Dear Students and Parents:
This booklet contains the descriptions of courses, which are offered at the Johnson
Creek High School. This course description handbook is designed to assist students in
careful planning of high school course selections. Through the School Counseling
program, each student develops a future career plan based on career clusters. This plan
will help to assure that students take all the courses that are needed to fulfill career
goals.
The majority of careers fall into 16 career clusters:
Agriculture Food & Natural Resources
Architecture & Construction
Arts, A/V Technology & Communications
Business Management & Administration
Education & Training
Finance
Government & Public Administration
Health Science
Hospitality & Tourism
Human Services
Information Technology
Law, Public Safety, Corrections, & Security
Manufacturing
Marketing, Sales, & Service
Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics
Transportation, Distribution, & Logistics
Career Clusters identify pathways from high school to two-and four-year technical
colleges, universities, graduate schools, apprenticeship programs and the workplace so
that learners can recognize the relationship between what they learn in school and what
they can do in the future.
Students in 8th and 10th grade participate in Education/Career Planning Conferences.
These conferences are designed to evaluate the student’s progress toward his/her
career goal. During the conference, the student’s schedule is reviewed to ensure
forward progress is being made by the student toward graduation and post-secondary
plans.
In today’s economy most careers/jobs require some post-secondary education.
Post-secondary education can range from an apprenticeship to a technical college
program to a four-year college or university. No matter what career is desired, learning
about career clusters and the career pathways is essential for the student to make an
informed decision.
No high school has the resources to offer all the courses that all individuals may desire.
We, however, have strived to offer a balanced list of courses, which should meet the
needs of the vast majority of our students.
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