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CTE
What You Need to Know
Digital Literacy: Students will enhance keyboarding skills. Students will identify a computer as a device that utilizes hardware and software to accept input, process data, store data, and produce output. Students will recognize the rights, responsibilities, and opportunities of living, learning, and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that are safe, legal, and ethical. Students will learn about Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Power point).
Business/Marketing: Students will explore the basic economic principles, resources, and their effect on business decisions. Students will explore how the connection between structures of business ownership, ethics, intellectual property, and leadership work together to manage resources and employees. Students will determine skills and characteristics of entrepreneurs and explore entrepreneurial opportunities. Students will be able to define the marketing mix, and students will understand the concepts needed to market products to achieve a desired outcome. Students will understand basic accounting concepts. Students will develop and demonstrate the necessary skills to gain and keep employment. Students will understand basic principles of investing.
What You Need to Know
In CCA, we will learn about different careers and see what type of jobs we prefer. There is a lot of group work and hands-on activities in this class. Come prepared daily with a pencil and a can-do attitude.
In FACS B, we will learn about communication, goal-setting, food and kitchen safety, nutrition, childcare and safety, and resumés, and marketing. We will start each day with review questions to help confirm learning. A pencil and a good attitude are the most important tools daily.
What You Need to Know
These classes are project based with the intent to learn life skills and career skills. We focus on learning the language of professionals for each of the different areas.
There are six distinct areas of Family and Consumer Sciences we focus on Personal Development, Childcare, Sewing, Foods and Nutrition, Interior Design, and Free Enterprise.
FCS 6th grade class does an overview introduction to each of these areas.
FCS A focuses in detail on the sewing and fashion design, interior design and free enterprise areas and is a prerequisite before FCS Integrated.
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