Copyright: 2025
Virginia Assignment Code: 8471
Suggested Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12
Duration: 36 weeks
Hours: 140
Credits: 1
Prerequisites: None
CTSO: TSA
Course Description:
This course is designed for Technology and Engineering Education students with significant disabilities who require alternative ways to demonstrate their knowledge through hands-on activities. Students will apply math and science concepts and the engineering design process to solve real-world problems individually and as a group. Contextual instruction and student participation in co-curricular career and technical student organization (CTSO) activities will develop leadership, interpersonal, and career skills. High-quality work-based learning (HQWBL) will provide experiential learning opportunities related to students' career goals and/or interests, integrated with instruction, and performed in partnership with local businesses and organizations.
Note: The career cluster will be determined by other courses taken in conjunction with this course to develop a concentration sequence.
Note:
The Virginia Administrative Code regulates the class size for this course. For additional information, see 8VAC20-120-150, "Maximum class size," or contact the Virginia Department of Education Office of Career and Technical Education at cte@doe.virginia.gov.
Note: This course is designed specifically for students with disabilities and shall be limited to an average of 10 students per instructor per class period with no class being more than 12 or up to an average of 12 students per class period with no class being more than 15 where an instructional aide is provided.
Credentials, Course Sequences, and Career Clusters/Pathways can be found here: