Career and Technical Education is one phase of the process of education for work. First, through education, our youth can better understand the function of work and its relationship to a full life and thereby motivate them to fully develop their potential for work. Second, as educational decisions are made with regard to planning and implementation, we realize how important that work is in the lives of people, and thus become more knowledgeable about programs of education for work.

The traditional conflict between vocational education and academic education is not valid. While we teach specialized skills training we are not only concerned with skills aimed at preparing for employment, rather, the enlarged picture dealing with all of the competencies needed to function effectively in employment and in life.

Provide all students a seamless education system, driven by competency-based instruction, culminating in essential life skills, certified occupation skills, and meaningful employment.

School to Careers and Community Programs:
The success of our vocational programs depends on our ability to attract students and gain funding. The attitudes and actions of our community greatly assist us to meeting our goals. Program planning is an ongoing process. We strive to maintain schedules that have balance, and have continuous community relations built in. We are proud of our partnerships and appreciate the encouragement that they give to our students. They give students an opportunity to develop the technical skills required to an occupation as well as providing personnel to assist in a student's occupational and social adjustment to the work environment.
 
High School Career Programs:
For the year 2000/2001, we will be reinforcing work-based learning through partnerships and mentors. Vocational teachers must also develop curriculum, instruction techniques and assessment methods that link academic and vocational instruction and connect school-based and work-based learning. Ideally, all students that participate in this program will feel the wave of the future.
 
Post Secondary Programs:

Our High School Program serves as a feeder school that provides students an opportunity to broaden their career awareness and practice skills and apply theory learned in the classroom to actual work settings and to develop positive work habits and attitudes to Colleges, Universities, Trade and Technology schools and the Military.


Goals

North Slope Borough School District - Vocational Education. We are striving to bring our curriculum into concert with the requirements for employment

In its broadest form, our Vocational Education program is designed to accomplish a number of goals. From the viewpoint of curriculum design, the most important include the following:

  1. To provide meaningful educational program alternatives for students who are not well served by existing secondary and postsecondary curricula.
  2. To prepare students for employment upon high school graduation as well as later in life.
  3. To prepare students for education beyond high school, also in apprenticeships, on the job training and continuing education.
  4. To attract more students into careers in health, and process technology, and other areas that require less than baccalaureate preparation.
  5. To facilitate the movement of students from high school through close linkages with Ilisagvik College.
  6. To give students the necessary educational preparation to accept further training.
  7. To strengthen secondary vocational programs through increased academic content, thus bringing students to a higher level of education that will enable them to adapt to new vocational technology as we update our vocational equipment.
  8. To use instructional methods in traditional academic areas that will encourage success in students representing a wide range of learning styles.
  9. To maximize flexibility in choices in educational and career paths while focusing in on concentrated areas of study.
  10. Integrate project goals and objectives into all aspects of the curriculum to the greatest extent possible.
  11. To strengthen certification options with more advanced content
  12. To stimulate and apply leverage to make the changes in educational practices that are needed in order to respond to economic changes and the work force needs in our area, especially those brought about by the Industrial and Engineering, (Process Technology) and the Health Care Industry.