The West
Shore Career-Technical Education District offers the programs
listed in this catalog to students of the Bay Village,
Lakewood, Rocky River and Westlake school districts. These
offerings include a continuum of career-focused programs
providing students with multiple routes to full-time or part-time
employment, college, technical school, or military.
West
Shore, in collaboration with Cuyahoga Community College, offers
Tech Prep programs as an educational option for students who
wish
to link their last two years of high school education with a
two-year associate degree technology program at Cuyahoga Community
College. Students enrolled in a Tech Prep programs can earn up
to six semester hours toward a degree at Cuyahoga Community College.
TECH PREP WILL HELP STUDENTS . . .
GET A GREAT JOB
TRANSITION INTO A TWO-YEAR OR FOUR-YEAR COLLEGE PROGRAM
EARN
AN ASSOCIATE'S DEGREE
Within the program clusters, career pathways help students
prepare for a wide range of educational opportunities. Career-focused
instruction gives students opportunities to explore careers
through
work-based learning. Career pathways also enable students to
choose courses and experiences that will help them prepare
for postsecondary or higher education.
CAREER
PATHWAYS WILL HELP STUDENTS...
MAKE APPROPRIATE CAREER DECISIONS
FOCUS ON CAREER GOALS
SELECT
COURSES AND EXPERIENCES LEADING TO THESE GOALS
Career pathways prepare students with a broad range of academic,
employability, and technical skills. Rapidly changing job markets
and new technologies require individuals to have broad-based
skills that transfer to a wide variety of work settings, as
well as high levels of thinking and interpersonal skills.
Career
pathways include instruction that supports meaningful learning.
Developments in the field of cognitive
science suggest learning is most effective when it takes
place in a real-life
context. Career pathways instruction provides important
workplace context that deepens student understanding
of both the academic
and technical content being taught. This type of
contextual instruction enriches the learning process.
