Courses of Study : Career Tech: Career Cluster Electives

1 ) Demonstrate knowledge of a systematic approach to a decision-making process (specifically, opportunity costs and trade-offs), including factors regarding academic planning and career development, financial literacy, and technology.

2 ) Understand the effect of workplace behaviors.

3 ) Analyze personal skills, interests, and abilities and relate them to current career opportunities.

4 ) Determine the correlation of personal preference, education, and training to the demands of the workforce.

5 ) Investigate the postsecondary/higher education admissions process, including completing admission and financial aid applications (e.g., Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), grants, loans, scholarships, personal financing).

6 ) Examine the employment process, including searching for a job, filling out a job application, writing a r ésum é, developing and practicing interview skills, and completing required employment forms (e.g., W-4, I-9).

7 ) Generate an electronic portfolio using digital tools (e.g., Webpage, wikis, blogs, podcast), including a cover letter; a current résumé; a completed job application; interest, aptitude, and achievement assessment results; curriculum samples (e.g., academic research, educational projects); four-year high school educational plan; education/career preparedness checklist; and other examples of academic and career preparedness achievements (e.g., student organizations, club memberships, honors, credentials, certificates, awards, community service experiences, recommendations).

8 ) Diagnose problems with hardware, software, and advanced network systems.

9 ) Demonstrate advanced technology skills, including compressing, converting, importing, exporting, backing up files, and transferring data among applications.

10 ) Compare functions of various operating systems.

11 ) Analyze cultural, social, economic, environmental, and political effects, and trends of technology to assess emerging technologies and forecast innovations.

12 ) Demonstrate appropriate digital citizenship through safe, ethical, and legal use of technology systems and digital content.

13 ) Utilize an online learning-management system to engage in collaborative learning projects, discussions, and assessments beyond the traditional classroom that are goal-oriented, focused, project-based, and inquiry-oriented.

14 ) Explain specific steps that consumers can take to minimize exposure to identity theft, fraudulent schemes, unethical sales practices, and exorbitant service fees.

15 ) Develop a plan for managing earning, spending, saving, and giving using spreadsheets, online resources, or commercial software.

16 ) Evaluate the effect of personal preferences, advertising, marketing, peer pressure, and family history on consumer choices and decision making in the marketplace.

17 ) Distinguish differences between the purpose of saving and the objectives associated with investing

18 ) Analyze various types of financial institutions.

19 ) Demonstrate how to manage checking and savings accounts, balance bank statements, and use online financial services.

20 ) Determine advantages and disadvantages of using credit.

21 ) Examine why credit ratings and credit reports are important to consumers.

22 ) Determine the type of insurance associated with different types of risks, including automobile, personal and professional liability, home, apartment, property, health, life, long-term care, and disability.

23 ) Develop a plan for financial security in the event of disaster, including secure storage of financial records and personal documents, available cash reserve, household inventory list, and medical records retention.