MORGAN COUNTY'S
CAREER/TECHNICAL EDUCATION

The goal of Morgan County's Career/Technical Education curriculum is to provide students access to a flexible system of rigorous school- and work-based learning planned collaboratively by students, parents, educators, and employers. This system will result in graduates having industry-recognized credentials and preparation for advanced study or employment. This course of study is designed to provide content that is student-centered, allowing career pathways that include academic and Career/Technical Education courses specifically directed to students' key interests and required skills. Upon graduation, students are prepared for postsecondary education, apprenticeship programs, employment; as well as individual, family, employer, and community success. The twenty-first century global economy places a premium on innovation, customization, new business models, and new ways for organizing work. To succeed in this new environment, individuals and organizations must continually acquire new skills and new ways of managing knowledge and information. Depth of knowledge and refinement of skills must continually increase for workers to be more productive; find and keep high-skill, high-wage jobs; and advance in careers. Morgan County's Career/Technical Education curriculum keeps pace with the rapid changes in business and industry by offering students high caliber learning experiences that are
in a continuous process of review and improvement. Morgan County's Career/Technical Education curriculum provides for implementation of new measures and methods for assessing and certifying what students know and are able do. This curriculum includes additional performance-and outcome-based measurements that address acquisition of indivudual knowledge and skills. This curriculum designed s students' needs both now and for the future, encompases the following principles/characteristics:

• Learning addresses needs and interests of individual learners.
  
• Students assume a high level of responsibility and accountability for developing specific skills and knowledge needed for their individual goals.
• Teachers, counselors, parents, and students are active participants in the development of students' instructional plans.
• Technology is used to support and customize content and delivery to match students' learning styles, experiences, and skills.
• Learning is a continuous process of inquiry that keeps pace with the speed of change. business, industry and society.
• New methods of assessment and certification of knowledge and skills replace traditional measurements.
  
• Implementation of an open design process allows students to take advantage of borderless, technology-rich environments that provide critical access to rigorous technical and academic subject-area curricula.
• Learning is designed to broaden students' opportunities and competitiveness in a rapidly changing economy.

To help students achieve the goals comprising this new vision, this program of study provides multiple opportunities for increasing students' career choices through a highly flexible, innovative, and rewarding Career/Technical Education program.

Programs Offered

Brewer High
Agriscience Technology, Auto Service Technology, Business Marketing, Child Care, Collision Repair
Technology, Drafting/Design Technology, Electronics Technology, Family & Consumer Science, Food Service, Healthcare Science & Technology, Heating/Ventilation/Air Conditioning, Horticulture/Floriculture, Welding Technology, Cooperative Education

Cotaco Junior High
Industrial Arts, Family & Consumer Science, Career Technologies

Danville High
Agriscience, Family & Consumer Science, Cooperative Education

Eva
Family & Consumer Science

Falkville High
Agriscience, Family & Consumer Science, Cooperative Education

Priceville High

Agriscience, Family & Consumer Science

Union Hill
Pre-VocationalAgriscience

West Morgan High
Agriscience, Family & Consumer Science, Business Marketing, Cooperative Education

Chris Blevins, Morgan County Career/Tech Director 

1325 Point Mallard Parkway SE Decatur, AL 35601 cablevins@morgankI2.org

The Future of an American Dream! Chris Blevins - Director