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Welcome to Career Pathways!

Welcome to Career Pathways!. What Is a Pathway?. A Pathway is a sequence of courses within your area of interest. A Pathway connects from high school to college for a specific degree and/or career. Many courses within a Pathway offer concurrent enrollment credit.

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Welcome to Career Pathways!

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  1. Welcome to Career Pathways!

  2. What Is a Pathway? • A Pathway is a sequence of courses within your areaof interest. • A Pathway connects from high school to college for a specific degree and/or career. • Many courses within a Pathway offer concurrent enrollment credit. • A Pathway will save you time and money toward a college degree.

  3. Why Pathways? Top 5 Reasons to Participate inCTE Career Pathways: 1. To acquire technical skills training. 2. To participate in hands-on learning. 3. To jumpstart your future career. 4. To earn college credit while in high schoolthrough concurrent enrollment credit. 5. To save time and money!

  4. CTE Career Pathways Sampling of Pathways Within Eight Areas of Study Food Sciences & Culinary Arts Marketing Management Animal Science Drafting/CAD Child Development Pre-Engineering Digital Media Firefighting Electronics Accounting & Finance Biotechnology Interior Design Nursing Travel & Tourism Agricultural Systems Technology WHICH ONE WILL YOU CHOOSE?

  5. Ask Yourself… • WHAT do I want to be doing in 5 years? • WHAT do I want to be doing in 10 years? OR Developing a new medication? Asking, “Do you want fries with that?”

  6. Ask Yourself… • WHAT classes should I take to get ready for college? • WHAT does it cost to go to college?

  7. Ask Yourself… • WHY should I plan? • WHY should I study? • WHY should I graduate from high school?

  8. Ask Yourself… • HOW can CTE Career Pathways help me? • HOW do I find the options that areright for me? • HOW do I find a satisfying career?

  9. Earning Power Education Pays!

  10. Did You Know? 90% of jobs require additional training beyond high school.

  11. CTE: Keeping It Real Classroom instruction connects to the REAL world of work and future career opportunities. Statistics indicate that CTE graduates are worth higher wages because they are more productive than other workers.

  12. Remember… CTE Pathways: • Will jumpstart your future career. • Will give you unlimited opportunities. • Will help you plan for life after high school— • before graduation. • Will save you time and money. Your career is the trip of a lifetime—get directions!

  13. Explore CTE Pathways! For more information aboutCTE Career Pathways, log on to www.UtahCTE.org.

  14. To-Do List ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ • Surf www.UtahCTE.org • Talk to teacher • Pick-up CTE Pathways brochure from teacher • Text friends about CTE • Tell parents about CTE • Make appointment with school counselor

  15. CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION: Giving Students the Edge

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