation requirements for current and emerging
  technological occupations.
• Þ Explore entrepreneurship and its place within
  the free enterprise system as a means to becoming
  a self-sufficient individual.

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Technology Education

• Understand and appreciate both the importance and
  the dynamic nature of technology.
• Prepare for the challenges of a dynamic world
  through gaining skills in technological literacy,
  leadership, and problem solving, resulting in
  personal growth and opportunity.

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Recommended Courses
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Recommended Courses
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Recommended Courses
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Career Majors
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Program of Studies Links

• Career and Technical Education
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• Practical Living/ Vocational Career Studies
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