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DCHS Pathways in CTAE

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■ Business and Computer Science

Financial Management - Services Career Pathway
■ Business and Computer Science

The financial services industry includes a wide variety of occupational fields, including banking, insurance, real estate, investment, and personal wealth management. Financial managers, loan officers, credit analysts, and financial counselors make recommendations and provide investment guidance for both individuals and businesses. Treasures, comptrollers, and Chief Financial Officers plan and direct the financial activities of an organization at the highest level of management. Personal financial advisors use their knowledge of investments, tax laws, and insurance to help individuals plan for and meet short- and long-term goals. They work in offices or their own homes and travel frequently to visit companies or potential investors. Overall, employment of financial analysts and personal financial advisors is expected to increase much faster than average.

The insurance industry is a major employer of actuaries, who forecast risk and liability based upon examination of mortality, accident, sickness, and disability data. Actuaries are primarily located in large urban areas. The insurance industry also employs insurance appraisers and adjustors, who determine the extent of a company's liability concerning personal, casualty, and property loss or damage. The insurance industry should continue to be a stable source of employment. Securities and commodities sales agents (also called stock brokers) buy and sell securities in investment and trading firms. They advise securities customers (both individuals and businesses) about such things as stocks, bonds, and market laws and practices. The state of the economy determines the rise and fall of jobs in this area. As the population grows and incomes increase, however, there will continue to be demand for financial services in securities and commodities.

Course Titles

06.41600 Business Essentials (needs document path

Class to Take in the 1st year

Business Essentials is a foundations course for the Small Business Development Career Pathway. It is also appropriate for students enrolled in any Career Pathway who plan to own and operate their own businesses. The course will help students build a strong knowledge base and develop management skills as they study forms of business ownership, functions of management, budgeting and finance, technology, communications, legislation, leadership and teamwork, marketing, and economics. Mastery of these standards through project-based learning and leadership development activities of the Career and Technical Student Organizations will help prepare students with a competitive edge for the global marketplace.

07.42110 Banking and Investing

Class to Take in the 2nd year

Using project-based instruction, students are introduced to the basics of the banking system, bank operating procedures, negotiable instruments, and the deposit and credit functions of banks. Methods used for measuring the financial performance of banks are analyzed. Current issues and future trends in banking are examined. Students explore the major functions of bank employees by completing a flow-of-work simulation. Students formulate business and individual investment decisions by comparing and contrasting a variety of investment options. Students analyze annual reports, predict growth rates, and chart trend lines. Business partnerships with community banks, investment firms, stock market simulations, guest speakers, field trips, and work-based learning activities can be incorporated in this course. Competencies for the co-curricular student organization Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) are integral components of the performance standards. FBLA activities should be incorporated throughout instructional strategies developed for the course.
Prerequisite for Financial Management - Services Pathway: Business Essentials

07.42300 Insurance and Risk Management

Class to Take in the 3rd year

Using project-based instruction, students analyze risk management techniques from the viewpoints of those employed in the industry as well as from business owners seeking to meet risk management needs. Insurance products are evaluated in relation to cost and effectiveness. The importance of ethical practices is emphasized. Business partnerships with risk management companies, guest speakers, field trips, and work-based learning activities can be incorporated in this course. Mastery of standards through project-based learning and leadership development activities of Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) will help prepare students with a competitive edge for the global marketplace.
Prerequisite for Financial Management - Services Pathway: Business Essentials

Interactive Media Career Pathway
■ Business and Computer Science

Careers in interactive media involve creating, designing and producing interactive multimedia products and services, including the development of digitally-generated or computer-enhanced media used in business, training, entertainment, communications and marketing. Sample interactive media occupations include web designer, webmaster, 3d animator, virtual reality specialist, multimedia producer and graphic artist.

Organizations of all types and sizes use digital media (the Word Wide Web, CD-ROM, DVD) to communicate with existing and potential customers, to track transactions and to collaborate with colleagues. Interactive media experts can find employment opportunities in organizations of all sizes and types, doing work such as creating e-business auction web sites that allow people around the world to buy and sell items in real-time.

Job prospects in the motion picture and video industry are excellent for multimedia artists and animators, film and video editors and others skilled in digital filming and computer generated imaging. Graphic designers with Web site design and animation experience will have good job opportunities also. A bachelor’s degree is required for most entry-level positions. However, an associate’s degree may be sufficient for technical positions.

Course Titles

11.41300 Computing in the Modern World

Class to Take in the 1st year

The goal of this course is to provide all students with an introduction to the principles of computer science and its place in the modern world. This course should also help students to use computers effectively in their lives, thus providing a foundation for successfully integrating their own interests and careers with the resources of a technological society. In this course, high school students can acquire a fundamental understanding of the operation of computers and computer networks and create useful programs implementing simple algorithms. By developing Web pages that include images, sound, and text, they can acquire a working understanding of the Internet, common formats for data transmission, and some insights into the design of the human-computer interface. Exposure to career possibilities and discussion of ethical issues relating to computers should also be important threads in this course.

