Our mission:
Career and Technical Education Introduction (CTE Intro) allows students through activity-centered lessons to utilize technology, develop beginning skills, and explore careers. The course provides information regarding additional courses and training related to each student’s career field of interest.

GOALS
As Utah’s exploratory Career and Technical Education Core Curriculum requirement for middle/junior high school, CTE Intro integrated three major objectives:

• Increasing Self-Knowledge
  

• Exploring Education and Occupation Opportunities

• Develop Education and Career Plans

Our vision is to offer every student the opportunity to experience technology used in the workplace, develop beginning life skills, and explore careers that will assist him or her in eventually choosing a career, while giving each student the encouragement to achieve his or her goals.

PROGRAM DELIVERY COMPONENTS
CTE Intro provides students with the direction, decision making, and planning needed to select their personal career paths.

• The program is a year-long course taught by a team of Career and Technical Education teachers and school counselors.
• The student learning activities provide hands-on, real-world application.
• Concepts come from agriculture, health science, marketing, information technology, and economics, and are integrated into business, family and consumer sciences, and technology and engineering education, and career development curricula.
• Students are involved in Work-Based Learning activities such as career fairs, guest speakers, field studies, and job shadows.

CTE PATHWAYS
CTE Pathways or groups of courses within Career and Technical Education areas of study offer students depth of knowledge and skills linked with specific post-secondary programs of 1, 2 or 4  years.

CTE AREAS OF STUDY
Through Awareness Activities, students are exposed to over 60 CTE College and Career Pathways in:

• Agricultural Education
• Business Education
• Economics Education
• Family and Consumer Sciences Education
• Health Science Education
• Information Technology Education
• Marketing Education
• Technology and Engineering Education

Students also have an opportunity to explore individual interests through the following career fields:

• Arts and Recreation
• Business Operations
• Marketing and Administration
• Scientific
• Social Humanitarian
• Technical

STUDENT PARTICIPATION IN CTE INTRO

Updated January 22, 2010