7500Y (7500 A and B)
Grade: 9
Level: 2
Credits: 1 (+.5 Professional Communications Credit)
Prerequisite: None

CTSO Membership opportunity: FCCLA- Family Career & Community Leaders- $25 Dues

Principles of Education and Training is designed to introduce learners to the various careers available within the Education and Training Career Cluster. Students use self-knowledge as well as educational and career information to analyze various careers within the Education and Training Career Cluster. Students will develop a graduation plan that leads to a specific career choice in the student’s interest area.

7502Y (7502 A and B)
Grade: 10-12
Level: 2
Credit: 1
Prerequisite: None
Recommended Prerequisite: Principles of Education and Training or Principles of Health Science

CTSO Membership opportunity: FCCLA- Family Career & Community Leaders- $25 Dues

Human Growth and Development is an examination of human development across the lifespan with emphasis on research, theoretical perspectives, and common physical, cognitive, emotional, and social developmental milestones. The course covers material that is generally taught in a postsecondary, one-semester introductory course in developmental psychology or human development.

What’s Next? Instructional Practices in Education & Training or Dual Credit-Brookhaven CC- Child Development Associate Training ICDEC 1417

7501Y (7501 A and B)
Grade: 11-12
Level: 2
Credit: 2 (2 periods) (This is a DOUBLE BLOCKED COURSE- 2 periods)
Prerequisite: Principles of Education and Training and Human Growth and Development
Certification Possibility & Required Fees: AHA- BLS: CPR / First Aid- $10

CTSO Membership opportunity: FCCLA- Family Career & Community Leaders- $25 Dues
Must be able to provide transportation for off campus experiences

Instructional Practices is a field-based (practicum) internship that provides students with background knowledge of child and adolescent development as well as principles of effective teaching and training practices. Students work under the joint direction and supervision of both a teacher with knowledge of early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence education and exemplary educators or trainers in direct instructional roles with elementary-, middle school-, and high school-aged students. Students learn to plan and direct individualized instruction and group activities, prepare instructional materials, develop materials for educational environments, assist with record keeping, and complete other responsibilities of teachers, trainers, paraprofessionals, or other educational personnel.

What’s Next? Practicum in Education and Training or Brookhaven Dual Credit Option: Child Development Associate Training I- CDEC 1417

7503Y (7503 A and B)
Grade: 12
Level: 3
Credit: 2 (2 periods)
ENROLLMENT IS LIMITED (This is a DOUBLE BLOCKED COURSE- 2 periods)
PROGRAM QUALIFICATION FORM & PROGRAM TEAM APPROVAL REQUIRED FOR ALL SENIOR LEVEL / PRACTICUM COURSES
Prerequisite: Instructional Practices
Certification Possibility & Required Fees: OSHA 10-Hour General Industry ($25)

CTSO Membership opportunity: FCCLA- Family Career & Community Leaders- $25 Dues
Must be able to provide your own transportation for off campus Practicum Experiences.

Practicum in Education and Training is a field-based internship that provides students background knowledge of child and adolescent development principles as well as principles of effective teaching and training practices. Students in the course work under the joint direction and supervision of both a teacher with knowledge of early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence education and exemplary educators in direct instructional roles with elementary, middle school, and high school-aged students. Students learn to plan and direct individualized instruction and group activities, prepare instructional materials, assist with record keeping, make physical arrangements, and complete other responsibilities of classroom teachers, trainers, paraprofessionals, or other educational personnel.

There is no level-down option for this cours