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Journey to Careers
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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. |