What is Career-Technical Education?
Career and technical education is about helping students, workers and lifelong learners of all ages fulfill their working potential. First and foremost it’s about high school and college education that provides students with: • Academic subject matter taught with relevance to the real world, often called contextual learning. • Employability skills, from job-related skills to workplace ethics. • Education pathways that help students explore interests and careers in the process of progressing through school. But career and technical education is also about: • Second-chance education and training for the unemployed and those seeking to upgrade their employability skills. • Education to earn additional degrees, especially when related to career advancement. • Corporate training, continuing education, skills upgrades and refresher courses for those already in the workplace.
Career Technical Education is learning with relevance to the real world, often called contextual learning. Students can explore career interests while learning job-related skills and workplace ethics. It also empowers students to think creatively to solve problems using the latest technology. Not only for the average college age student, you can start as early as high school or develop a second career later in life. Even if you never attended college before you can earn a degree that leads to a new career.
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