Our Mission Statement
The Southwest Vermont Career Development Center is committed to preparing secondary and post secondary students for career and lifelong learning in a rapidly changing world.
PHILOSOPHY
We believe that:
- Every individual has a need for and a right to career and technical education.
- Career and Technical Education happens best when the learning environment is safe, caring and respectful.
- Each student has unique talents, interests and needs, and comes to the Career Development Center with diverse cultural, social, moral and ethical beliefs.
- Career and Technical Education must be active and experiential, an integration of academic and technical skills, and offered to each student without regard to the student’s gender, cultural, social, economic, sexual orientation, or other background.
- Career and Technical Education must be actively engaged in authentic relationships with the larger community to develop standards and assessments that reflect the needs of the employer community and the pursuit of further education.
- Career and Technical Educators are partners with the home and the larger community as we strive to develop informed, responsible, and participating members of society.
- The Career Development Center encourages all students to develop to their fullest capacity and to achieve their life goals.
GOALS
The following goals are identified as supporting the mission statement and philosophy:
- To help learners work both as a team and think independently, complete skill and safety competencies, and be self-directed with their education and career goals.
- To encourage students to participate in student leadership organizations and opportunities.
- To foster student awareness of their role as citizens of communities by participation in community service experiences.
- To promote student participation in workplace based experiences (e.g. co-op, student apprenticeships, internships, job shadowing, field trips and guest speakers) for applied learning and career exploration.
- To provide continuing education for the community and workforce development opportunities for the unemployed, incumbent workers, corporate partners, and entrepreneurs.
- To promote teaching that recognizes differences in learning styles and uses a wide variety of methods.
- To provide curricula and instruction that integrates academic, technical, interpersonal, and other competencies with industry standards, entrepreneurial opportunities, and higher education requirements.
- To frequently evaluate goals, programs and performance in order to make continuous quality improvement in career and technical education for students.
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