Occupational/Career & Technical Education (CTE) - Eisenhower

Find out what Career and Technical Education (CTE) can do for you.

1. Expands your educational options!
   Career and Technical courses add a new dimension to learning. A CTE course relates academic subjects to the “real world” and show how reading and math are important in everyday situations.
2. Provides three educational opportunities in college prep, tech prep, and job preparation. 
   Most Career and Technical programs include academic subjects needed to meet the entrance requirements of four-year colleges and universities. They include technical subjects that meet entry-level job requirements of employers in fields related to the program.
3. Offers you a job-prep path.
   Fifty percent of all those who begin a four-year college program never complete it, with 25% leaving or flunking out during their first year. CTE is insurance for success! CTE provides the knowledge and skills to continue your education or to find a job. “Workforce” indicates 70% of jobs require some technical skills to perform the needed work.
4. Challenges you academically and mentally.
   Career and Technical courses and programs challenge students to apply theoretical knowledge –learned in academic and technical classrooms – to practical problems in technical laboratories and shops. CTE teaches basic lifetime skills.
5. Helps you pay for college!
   The skills acquired in CTE programs concentrate on a particular field to help you get a better, higher- paying job. Work full-time and earn more money quicker to pay for college. Or, work part-time to earn more money while attending college.
6. Broadens your lifelong work and study options.
   Go to work or go to college or do both. Choose a suitable career, regardless of stereotypes. CTE programs prepare you for high-paying careers in fields that used to be closed to them such as technology and trades for women and office and health occupations for men.
7. Helps you acquire lifelong skills and habits to apply to any career. Self-confidence. Self- awareness. Good work habits. Practical problem solving. Punctuality. Reliability. Teamwork.
   Career and Technical Education programs instill the desire to learn, a sense of accomplishment, and that breeds the self-assurance needed to achieve your own goals.

Learn more about CTE career clusters and pathways @ https://ospi.k12.wa.us/student-success/career-technical-education-cte/cte-program-study-and-career-clusters

CTE COURSES OFFERED AT EISENHOWER HIGH SCHOOL BY CTE GRADUATION PATHWAY