Career-Technical Education in the Central Kitsap School District
provides students with the applied technological and life skills, positive
work attitudes, work ethics, and leadership for successful entrance into
the modern workforce or for advanced training. Included are
strategies to develop personally satisfying lives for individuals and
families and a desire for lifelong learning in a rapidly changing and
diverse technological society.
Vision Statement
An articulated system of applied learning programs, working in
conjunction with academic education, that prepares all students to make a
successful transition from school-to-career.
Philosophy Statement
Career-Technical Education means a planned series of learning
experiences, the specific objective of which is to prepare persons to
enter, continue in, or upgrade themselves in the area of family living and
technical occupations which are not designated as professional or requiring
a baccalaureate or higher degree. The methodology of instruction
identifies the abilities and skills needed for on-the-job performance
which informs the students and teachers of the precise and detailed
learning objectives required to achieve the work-based competencies.
It emphasizes performance standards in testing, course requirements,
and/or graduation and facilitates learning by letting each student master
the task prior to advancing to another.
That all students should have the opportunity to participate in workforce
training before leaving high school.
That a student's choices of Career-Technical programs should be based on
the student's interest and ability to benefit from the training.
That instructional facilities and equipment in Career-Technical programs should
be comparable to that which is used in the occupation for which the student
is being trained.
Career-Technical courses will be developed from the duties and tasks
(business & industry standards) performed by incumbent workers in an
occupational domain and focus on what a learner must know by successfully
attain the performance objective.
That the General Advisory Council and program advisory committees are in
integral part of Career-Technical Education.
That gender, ethnicity, or disability will not limit student's
opportunities to benefit from Career-Technical Education.
That career guidance and counseling services shall be available to all
students to assist in the Career-Technical program selection process.
That student leadership development is an integral part of
Career-Technical Education.
That the instructional setting be structured so that the maximum number of
students per class shall be determined by the number of training stations,
safety factors, and individual instruction requirements of the specific
skills being developed.
Career-Technical education will be efficient in proportion as the
environment in which the learner is trained is a replica of the environment
in which he/she must work.
Effective training can only be given where training jobs are carried on in
the way with the same operations, the same tools and the same machines as
the occupation itself.
Career-Technical education will be as effective as it trains the
individual directly and specifically in the problem solving and manipulative
skills required in the occupation itself.
Career-Technical education will be as effective as it enable each
individual to capitalize his/her interest, aptitudes and intrinsic
intelligence to the highest possible degree.
Effective career-technical education for any profession, calling, trade,
occupation or job, can only be given the select group of individuals who
need it, want it and are able to profit by it.
Career-Technical training will be a effective as the specific training
experiences for forming right habits of doing and thinking are repeated to
the point that the habits developed are those of the finished skills
necessary for gainful employment.
Career-Technical education will be effective as the instructor has had
successful experience in the application of skills and knowledge to the
operation and processes he/she undertakes.
For every occupation there is a minimum of productive ability which an
individual must possess in order to secure or retain employment in the
occupation. If Career-Technical education is not carried to the point
with that individual, it is neither personally nor socially effective.
Career-Technical education must recognize conditions as they are and must
train individuals to meet the demands of the "market" even though
it may be true that more efficient ways of conducting the occupation may be
known and that better working conditions are highly desirable.