Electives & Career Prep

Elective courses offer students an opportunity to sample subjects and professional fields that may be of interest to them. Governor Mifflin teachers work to provide real-world experiences in these courses, which often includes collaborating with students and staff in other classes, in other schools, or in the community.

Recent examples of cross-disciplinary collaboration among elective classes at the high school include STEM/CAD classes working with physics classes to design catapults; business classes working with tech ed/STEM classes to create products for sale; CAD classes collaborating with housing and interior design students to create useful interior spaces; child development classes working with Pre-K students at Cumru; art classes working with business classes on web design projects.

From Family Consumer Science, to Art, to Business, to Music, to Tech. Ed., the building project will reconfigure classroom space at the high school and middle school to help facilitate trans-disciplinary collaboration, especially among our elective courses that will provide a variety of avenues for students to explore possible career pathways. In addition, the renovation project will provide modernized space for students to engage in authentic, real world experiences that lead to an internship or capstone project as a culminating opportunity to reinforce and highlight the knowledge and skills of each student in the career pathway of their choice.