Pay attention to these occupational areas:
• Agriculture (careers that are connected with food and fiber production and agricaltural business)
• Business (accounting, business administration, management, information technology and entrepreneurship)
• Family and Consumer Sciences (culinary arts, fashion design, interior design, home maintenance, employment and career development, child care and other skills required in life)
• Health Occupations (nursing, dental and medical technicians)
• Marketing (management, entrepreneurship, merchandising and retail)
• Technology (the production of consumer electronic goods, communication systems and transportation systems)
• Trade and Industrial (trades that demand special skills such as automotive technician, carpenter, computer technician trades)
The students, who were engaged in career and occupational programs and transit from high school, can work or enter a two- or four-year post-secondary technical institution or a four-year college. Such education programs suggest knowledge and skills that can be applied effectively in business, industrial or labor activities. The “labor” activities includes such occupations as retail sales and entry-level factory work, trades that demand skills such as carpentry, pipe fitting and masonry. The labor experience is received through cooperative education or work experience programs. There is also a possibility for students engaged in these programs at high school to find a fob at job sites and work. A high school teacher, who is responsible for these programs, helps students to find a job.
There are ten high school student organizations, which are established by federal legislation and ensure programs of career and development, motivation and recognition for students engaged in career and technical education programs. The instructor of each program is responsible for the coordination of activities based on the curriculum. The entry to a student organization is accomplenished upon wish, in some cases it is an integral component of school activities, where students use obtained skills and communicate in an informal atmosphere. Such organizations give their participants the possibility to develop self-confidence, to make decisions making and solve problems. It is recommended for students with learning disabilities to take part in the career and technical student organizations.
The club activities provide the teachers with the additional possibility to teach and instruct students. Students receive support and encouragement and become more self-comfident. The participants of student organizations attend the enterprises of local business and industry; observe their work in order to solve the problem of the furure occupation. Every high school should have a job maintenance club that provides the students with additional support. It helps to solve any problems related with job experiences. Students with disabilities or difficulties with study can take part in such career and technical programs and the student organizations. They are recommended for those, who have low socioeconomic status, a single parent, pregnancy, low popularity and successes in an educational process. Students, who are the members of an ethnic or racial minority group, can also take part in such organizations.
Such vocational programs are for all from 14 to 21, no matter, if you are a student or not. According to the Workforce Investment Act, there are possibilities for getting information concerning employment services, unemployment insurance, vocational rehabilitation and education.
The candidates for this program are those, who are from 14 to 21 and have difficulties with study. Other candidates are those, who: 1) are dropped from school, 2) have unsufficial for study skills, 3) do not have where to live, 4) are pregnant or have already children, 5) suffer from adults’cruelty, 6) want to finish study or study and work simultaneously.
A career-technical education and vocational trades are very beneficial nowadays. They are in demand and bring satisfaction, because they are extremely required, for example, the trades of a plumber or electrician.
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