Change Your Life with New Career Options in FIELD’s Career Technical Education
FIELD’s Career Technical Education (CTE) program prepares students for the changing workforce by providing you with skills in exciting career option pathways like Early Childhood Education, Business Management, Recycling, Agriculture and Natural Resources. FIELD goes beyond teaching you the skills you would receive in a trade school or vocational school. FIELD is committed to creating business opportunities for students through social enterprises, where students learn to run their own businesses.
Career and Technical Education has moved beyond your typical vocational or trade school. CTE has implemented several standards that vocational schools do not include. Career Ready Practices describe the career-ready skills that educators seek to develop in their students. These practices are not exclusive to a Career Pathway, program of study, discipline or level of education. Career Ready Practices are taught and reinforced in all of FIELD’s career exploration and program pathways with increasingly higher levels of complexity and expectation as a student advances through a program of study.
The exceptional CTE programs at FIELD are exemplified by our commitment to the career readiness standards that all CTE programs should adhere to. Students learn to apply the appropriate technical skills and academic knowledge to their field of study. They will learn to communicate clearly, effectively and with reason, while developing an education and career plan that is directly aligned with their personal goals. Students will learn how to apply technology to assist them with enhancing productivity in accomplishing workplace tasks and solving workplace problems.
To this effort FIELD students utilize critical thinking to make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. Through the development of social business opportunities students glean a new understanding of personal health and understand that financial literacy and healthy behaviors are intertwined. FIELD students learn to act as responsible citizens in their workplace and community. They become aware of how their actions and decisions impact all people they are associated with. Students in FIELD programs learn how to be models in their communities through integrity, ethical leadership and effective management that positively impacts morale and organizational structure. Students learn how to interact and contribute positively as a team member and leader, while having sensitivity to and an awareness of cultural differences.
FIELD’s core values align directly with career readiness standards through creativity and innovation; however, students will consistently seek new methods, practices and ideas from a variety of sources to apply them to their own workplace. And lastly, they employ valid and reliable research strategies to assist them in understanding the environmental, social and economic impacts of their decisions.
Our Programs
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The Child Development pathway is designed to prepare students to pursue a career in the field of childcare and development for infants, toddlers, and young children. Students study child growth and development, safety and emergency procedures, nutrition and health practices, positive interaction, and guidance techniques, learning theories, and developmentally appropriate practices and curriculum activities.
Management consists of planning, leading, and controlling an organization or effort to accomplish a goal. In the Business Management pathway, students learn entrepreneurship and business fundamentals, goal-setting, resource allocation, organizational structure and management techniques, economics, financial data, risk management, information technology, and supply chain management.
The Environmental Resources pathway prepares students for employment, postsecondary education, and/or training in a variety of environmental industries. Students will learn that recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects.
Materials to be recycled are either delivered to a household recycling center or picked up from curbside bins, then sorted, cleaned, and reprocessed into new materials destined for manufacturing new products.
The Forestry and Natural Resources pathway helps students understand the relationships between California’s natural resources and the environment. Topics include energy and nutrient cycles, water resources and management, soil conservation, wildlife preservation and management, forest and fire management, and lumber production. In addition, students study the outdoor recreation industry and multiple-use management.
This course covers an introduction to agriculture history and California agriculture. Students will gain a working knowledge of the factors that influence plant growth, soil classification techniques and the different types of irrigation. The carbon and nitrogen cycles will be explained as well as how changes in climate impact agriculture. Organic farming, integrated pest management and local food distribution will also be covered. Careers in the agriculture fields will be explored as well as social business exploration.
