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CTE Resource WIKI

Career Clusters and Career Pathways

A career cluster is a grouping of classes that a student must take and pass in order to receive credit toward graduation. These clusters are made up of correlating classes in a field of study. A student in a career pathway generally completes at least two of these clusters before graduation. These clusters are designed by the state to build prerequisites for building knowledge at each level of study. In North Carolina students now have to complete two levels of study in the same subject matter to be counted as a completer. In years past the requirement was three classes but the third class has been eliminated in hopes to provide an opportunity for internships.

Programs of Study

The programs of study offered by North Carolina are as follows


 * 1) Agriculture, Food, & Natural Resources
 * 2) Architecture & Construction
 * 3) Arts, Audio/Video Technology, & Communications
 * 4) Business Management & Administration
 * 5) Education & Training
 * 6) Finance
 * 7) Government & Public Administration
 * 8) Health Science
 * 9) Hospitality & Tourism
 * 10) Human Services
 * 11) Information Technology
 * 12) Law, Public Safety, Corrections, & Security
 * 13) Manufacturing
 * 14) Marketing
 * 15) Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics
 * 16) Transportation, logistics

These diverse programs offer a student career training in these specified fields and are a valuable asset to the states ability to properly train entry level skill workers.

Common Career Technical Core

This is the group of educators and business leaders that developed the standards for these sixteen programs. The standards that have been and are continually being developed are comprised from feedback from the public as well as industry professionals who could be potential employers for the student coming out of these programs. The reasoning behind these standards are to have a set list of skills that a students is expected to have when exiting these programs to ensure a uniformed acquisition of knowledge and and equal opportunity when entering the work force.

CTE State Resources

Below is a link to some resources that will be helpful when establishing a CTE Program

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TLZOx0NKGjNdxNbTlcQsybKbSa_88YFYSs_YXghALq0/edit?usp=sharing

Lesson Plan

Below is a link to a sample lesson plan to help new teachers see a template in development of a lesson plan full of rigor.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F5Otl0cka2JP2Gh0GZltZRcL_TLKF-wM7If0LtlhP7A/edit?usp=sharing