Vocational education

Continuing professional development (CPD) CPD is a term used to describe the opportunities in which individuals will take in order to develop and enhance their skills and abilities and it is the process of monitoring and documenting these skills and experience that are acquired either formally within the workplace or informally referring to elsewhere oppose to within their working environment. These skills may have been gained over the likes of training, and this process helps individuals to…

J.J. to independently complete each step necessary for going to work, carrying out tasks at work, residing in an assisted living community, and being able to efficiently perform daily living activities. The work environment includes the Board of Education mail room, county vehicle, and local schools. J.J.’s roles have included mail sorter, delivery person, and transportation assistant. Tasks included in the role include sorting incoming mail and putting them in the appropriate boxes/bin, collect…

My church has many opportunities to get involved, while looking at theses opportunities I chose the ones that fit myself best. These consist of being a youth worker in the nursery and participating in teaching sunday school during church services. If I could change anything it would be to volunteer more in the kitchen and in the summer programs. This would let me fellowship and grow with other believers. This summer I worked as a youth worker for a concert where I helped prepare food and brought…

Vocational programs, the only classes that truly grant students with the freedom to learn on their own. Not only are they valued for their education, but also their ability to teach hands-on experience. In a world as complex as ours nothing is more important than that of understanding and mastering a skill. The skills taught by these classes are irreplaceable yet schools are blocking them from our common curriculum. Imagine a child, a child who not only succeeds in vocational programs but…

Career Technical Education High school drop-out. The title that no child grows up wanting, a title all parents fear for their children. As stated on the National Center for Education Statistics website, school drop-out rates in the US have decreased greatly in recent years. Will high school drop-out rates ever cease to exist though? Career technical education programs create better applicants for jobs by increasing job specific training, showing students exactly the kind of work involved, and…

Before I entered college, I never asked myself why I wanted to go on to higher education. I just assumed it was normal to go on to postsecondary education, just like my older brothers and my parents did. Not even once did my high school councilors talk to my class about alternative education, it was always college, college, college, from day one. So in turn, I never pondered the questions; where am I going?, why am I doing this?,or, what is the purpose of all this? As Alina Tugend, New York…

with Robert T. Perry writing, “On “Real Education” with the belief that the United States of America needs more college-educated workers than ever and Charles Murray stating that there are too many college students going into college. With two viewpoints, both focus on the issues of if college education is for everyone and if students are willing to go into college to compete with the foreign competitors. An article called,” On “Real Education,” appeared on InsideHigherEd.com…

presenting examples of his own personal experiences. Charles Murray is a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and author of the article “What’s wrong with vocational school?” Murray discusses his worries about the overpopulation of college and the fact that some people feel socially obliged to attend college even though vocational schools can provide the skills they truly want to acquire. Overall, the main issues here are why college is overpopulated (as…

Each year, an estimated 100,000 fake college degrees are sold in the United States, according to George Gollin, a board member of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (Tutton, 2010). Certainly, this poses a monumental problem for hiring managers and is demonstrative of a greater problem of misrepresentation in the labor supply. In a tense economy with pronounced competition between applicants for gainful employment, some individuals resort to lying on their applications about things…

In America, individuals who cope with a disability have had a long struggle for equality. In the 1800s many did not believe persons with disability were capable of living independently. According to the ASHE Higher Education Report (2013), society viewed persons with disability as incapable of thinking, learning, or achieving goals. Persons with disability were considered a disgrace and spent their entire lives in institutions or asylums for “purification”, because they were seen as unclean…