What Does Our Program Consist of? 

This program is designed to prepare students who are interested in being teachers or working with children in some way in their future. The Teaching and Training program of study prepares students for careers related to teaching, instruction, and creation of instructional and enrichment materials. The program consists of three courses that build on each other to prepare our students to be in a classroom, the courses are the following: 

1. Principals of Education and Training: This class is designed to introduce students to the various careers available within the education and training career cluster. Students use self-knowledge and educational and career information to analyze various careers within the education and training career cluster. They will also gain an understanding of the basic knowledge and skills essential to careers within the education and training career cluster

2. Human Growth and Development: Human Growth and Development is an examination of human development across the lifespan with emphasis upon research, theoretical perspectives, and common physical, cognitive, emotional, and social developmental milestones. The course covers material that is generally taught in a postsecondary, one-semester introductory course in developmental psychology or human development.

3. Instructional Practices: Instructional Practices in Education and Training is a field-based internship that provides students with background knowledge of child and adolescent development as well as principles of effective teaching and training practices. In this double-period course, students work under the joint direction and supervision of both a teacher with knowledge of early childhood education and exemplary educators or trainers in direct instructional roles with elementary and middle school students. Students learn to plan and direct individualized instruction and group activities, prepare instructional materials, develop materials for educational environments, assist with record keeping, and complete other responsibilities of teachers, trainers, paraprofessionals, or other educational personnel.

4. Paid Practicum in Education and Training: This practicum course is a paid capstone experience for students participating in a coherent sequence of career and technical education courses within their designated program of study. This course is a field-based paid internship that provides students with background knowledge of child and adolescent development as well as principles of effective teaching and training practices. A student must be a minimum age of 16 and hold valid work documentation, such as a Social Security card, to enroll in any of the paid practicum learning experiences. In order to receive course credit, this course requires that students make a full year commitment to this course and their employment, must have related classroom instruction that averages one class period per week during the school year, are employed for fifteen (15) hours per week (or average of 30 hours across two weeks) at an approved site within ten days of the beginning of the course. Work hours can be included during the school day or outside of school hours. If work hours are during the school day, students can be scheduled for work release (noncredit) periods to work as long as work release does not jeopardize students’ projected graduation plan