11.43100 Fundamentals of Web Design

Class to Take in the 2nd year

Fundamentals of Web Design is the second course in the Interactive Media Career Pathway. This course will provide students with essential web page planning and development skills. Students will learn to write code manually and use graphical authoring tools. Students will also learn to work with web page layout and graphical elements, including images, hyperlinks, tables, forms, and frames. Mastery of these standards through project-based learning and leadership development activities of Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) will help prepare students with a competitive edge for the global marketplace.

11.43200 Advanced Web Design

Class to Take in the 3rd year

The goal of this course is to provide students with the study of advanced topics in web design. Computer in the Modern World and Beginning Web Design are both prerequisites for this course. Upon completion of this course, students should have a thorough knowledge of all areas of web page design. Topics include the web development process, advanced layout and design features, advanced study of scripting languages, site development with HTML editors, and web servers and databases. This course also prepares students to take the CIW Associate Design Specialist Certification.

■ Engineering Drawing and Design
■ JROTC
■ Cosmetology/Barbering
■ Marketing, Sales and Service
■ Education

Teaching as a Profession Career Pathway

Educational services are the second largest industry, accounting for about 13 million jobs. The educational services industry includes a variety of institutions that offer academic education, vocational or career and technical instruction and other education and training to millions of students each year. Institutions include elementary, middle and secondary schools, universities, colleges, professional schools, community or junior colleges and career and technical institutes.
School and working conditions often vary from town to town. Some schools may have few supplies and equipment while some are well equipped. Conditions at postsecondary institutions are generally very good. Some educational institutions operate 10 months a year while institutions that cater to adult students generally operate year-round. Many teachers spend significant time outside of school preparing for class, doing administrative tasks, conducting research, writing articles and books and pursuing advanced degrees.

Kindergarten, elementary and secondary school teachers in public schools must have a bachelor’s degree and must be licensed. Teachers in private elementary, middle and secondary schools do not have to be licensed. Postsecondary teachers who teach at 4-year colleges and universities generally must have a doctoral degree. Vocational or career and technical education teachers typically need work or other experience in their field and may need to be licensed in that field. The overall demand for workers in educational services will increase as a result of a growing emphasis on improving education and making it available to more people. Retirements will also create large numbers of job openings.

Course Titles

13.01100 Examining the Teaching Profession
Examining the Teaching Profession prepares candidates for future positions in the field of education. Teaching Profession candidates study, apply, and practice the use of current technologies, effective teaching and learning strategies, the creation of an effective learning environment, the creation of instructional opportunities for diverse learners and students with special needs, and plan instruction based on knowledge of subject matter, students, community, and curriculum performance standards.

Candidates will be prepared to practice their skills and knowledge at a variety of elementary and secondary education sites. Mastery of standards through project based learning, technical skills practice, and leadership development activities of the career and technical student organizations will provide students with a competitive edge for either entry into the education global marketplace and/or the post-secondary institution of their choice to continue their education and training.

13.01200 Contemporary Issues in Education
This course engages the candidate in observations, interactions, and analyses of critical and contemporary educational issues. The candidate will investigate issues influencing the social and political contexts of educational settings in Georgia and the United States and actively examines the teaching profession from multiple vantage points both within and outside of the school. Against this backdrop, the candidate will reflect on and interpret the meaning of education and schooling in a diverse culture and examine the moral and ethical responsibilities of teaching in a democracy. (Mastery of standards through project based learning, technical skills practice, and leadership development activities of the career and technical student organization Future Educators of America (FEA) will provide students with a competitive edge for either entry into the education global marketplace and/or the post-secondary institution of their choice to continue their education and training.)

13.52100 Teaching as a Profession Internship
The internship offers a candidate in the Teaching as a Profession career pathway a field experience under the direct supervision of a certified teacher (mentor teacher). The internship stresses observing, analyzing, and classifying activities of the mentor teacher and comparing personal traits with those of successful teachers. The candidate intern will develop a portfolio of their skills, plan and teach a lesson or lessons, understand and practice confidentiality as it pertains to the teaching profession, meet the needs of special education students, maintain the safety of the students and practice professionalism and ethical behavior.

The DCSS CTAE Department offer 27 pathways are offered in the following career concentrations:

■ Agriculture
■ Architecture
■ Construction
■ Communications and Transportation
■ Business and Computer Science
■ Culinary Arts
■ Education
■ Engineering and Technology
■ Family and Consumer Sciences
■ Government and Public Safety
■ Healthcare Science
■ Marketing, Sales and Service
■ JROTC
■ Horticulture
■ Law
■ Welding
■ Engineering Drawing and Design
■ Early Childhood Education
■ Healthcare
■ Culinary Arts
■ Food Science

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