This site is a class blog space for new Career and Technical Specializations and Heathcare Science teachers enrolled in the New Teacher Institute (NTI) at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Monday, February 4, 2013
CAREER / TECHNICAL EDUCATION A - A MUST!
I believe that career and technical education is needed more now than ever before. With today's economy being what it is and students graduating with degrees and not able to find work fields they spent years studying for, learning trades in the technical education department seems to be the key for many students. Most of whom are directly hired into the occupations they have been training in, or go on to start up their own businesses in Healthcare, Automotive, Public Safety & Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Cosmetology, and the list goes on. Career and Technical Education is now and will always be a major part of the total education system.
I always enjoy reading your point of view Leonard. As always I agree, some students will go to college but all will join the work force.CTAE also teaches problem solving skills at the highest level.
ReplyDeleteThat is oh so true Leonard and Ken! Today's society, kids being the most important, need to learn a job skill and not just education alone. That is how my grandparents survived. My grandfather was a barber and a brick layer. Education wasn't needed for either of those jobs, but the skill was. He supported a wife and five kids because my grandmother didn't work. Some times I think we're in a recession, but often times, I feel this is the wheel reinventing itself because of how our elders lived and what they did to support themselves and their families.
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