Career and Technical Education
This course examines how the relationships between individuals and among family members affect the quality of life. Students will acquire knowledge and skills to enhance personal development, foster quality relationships, promote wellness of family members, manage multiple adult roles, and pursue careers related to counseling and mental health services.
Read More about Interpersonal Studies.Introduction to Cosmetology students explore careers in the cosmetology industry. To prepare for success, students must have academic and technical knowledge and skills relative to the industry.
Read More about Introduction to Cosmetology.In Counseling and Mental Health, students model the knowledge and skills necessary to pursue a counseling and mental health career through simulated environments. Students are expected to apply knowledge of ethical and legal responsibilities, limitations on their actions and responsibilities, and the implications of their actions. Students understand how professional integrity in counseling and mental…
Read More about Counseling and Mental Health.This capstone course is designed to give students supervised practical application of previously studied knowledge and skills in an unpaid arrangement appropriate to the nature and level of experience. Students will demonstrate proper job search procedures, interview techniques, professional dress and appearance, interpersonal skills, and technical skills in their practicum placement locations. Students who wish…
Read More about Practicum in Human Services.Students apply their knowledge and skills learned in previous PLTW Biomedical Science courses to develop innovative solutions for health challenges of the 21st century. The course includes an independent project in which the students are encouraged to work with a mentor or advisor from a university, hospital, physician’s office, or industry. This is a capstone…
Read More about Biomedical Innovation.Certification opportunity: EKG Technician (Parent consent required). Through classroom, laboratory, and simulation experiences, students will learn and apply skills of the health science professional, including vital signs, environmental protection, safety in the healthcare environment, and admission/transfer/discharge procedures. Students will learn to perform skills specific to a health science professional such as medical assistant and EKG…
Read More about Health Science Theory & Lab: EKG.Certification Opportunity: Medical Assistant. This capstone course is designed to provide an opportunity for senior students who are completing a coherent sequence of health science courses. Students will observe and perform previously studied patient care skills related to the health science field. The unpaid practical application experiences may occur in a school lab and/or community…
Read More about Practicum in Health Science.This capstone course is designed to provide an opportunity for senior students who have taken Project Lead the Way Biomedical courses to observe and to perform practical application of previously studied laboratory skills related to the health science field. The unpaid practical application experience may occur in a school lab and/or community health facility location…
Read More about Practicum HS Sci Biomedical.This is a capstone course for students that are completing a coherent sequence of courses in the Exercise and Welness program of study providing opportunities for students to participate in work-based learning experience that combines classroom instruction with business and industry employment experiences. Students will have the opportunity to observe and to perform practical application…
Read More about Career Prep in Sports Medicine.Students will study of the structure and function of the human body, its individual systems, processes, and the interaction of the body systems for maintaining homeostasis. Specimen dissections are a component of this course, as well as independent lab skills and techniques. This course satisfies a high school science graduation requirement.
Read More about Anatomy and Physiology of Human Systems.