CTE Curriculum
WCPSS Courses
Blueprints lay out the framework of the curriculum for a given course. The blueprint includes units of instruction, competencies in each unit, and the specific objectives for each competency. The blueprint illustrates the relative weight of the units, competencies, and objectives within the course.
Pacing Guides are a plan for delivering the curiculum over a set period of time.
Course (Curriculum) Guides contain activities and resources for each objective listed in the course blueprint.
CMS Item Bank is a database of test items that are similar to those found on the state postassessments for CTE courses.
Curriculum Resources
Information relevent to each CTE curricular area. This also includes summer conference updates.
WCPSS HS/MS Program Planning Guides
The Program Planning Guides contain graduation requirements, promotion requirements, and a description of all courses offered.
North Carolina Standard Course of Study
The State of North Carolina developed a Standard Course of Study, which provides every content area a set of competencies for each grade and high school course. Its intent is to ensure rigorous student academic performance standards that are uniform across the state.
Future Ready Core graduation requirements for students entering ninth grade in Fall 2009 or later.
CTE Standard Course of Study Guide (PDF 12.8 MB)
Status of Curriculum
Charts of revision dates for the CTE Blueprints, Course Guides and Item Banks.
- Agricultural Education
- Business and Information Technology Education
- Career Development Education
- Family and Consumer Sciences Education
- Health Occupations Education
- Marketing Education
- Technology Education
- Trade and Industrial Education
The latest revision date for the Pacing Guides can be found here.
Advanced Studies Courses
The Advanced Studies Implementation Guide is a guide for advanced studies courses in each CTE area. Contains information about projects, presentations, portfolios, etc.
Advanced Studies Marketing Video (WMV 37.6 MB)
CTE Honors Courses
CTE offers several honor-level courses
Revised Bloom's Taxonomy (RBT)
All of our curriculum is being remapped to Revised Bloom's Taxonomy (RBT). We've already begun to revise program area curriculum guides, pacing guides, and test banks utilizing this process.
Dr. Lorin Anderson, the guru of Revised Bloom's Taxonomy (RBT) created the following PowerPoint presentations just for us.
- Motivating the Unmotivated: Alternatives to Simply Killing Them (PPT 148 KB)
- The Concept of Flow and Its Educational Applications (PPT 608 KB)
- VoCATS Summer Conference (PPT 176 KB)
Career Clusters
Career Clusters document from DPI (PDF 184 KB)
Career Pathways Courses (PDF 28 KB) for students entering ninth grade before Fall 2009.
Internships
An Internship is an experience where a high school student learns by taking on a responsible role as a worker in a company or organization and then observing and reflecting on what happened while they were in the workplace.
Apprenticeships
The apprenticeship program combines on-the-job training with invaluable classroom instruction. This multi-year program leads to industry-recognized certification.
Cooperative Education
Cooperative Education is coordinated on-the-job training that connects school-based learning to the workplace.
Community College Courses
There are many different ways of earning community college credit while in high school.
This page was last updated on January 28, 2009