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Sunday, February 1, 2009
Interview
Yeah... this is something i said I wanted to start doing before the beginning of the school year so that counselors can have a clear understanding of what goes on in the culinary classroom. As we all know Career Tech is treated like a step child but in all honesty our programs are just as important as core classes. I feel this will really strengthen the program because once the counselors get the understanding of all the things involved and the detail that goes into anything that we do they will place the students there that ONLY want to be in our classes. For me dealing with so much dangerous equipment can cause harm to a lot of people if someone does not follow procedure properly or listen carefully to instructions. Career tech is also the saviour for many of our students that are not college bound, we given them other alternatives and show them that can achieve anything they set there mind to. Retrospectively it will make the programs grow and gain better recognition, when others see so many students coming out of our programs continuing on to make it life career. Sometimes I feel that our counselors are a little misinformed when it comes to our programs, they don't see nor understand the ineptness that goes into our finished products ( students). This is one assignment I feel will give great benefit to Career Tech.
I know what you mean with the culinary thing. When People ask me what I teach and I tell them Engineering Drawing and Design, they look at me like I am speaking a foreign language. It will also give the councilors an opportunity to get to know us and what we teach and hopefully help guide some more students into our CTAE departments. With this, we could possibly reach some students that would not normally be exposed to a CTAE program. Possibly giving them a route to take in life they never dreamed of.
ReplyDeleteHi, Keio - well said. Remember also that part of our challenge is to motivate and assist our students as they try to make career decisions. How many of our students truly know what they want to do? Only the lucky ones, in my opinion. Many that come into our programs are still searching and that is where we may be able to interest them in our specialty. I'll bet many of your successful students did not consider a culinary career until they enrolled in your class. Keep after it.
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