CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION “CTE WORKS”

 Advantages of CTE courses: Life long skills Honors credit Industry Credentials Articulated credit agreement National Technical Honor Society Career Technical Service Organizations Workkeys Assessment

 WWHS Students would choose take: Personal Finance Foods I Foods II (Foundation courses – 3) And 1 enhancement course: Principles of Business MSITA – Microsoft Office Entrepreneurship I Culinary and Hospitality I

 Career and Technical Education Concentrators are students who complete the 3 foundation courses and 1 enhancement course. Students also earn the opportunity to take the Workkeys employment assessment and receive a Career Readiness Certificate..

Workkeys is a series of tests which measures foundational and soft skills and offers specialized assessments to target institutional needs Part of NC High School accountability, WorkKeys has 3 assessments: Reading For Information Locating Information Applied Mathematics

 May earn in several CTE courses.  For the student that completed the Agriculture, Foods and Natural Resources Cluster: ServSafe Sanitation Certification – Foods II  MSITA – Microsoft Word and Powerpoint Certification

 MSITA  Nursing Assistant I  Carpentry  Six Sigma Yellow Belt  Excel and Access  Word and Powerpoint  Nursing Fundamentals  NCCER Certification  Alamance Community College

 Accounting II  Drafting Archectural II and II  Drafting Engineering II and III  Honors credit available in all Level II courses in the futures

 ABSS has articulated agreement with Alamance Community College. Students can earn community college credit through Career and Technical Education courses.

 DECA  FBLA  FCCLA  HOSA  National Technical Honor Society – Completion of 3 CTE courses. Cumulative GPA of 3.0. CTE GPA of 3.5.

 For more information, check the Career Development website or go to Registration information on the Williams website.