Students that do not reach those benchmarks take a cluster of three career courses and must earn an industry certification in a field to earn their diploma.
In a nutshell that sounds great, but in reality our career pathways are fairly limited overall. On top of that journalism is not a recognized pathway. Under a business pathway webmaster is recognized with students earning an industry certification for Adobe Dreamweaver.
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I have been told numerous times by eveyone from our principal up to the superintendent that journalism is the class that provides the best avenue for career readiness coupled with college readiness.
Our career coach is working hard to petition the state to add a journalism pathway. The deeper we get into it though, the more I wonder what would be the end goal. Just think of all of the potential avenues: Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Reporter, Business, Marketing...
Tough to pin down your craft when you feel like you teach everything.
Larry Steinmetz
Bullitt East High School
Mount Washington, KY
Journalism really does meet many of the College and Career Readiness standards.
ReplyDeleteIt can be overwhelming to be responsible for teaching the various skills required, but how exciting it is for journalism teachers!
As a journalism teacher, you know your students are ready to leave high school because they have capabilities, learned from your class, that will serve them well, no matter what career field they choose.
The biggest asset to getting that journalism pathway established just might be the variety offered...
Lisa Cass
Independence HS
Glendale, Arizona
The ability to collect, scrutinize, synthesize and communicate information is of tremendous value. I have students working in all kinds of fields because they left the Cronkite School able to do that. When I got my night school MBA, the advisers said the social science folks usually excelled because they could do those things. And I could get the engineers and accountants to do the hard math for me on group projects in exchange for me delivering the info. Anyway, I hope it works out there.
ReplyDeleteSteve Elliott
Arizona State University
Phoenix