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The Lake Area Career and Technology Center and Lake Region State College will take a tag team approach to celebrating Career and Technical Education Week this week.
February is Career and Technical Education Month. This year’s theme is CTE: Careers Through Education. The Lake Area Career and Technology Center (LACTC) along with neighboring Lake Region State College (LRSC) will be celebrating CTE week from Monday, February 13 through Friday, February 17.
LRSC and LACTC programs will be highlighted throughout the week. Minnewaukan and Devils Lake High School students will have the opportunity to not only visit with CTE teachers but also participate in daily prize drawings.
Students from Devils Lake Central Middle School will tour the LACTC and get a preview of career opportunities from nine different program areas. As a kickoff to the event Minnewaukan students have already toured the Lake Area Career and Technology Center.
Career and Technical Education is of great value to all area students. The Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) recognizes CTE for its ability to “equip students with core academic skills (the ability to apply those skills to concrete situations in order to function in the workplace and in routine daily activities), employability skills (such as critical thinking and responsibility) and job-specific, technical skills related to a specific career pathway.”
Career and Technical Education provides equal opportunities for students regardless of their gender. Title IX has been in existence for 40 years, and yet students continue to enroll in “traditional” programs. Automotive technicians and welders, for example, are typically male. Both jobs pay well and both are in high demand, and yet both continue to be classified as non-traditional for women in the workforce). The opposite applies for men in the fields of nursing and early childhood education.
As part of CTE Week, Wednesday February 15 will be “Class Switch Day.” Students will have the opportunity to work in an area/program that is not part of their normal class schedule. Teachers have planned hands-on activities designed to give students a look at careers that they may, in the past, have not considered.
The faculty and staff at the LACTC encourage students to open their eyes to opportunity and it is their hope that “Switch Day” may do just that.
Coming Tuesday, Child and family services program by Mallory Vose.
The Lake Area Career and Technology Center and Lake Region State College will take a tag team approach to celebrating Career and Technical Education Week this week.
February is Career and Technical Education Month. This year’s theme is CTE: Careers Through Education. The Lake Area Career and Technology Center (LACTC) along with neighboring Lake Region State College (LRSC) will be celebrating CTE week from Monday, February 13 through Friday, February 17.
LRSC and LACTC programs will be highlighted throughout the week. Minnewaukan and Devils Lake High School students will have the opportunity to not only visit with CTE teachers but also participate in daily prize drawings.
Students from Devils Lake Central Middle School will tour the LACTC and get a preview of career opportunities from nine different program areas. As a kickoff to the event Minnewaukan students have already toured the Lake Area Career and Technology Center.
Career and Technical Education is of great value to all area students. The Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) recognizes CTE for its ability to “equip students with core academic skills (the ability to apply those skills to concrete situations in order to function in the workplace and in routine daily activities), employability skills (such as critical thinking and responsibility) and job-specific, technical skills related to a specific career pathway.”
Career and Technical Education provides equal opportunities for students regardless of their gender. Title IX has been in existence for 40 years, and yet students continue to enroll in “traditional” programs. Automotive technicians and welders, for example, are typically male. Both jobs pay well and both are in high demand, and yet both continue to be classified as non-traditional for women in the workforce). The opposite applies for men in the fields of nursing and early childhood education.
As part of CTE Week, Wednesday February 15 will be “Class Switch Day.” Students will have the opportunity to work in an area/program that is not part of their normal class schedule. Teachers have planned hands-on activities designed to give students a look at careers that they may, in the past, have not considered.
The faculty and staff at the LACTC encourage students to open their eyes to opportunity and it is their hope that “Switch Day” may do just that.
Coming Tuesday, Child and family services program by Mallory Vose.
