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Journey to Careers
Question | Answer |
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budget | the total sum of money set aside for a given purpose |
Career | a life long journey as a person works to meet their earning, learning, and living goals. A career continually changes as an individual grows through personal experiences, education, and activities. |
Career Cluster | a grouping of careers with similar skills or common themes based on industry groupings and all educational levels |
Career Development | actively engaged in setting goals for personal living, earning a living, and life-long learning, and establishes a plan for reaching these personal goals |
Career Field | a broad grouping of the 16 career clusters based on commonalities among clusters |
Career Pathway | a subgroup listed next to one of the six career fields on the NCE model. Specialties fall into this group |
Career Speciality | a specific job title within a pathway within a cluster |
Certification | a credential indicating specific training in a career speciality |
College/University | a post-secondary institution that offers degrees. Programs and length of study vary. Universities are usually larger than a college, provide a wider range of majors and offer advanced degrees such as masters and doctorates |
Communication | (FKS) the ability to speak, listen, read, and write to function successfully |
Louisiana Career Education Model | What does LCEM stand for? |
6 | How many fields does the model have? |
16 | How many clusters does the model have? |
Foundation Knowledge Skills | What does FKS stand for? |
A specific job title within a pathway inside a cluster. | What is a career specialty? |
A broad grouping of the career clusters based on common things. | What is a career field? |
A sub-group listed next to one of the career fields on the model; career specialties fall into this group. | What is a career pathway? |
Prepares learners for careers in areas such as food, fiber, wood products, natural resources, horticulture, and other plant and animal products. | What is the Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources cluster? |
Farmers, wild-life officers, meat-packing specialist | What are some career specialties in the Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources cluster? |
a grouping of careers with similar skills or common themes based on industry groupings at all educational levels | What is a career cluster? |
internship | part-time, on-the-job training experience |
mentoring | long-term relationship between a student and a mentor to teach good work habits, ethics, and skills |
service learning | involves volunteer service project work |
cooperative education program | includes teachers coordinating classroom instruction with students' part-time work in a field |
apprenticeship | on-the-job training coordinated with courses of academic study leading to a certified master of a particular skill |
job shadowing | is following an experienced worker through a typical day at their work |
exploratory interview | short informal talks with someone who works in a career you are interested in |
a career | encompases all of your life's work |
a job | is short-term and more of a means to an end |
Arts, A/V Technology and Communication | includes two broad categories-performing arts and journalism and broadcasting |
community college | post-secondary institution that offers certificates, diplomas, and associate degrees. Most programs will transfer to a four-year college/university |
compensation | payment given or received in return for work |
Concurrent enrollment | allows academically talented high school juniors and seniors to enroll in university courses and receive college credit. High school credit is not received. |
cooperative education program | an arrangement in which teachers coordinate classroom instruction with a students' part-time work in the field. Students spend part of the day at school and part of the day on the job. |
Credit | is a unit to measure the quantity of classes completed. For example, in one school you will earn 5 credits for each semester class you pass. |
critical thinking | the mental process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information to reach an answer or conclusion. |
depreciation | a decrease in value due to wear and tear, decay, decline in price, etc. |
doctorate | academic title awarded for completion of an advanced course of study beyond a bachelor's degrees- the highest level of graduate school. |
Down Payment | and initial amount paid at the time of purchase in installment buying. |
dual credit | a course taken while in high school through college that awards both high school and college credit at the same time. |
Dual Enrollment | enrolled in two institutions at the same time |
elective | classes that the student can choose. |