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CTE Introduction is a course designed to help students understand the interrelationship between career pursuits and life roles, explore career opportunities, and experience some of the technology which is so dramatically affecting both the workplace and the home. Because change is occurring at an accelerated pace in each of these areas, the CTE Introduction course is continually modified to reflect advances in technology and in careers. Minor changes were made in the CTE Introduction course between 1987 and 1999. The 1999 Legislature approved funding for CTE Introduction to affect a major update of the program and provide ongoing resources for equipment repair and upgrade and for update training for teachers. Following extensive site visits, surveys, and focus groups involving teachers and counselors, the following goals for the update were identified: 1. Help students have greater understanding of why they take CTE Introduction and have more reflection activities. 2. Provide students with more integrated instruction in career development with updated activities. 3. Define the role of the professional school counselors in delivering the curriculum for CTE Introduction. 4. Help students see CTE Introduction as a year-long course and not as three separate programs. 5. Have teachers, counselors, and administrators work as a team. 6. Strengthen the areas of health science, agriculture, marketing, and personal economics. 7. Update equipment and the curriculum and build on the previous success of the CTE Introduction course. In 2007, standards, objectives and supporting curricula are again being revised to reflect the changing nature of the world of work.
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