Anexo 8. Estadística y análisis de las encuestas de satisfacción

Education

General Career and Technical Education Courses

080200 Career and Technical Education Internship I 2/360

080201 Career and Technical Education Internship II 2/360

This course is designed to provide career and technical education students an opportunity to apply learned skills in the workplace. Paid or non-paid internships are provided in the student’s related field of study. The student has the opportunity to explore a single potential career or a combination of careers they may be considering.

Emphasis will be placed on developing interpersonal skills, work ethics, relevant skills of the workplace, and an understanding of the selected career field of study. Oral and written communication skills are reinforced in this course as the student completes their workplace experience. Opportunities for application of clinical and leadership skills are provided by participation in an appropriate career and technical student organization through activities, conferences and skills competitions. For two credits to be granted, class time must meet the requirements in Bulletin 741, and additional work must be assigned and evaluated.

Prerequisite: Each program area would need to decide what courses should be required for admission to the internship. It is expected that each intern has basic skills in the program area of study. An example for the Health Occupations student would be to successfully complete: Introduction to Health Careers, and Medical Terminology or Health Science I, Allied Health Services I, Dental Assistant I, Nursing Assistant I. Acceptance into the internship should be based on an application process with a teacher and/or administrator recommendation. Good attendance and discipline records are required.

080400 Education for Careers (½ Credit) ½/90

080401 Education for Careers (1 Credit) 1/180

This course was designed to assist students with exploring careers and developing skills necessary to make meaningful decisions about their career choice. Students will be made aware that there are many factors to consider before selecting a suitable career. This course will assist the student in assessing their personal strengths and weaknesses as they relate to career decisions. This course will aid the student in developing strategies to make an effective transition from school to work. The student will develop skills in this course that are generic to all occupations such as properly preparing career documents needed to obtain employment. A major component of this course will be the development of an exit portfolio. The student will be able to recognize that career enhancements and career changes are common and that they need to be prepared with the proper tools, resources, and guidance to make informed decisions about their career choice throughout their lifetime. Students will have opportunities to meet career practitioners, visit worksites, conduct career research, participate in career shadowing and/or other short-term career experiences.

Prerequisite: None

080300 General Cooperative Education 3/540

This course is designed to provide students with part-time work experience in various occupations combined with classroom instruction in their perspective fields of study. Emphasis is placed on skill development in personal career management and human relations. Critical thinking skills and oral and written communication skills are reinforced in this course through the use of business application projects. Work-based learning strategies appropriate for this course are service learning, field trips, and job shadowing, internships and apprenticeships.

competition provide opportunities for application of instructional competencies.

Prerequisite: None

GLOSSARY

LOUISIANA CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS

RELATED DEFINITIONS

Articulation. Promotes a smooth transition from secondary to postsecondary education. It serves as a vehicle for high school students to earn postsecondary credit while enrolled in high school or upon entering postsecondary study.

Apprenticeship. Relationships between an employer and employee during which the worker, or apprentice, learns an occupation in a structured program sponsored jointly by employers and labor unions or operated by employers and employee associations.

Career Academy. A high school program in which a group of students are scheduled with the same core group of teachers for two, three, or four years. The curriculum organizes academic subjects around an industry or occupational theme—for example, health, finance, computers, media—and enables students to fulfill the requirements for college entrance in addition to acquiring work-related knowledge and skill.

Career Clusters. A broad group of career areas that represent a scope of employment which involves grouping occupations from one or more industries that share common skill requirements. Career clusters provide a means of organizing the thousands of career choices for implementation in the school curriculum.

Career Major. A coherent sequence of courses or field of study that prepares a student for a first job and/or further education and training. It includes 4 sequential related credits in a specific area plus two credits in a related field; one must be a basic computer course.

Cooperative Education. Programs that provide opportunities for career and technical education students to receive on-the-job training and related classroom instruction in the areas of Agriculture, Business, Health, Family and Consumer Sciences, Marketing, Technology Education and Trade and Industrial Education programs.

Dual Enrollment/Articulated Credit. A program of study allowing high school students to earn credits simultaneously toward a high school diploma and a postsecondary degree or certificate. Written agreements formalize programs of study, the transfer of academic and career and technical education credits among institutions and the role of secondary and postsecondary instructors.

Internships. Situations in which students work for an employer for a specified period of time to learn about a particular industry or occupation. Students’ workplace activities may include special projects, a sample of tasks from different jobs, or tasks from a single occupation. These activities may or may not include financial compensation.

Industry-based Certification. A portable, recognized credential (tangible evidence) that validates an individual has successfully demonstrated skill competencies in a core set of content and performance standards in a specific set of work related tasks, single occupational area, oar a cluster of related occupational areas.

Job Shadowing. Typically a part of career exploration activities in late middle and early high school. A student follows an employee at a firm for one or more days to learn about a particular occupation or industry.

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School-based Enterprise. An enterprise in which goods or services are produced by students as part of their school program. School-sponsored enterprises typically involve students in the management of a project that may involve the sale of goods for use by others.

Work-based Learning. Activities at the high school level that involve actual work experience that or connect classroom learning to work.