Career & Technical Education (CTE)
Bringing schools, businesses, and organizations together to create exciting career exploration opportunities for students.
The Career & Technical Education Department is a consortium of the Business & Financial Services, Family & Consumer Sciences and Technology & Engineering disciplines. As a comprehensive, standards-based instructional program, CTE focuses on enabling students to demonstrate individual creativity and achievement through the use of advanced technologies and 21st century skills. Through the use of Mac and PC computer labs, authentic pre-schools, culinary labs, 3D printers and manufacturing labs, CTE students cultivate skills that improve the lives of individuals, families, and communities. Students routinely participate in problem-solving activities that reflect current workplace practices and develop career awareness, time management and communication skills. In collaboration with School Counseling and Advisory, students work to establish a plan based on their career aspirations and interests. CTE courses align to specific career pathways to help students develop interest, experience and skills for their college and career readiness.
Brian Cohen
Department Supervisor of Business & Finance, Family & Consumer Sciences, and Technology & Engineering
School:
860-561-6661
Mission and Goals
The mission of the Career & Technical Education department is to integrate core academics with 21st century skills that develop and empower problem solvers through critical and analytical thinking.
Department Goals:
- Continued implementation of the Rigorous Curriculum Design model
- Improve instructional practice through the use of embedded formative assessment. Investigate and implement effective strategies and best practices related to formative assessment within course teams
- Continued development of common assessments through crosstown collaboration
- Continued growth on the Perkins CTE Federal Assessment
- Foster opportunities for teachers to engage in discipline specific training and in the collaboration of best practices
College Career Pathways (CCP) Program
School-to-Careers Partnership Program
Information on
-Job Shadows
-Internships
-Mentoring
-Peer Mentoring programs
Clubs
- Conard Astronomy, Computer Science & Engineering (ACE)
- Conard DECA Business Club
- Conard TSA/ACE Club
- Hall DECA Business Club
- Hall VEX Robotics Team
- Hall Stock Market Club
- Hall TSA/Gaming Club
Conard Astronomy, Computer Science & Engineering (ACE)
Conard DECA Business Club
Conard TSA/ACE Club
Hall DECA Business Club
Hall VEX Robotics Team
Hall Stock Market Club
Hall TSA/Gaming Club
Middle School
STEM: SCIENCE → TECHNOLOGY → ENGINEERING → MATH
Helping student’s gain the skills required to succeed in today’s challenging world including critical thinking, problem solving and the ability to drive advancements in STEM. The Technology & Engineering Department puts the “T&E” in STEM.
Our program goals seek to enable students to:
- Advance technological and information literacy
- Apply creative problem solving and critical thinking skills within the design process
- Understand the impacts of technology on society
- Collaborate to enhance experiential learning and communication in a diverse environment
- Develop STEM career awareness and exploration
Grade 6 Focus: Exploring Technology
In 6th grade Technology & Engineering students look at how technological systems affect people, society, and their environments. Technologies are artifacts we have designed and engineered to solve problems and improve the world around us. Students will begin to examine the benefits and consequences of technology by designing and testing aerodynamic vehicles, building model structures, and programming. The units of study introduce the engineering design process, CAD software, 3D printing, coding and computer science principles.
Grade 7 Focus: Engineering, Manufacturing and Robotics
Through the exploration of engineering and manufacturing 7th grade Technology & Engineering students use the engineering design process to discover the world of modern manufacturing and the field of robotics. The units of study include technical design through CAD, manufacturing processes, the safe use of equipment within a production environment, robotic design, assembly and coding within computer science principles.
Grade 8 Focus: Communication, Graphic Design and Computer Science
In the 8th grade students use the principles of design and the engineering process to solve various challenges. Units of study introduce students to the graphic design process, the creation of messages through visual communication and engineering principles with an emphasis on CAD software, 3D printing, engineering, digital photography, coding and game design. With a strong vertical articulation within the middle school Technology & Engineering program, students prepare for advanced approaches to STEM careers at the high schools.
High School
The Career & Technical Education Department is a consortium of the Business & Finance, Family & Consumer Sciences and Technology & Engineering disciplines. As a comprehensive, standards-based instructional program, CTE focuses on enabling students to demonstrate individual creativity and achievement through the use of advanced technologies and 21st century skills. Through the use of Mac and PC computer labs, authentic pre-schools, culinary labs, 3D printers and manufacturing labs, CTE students cultivate skills that improve the lives of individuals, families, and communities. Students routinely participate in problem-solving activities that reflect current workplace practices and develop career awareness, time management and communication skills. In collaboration with School Counseling and Advisory, students work to establish a plan based on their career aspirations and interests. CTE courses align to specific career clusters to help students develop interest, experience and skills for college and career readiness.
Business & Finance |
Family & Consumer Sciences |
Technology & Engineering |
| Business & Financial Services Pathway | Health Sciences & Human Services Pathway | Communications & Design Pathway |
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| Communications & Design Pathway | Hospitality, Culinary & Tourism Pathway | |
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| STEM & IT Pathway | ||
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* Graduation Requirement - Class of 2027 and beyond.