What is Career & Technical Education (CTE)?
CTE captures the natural curiosity of students through the use of technology and by making connections to careers and employment. Students learn team-work, decision-making, and leadership in dynamic high-tech classes designed to model business and industry standards. Applying what they learn in SOL courses, students weave theory with hands-on skill to solve real-world problems. This empowers students and answers the question, "Why do I need to know this?"
Career and Technical Education Areas:
Business & Information Technology, Marketing, Technology Education, Family & Consumer Science, and Education for Employment.
Required to Graduate: 1 Fine Art or 1 CTE:
Courses meeting the graduation requirement for Practical Arts are offered in the Career and Technical Education Department. Courses included are those from Family and Consumer Sciences, Business & Information Technology, Marketing, Technology Education, Trade and Industrial and Health & Medical Sciences.
Students need at least 1 Career Technical Education or Fine Arts class to graduate. Please look at the variety of classes CTE has to offer as well as the student organizations that pair with these courses.
Diploma Seal: The Board of Education’s Career & Technical Education Seal will be awarded to students who earn a Standard or Advanced Studies Diploma and complete a prescribed sequence of courses in a career and technical education concentration or specialization that they choose and maintain a “B” or better average in those courses; or pass an examination or an occupational competency assessment in a career and technical education concentration or specialization that confers certification or occupational competency credential from a recognized industry, trade or professional association or acquire a professional license in that career and technical education field from the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Board of Education shall approve all professional licenses and examinations used to satisfy these requirements.
New Diploma: Freshman entering high school have the option to be awarded a new type of diploma: Standard (22 credit hours) or Advanced (26 credit hours) Technical Diploma. This endorsement requires students to take an assortment of CTE courses. Please click on this link graduation requirements for class of 2014 to see the graduation requirements. Also look at all the courses CTE has to offer.
Career and Technical Education Areas:
Business & Information Technology, Marketing, Technology Education, Family & Consumer Science, and Education for Employment.
Required to Graduate: 1 Fine Art or 1 CTE:
Courses meeting the graduation requirement for Practical Arts are offered in the Career and Technical Education Department. Courses included are those from Family and Consumer Sciences, Business & Information Technology, Marketing, Technology Education, Trade and Industrial and Health & Medical Sciences.
Students need at least 1 Career Technical Education or Fine Arts class to graduate. Please look at the variety of classes CTE has to offer as well as the student organizations that pair with these courses.
Diploma Seal: The Board of Education’s Career & Technical Education Seal will be awarded to students who earn a Standard or Advanced Studies Diploma and complete a prescribed sequence of courses in a career and technical education concentration or specialization that they choose and maintain a “B” or better average in those courses; or pass an examination or an occupational competency assessment in a career and technical education concentration or specialization that confers certification or occupational competency credential from a recognized industry, trade or professional association or acquire a professional license in that career and technical education field from the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Board of Education shall approve all professional licenses and examinations used to satisfy these requirements.
New Diploma: Freshman entering high school have the option to be awarded a new type of diploma: Standard (22 credit hours) or Advanced (26 credit hours) Technical Diploma. This endorsement requires students to take an assortment of CTE courses. Please click on this link graduation requirements for class of 2014 to see the graduation requirements. Also look at all the courses CTE has to offer.
