Career and Technology Education Elective Courses

Cooperative Education

Cooperative Education is available for students who have completed the course work and acquired most of the knowledge and skills for a career and technical program, and wish to finish their training plan through course work at school and on-the-job training. The selection process for acceptance and placement into a cooperative education program places particular emphasis on prior grades, attendance, and behavior in school.

• DCT Principles (8303010)
  Grades 10-12.
  
  This course is designed to enable each student to demonstrate employability skills; environmental, health, and safety skills; professional, legal, and ethical responsibilities; financial skills; leadership skills; communication skills; human resources and labor skills; America’s economic principles; entrepreneurship principles; relate planning methods to life and career goals; and use of industry/technology principles in the workplace.

• DCT Applications (8303020)
  Grades 11-12; DCT Principles required.
  
  This course is designed to enable each student to apply environmental, health, and safety skills; professional, legal, and ethical responsibilities; financial management skills; leadership skills; social, legal, and economic aspects of employment; international economic principles; components of a business plan; decision-making skills to life and career goals; technical skills; and the functions of management.

• DCT Management (8303030)
  Grades 12; DCT Applications required.
  
  This course is designed to enable each student to implement competency and mastery in the areas of employability (human resource); environmental, health, and safety; professional, legal and ethical workplace responsibilities; financial planning; leadership skills; communication skills; labor and human resource issues related to the workplace; global and economic issues; a business plan; employability skills related to life and career goals; managerial/supervisory uses of technology; the five functions of management; the role of the manager; and technical and production skills.

• DCT—On-The-Job Training (8300410)
  Grades 10-12; DCT Principles or DCT Management required. (DCT-OJT may be taken concurrently with DCT Principles or Management.) Job and Application required: http://www.foresthigh.org/cte/co_op/coopforms.html
  
  This course is designed to enable each student to demonstrate competencies in a specific career and to demonstrate legal and ethical behavior within the role and scope of job responsibilities through a realistic, on-the-job training experience. An individualized training plan is developed and utilized to ensure that training is provided which will develop the necessary competencies/skills in order for the student to become competent in the occupation for which he/she is being trained. The training plan is the "curriculum" for the on-the-job training and the time card is the attendance record. The student must be paid for work performed. Course can be taken for multiple credits.

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