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Virginia Assignment Code: 9080

Suggested Grade Level: 10, 11, 12

Duration: 36 weeks

Prerequisites: None

CTSO: N/A

Course Description:

This course focuses on enabling students to make informed career and continuing education choices as they transition from school, gain technical skills, and adapt to the workplace. Students will learn to apply ethical behaviors and career-research, job-acquisition, workplace-communication, self-awareness, self-advocacy, customer-service, and life skills. This course offers practical learning opportunities for students to enter the workforce with acquired workplace readiness skills and knowledge and to take advantage of economic opportunities. 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 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, Technical and Adult Education at cte@doe.virginia.gov.

Note: This course is designed specifically for students who are disadvantaged and shall be limited to an average of 15 students per instructor per class period with no class being more than 18.

Credentials, Course Sequences, and Career Clusters/Pathways can be found here:

https://www.cteresource.org/career-clusters/marketing/education-for-employment-ii-preparation/