career prep

Q2 Career Match Vocabulary

16. Career Prep

Key Vocabulary

Career Cluster: A career cluster is a group of jobs and industries that are related by skills or product.

Career Pathway: A career pathway is a series of educational and training programs and services that enable students, often while they are working, to advance over time to successively higher levels of education and employment in a given industry or occupational sector. 

Career Technical Education (CTE): CTE is a one to tw0-year program within the 16 Career Clusters offered to high school students to get specialized training in his or her chosen field. CTE gives students up to two years of training/work experience in their chosen career prior to leaving high school.  

Infographics: Infographics are visual ways to represent data and information.

Job Outlook: A job outlook is a calculated prediction of how many job openings there will be available for a career at a future time.

Personality: Personality is the combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual's distinctive character.

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MITECS  Michigan Integrated Technology Competencies for Students, and

ISTE Standards for Students

2. Digital Citizen
c. Demonstrate an understanding of and respect for the rights and obligations of using and sharing intellectual property

3. Knowledge Constructor
a. Plan and employ effective research strategies to locate information and other resources for their intellectual or creative pursuits
c. Curate information from digital resources using a variety of tools and methods to create collections or artifacts that demonstrate meaningful connections or conclusions
d. Build knowledge by actively exploring real-world issues and problems, developing ideas and theories and pursuing answers and solutions

6. Creative Communicator
a. Choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication
c. Communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations
d. Publish or present content that customizes the message and medium for their intended audiences