Rigorous and Relevant CTE Courses and Pathways for Today’s Students
With more careers than ever requiring specialized training, the demand for Career and Technical Education (CTE) is growing exponentially.
Edgenuity provides a catalog of highly-relevant CTE courses that empower students to explore their interests by engaging with learning experiences across different careers and industries – including multi-year support for high-demand, high-interest careers. Students have the opportunity to explore career interests or concentrate their study within career pathways that help prepare them for industry-recognized certification exams or more advanced study and training. Edgenuity’s CTE courses support student success in school and after graduation.
Career and Technical Education Proven to Support Student Success
- Increase graduation rates
- Improve academic outcomes
- Support post-secondary transitions
- Engage students with highly relevant career exploration and focused career pathway courses
- Rigorous content promotes deep understanding and application through career-related tasks and projects
- Increase economic prospects
Empower Students to Explore Career Interests
Edgenuity’s career and technical education courses promote deep understanding and application through career-related tasks and projects.
Our CTE courses combine high-quality instruction with real-world examples that invite students to pursue interests spanning business, health sciences, engineering, arts, communications, information technology, entrepreneurship opportunities, and more. Hands-on projects enable students to apply and synthesize learning as they:
- Design a board game that incorporates each of Erik Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development
- Design a tour company, incorporating all aspects of marketing, business, and logistics
- Discuss building LEED scores with builders or architects in their town or city
- Use 3D software modeling tools to design a simple product
- Establish a blog community or web page
- Create a sketch model of a toy for pets
- Develop a 3D video game
Edgenuity Career Clusters
Edgenuity CTE course offerings provide more than 100 career-focused course options*.
The courses available through Edgenuity’s platform address all 16 Career Clusters® identified by Advance CTE**:
- Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources
- Architecture & Construction
- Arts, A/V Technology & Communications
- Business Management & Administration
- Education and Training
- Finance
- Government & Public Administration
- Health Science
- Hospitality & Tourism<
- Human Services
- Information Technology
- Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
- Manufacturing
- Marketing
- Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)
- Transportation, Distribution & Logistics
Edgenuity Career Pathways
The wide variety of courses available through Edgenuity include hands-on, career-based projects and problem solving. These courses support career exploration, while also allowing students to deepen their experience by taking multiple related courses, including enrollment in a set of courses that are mapped to national Career Pathways**.
National Career Pathways** define the knowledge and skills students need to prepare for a specific focused career direction. Edgenuity CTE courses map to learning priorities defined for these pathways:
Multi-course sequences for career entry
Students who focus their study and pass an industry-recognized certification exam can use their completion certificate to demonstrate they have achieved the level of skill and knowledge required for job entry or as part of more comprehensive career or credential preparation.
Certification exams are administered and scored by entities such as the National Occupational Competency Testing Institute (NOCTI®)***.
Edgenuity has identified a set of courses that have been mapped to popular certification exams to help students prepare for exams across high demand career interests including exams in the following clusters:
- Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources
- Business Management & Administration
- Health Science
- Hospitality & Tourism
- Human Services
- Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
*Edgenuity offers a set of more than 75 CTE Electives in our Enhanced CTE library along with a broad set of relevant core and general elective courses that support students in preparing for college and career readiness. In addition, Edgenuity offers a suite of eDynamic Learning electives on a subscription basis, allowing students to pursue a large range of interests in language arts, creative arts, STEM, and CTE. The eDynamic Learning electives are priced separately by enrollment. **Advance CTE is a national non-profit organization representing state CTE professionals. Advance CTE developed the Career Clusters Framework® which includes commonly referenced Career Clusters and Career Pathways. ***Edgenuity does not provide certification exams.
