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Table of Contents 2 Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources 14Table of Contents 4 Environmental Science System 14Helpful Internet Tools for Finding a Career Pathway Environmental Science System............................ 14D214 School Information College Counselors Contact Information 5 Food Products and Processing Systems 15Introduction and Definitions Career Pathway Page Sample 5 Food Products and Processing Systems............... 15D214 Career Clusters and Pathways Core Curriculum 6 Plant and Animal Systems 16 7 Plant and Animal Systems ................................... 16 Power, Structural and Technical Systems 17 8 Power, Structural and Technical Systems............. 17 12 Architecture and Construction 19 Construction 20 Building Trades .................................................... 20 Design/Pre-Construction 21 Architecture......................................................... 21 Arts, Audio/Video Technology and Communications 23 Audio/Visual (A/V) Technology and Film 24 Audio/Visual (A/V) Technology and Film............... 24 Communications 25 Writer/Author/Editor.............................................. 25 Journalism and Broadcasting 26 Journalism and Broadcasting............................... 26 Printing Technology – Visual Arts 27 Graphic Arts......................................................... 27 Visual Arts 28 Art (2-D Painting and Drawing; 3-D Jewelry......... 28 and Sculpture) Photography......................................................... 29 Performing Arts 30 Acting and Technical Theater............................... 30 Band..................................................................... 31 Choir.................................................................... 32 Dance................................................................... 33 Orchestra............................................................. 34 Business Management and Administration 35 Business Management and Administration 36 Business Management and Administration........... 36Career Pathway Guide 2017 | 2018 2 High School District 214
Education and Training 37 Law, Public Safety, Corrections and Security 59Teaching/Training 38 Law Enforcement Services/Early Childhood Education.................................... 38Primary Education................................................ 39 Corrections Services 60Secondary Education............................................ 40 Criminal Justice.................................................... 60Finance 41 Emergency and Fire Management Services 61 Emergency and Fire Management Services.......... 61Finance 42 Legal Services 62Finance................................................................ 42 Legal Services...................................................... 62Government and Public Administration 43 Manufacturing 63Foreign Service 44 Production 64 Fashion Construction............................................ 64Foreign Service.................................................... 44Governance and Public Management Production 65 Manufacturing...................................................... 65and Administration 45Governance and Public Management.................... 45 Marketing 67and Administration Marketing 68 Marketing............................................................. 68Health Science 47Health Science 48 Science, Engineering and Mathematics 69Health Science..................................................... 48 Engineering and Technology 70Hospitality and Tourism 49 Engineering ......................................................... 70Restaurants and Food/Beverage Services 50 Science and Mathematics 71Culinary Arts........................................................ 50 Science Research and Development..................... 71Human Services 51 Social Science Research and Development.......... 72Counseling and Mental Health Services 52 Mathematics........................................................ 73Counseling and Mental Health Services................ 52 Transportation, Distribution and Logistics 75Personal Care Services 53 Facility and Mobile Equipment Maintenance 76 Automotive Service.............................................. 76Cosmetology........................................................ 53 Aviation................................................................ 77 Heating, Ventilation and Air ConditioningPersonal Care Services 54 (HVAC).................................................................. 78Personal Training.................................................. 54Information Technology 55Network Systems/Information Supportand Services 56Network Systems/Information Support................. 56and ServicesProgramming and Software Development 57Programming and Software Development............ 57Career Pathway Guide 2017 | 2018 3 High School District 214
Helpful Internet Tools for Finding a Career Pathway Career Cruising is an Internet- based career exploration and planning tool used by students to explore career and college options and develop a career plan. Features of the program include: Assessments, Career Profiles, Multimedia Interviews and College/University and Apprenticeship Information. www.careercruising.com Naviance is a college and career readiness platform that helps connect academic achievement to post-secondary goals. It also allows students to create a plan for their futures by helping them discover their individual strengths and learning styles and explore college and career options based on their results. www.naviance.comStudent can set up their own Career Cruising and Naviance accounts.Please see your counselor or career advisor for more information.Career Pathway Guide 2017 | 2018 4 High School District 214
D214 School Information Prospect High School 801 West Kensington RoadHigh School District 214 Mount Prospect, IL 600562121 South Goebbert Road 847-718-5200 | phs.d214.orgArlington Heights, IL 60005847-718-7600 | www.d214.org Rolling Meadows High School 2901 West Central RoadBuffalo Grove High School Rolling Meadows, IL 600081100 West Dundee Road 847-718-5600 | rmhs.d214.orgBuffalo Grove, IL 60089847-718-4000 | bghs.d214.org The Academy at Forest View 2121 South Goebbert RoadElk Grove High School Arlington Heights, IL 60005500 West Elk Grove Boulevard 847-718-7772 | theacademy.d214.orgElk Grove Village, IL 60007847-718-4400 | eghs.d214.org Vanguard School 2121 South Goebbert RoadJohn Hersey High School Arlington Heights, IL 600051900 East Thomas Street 847-718-7870 | vanguard.d214.orgArlington Heights, IL 60004847-718-4800 | jhhs.d214.org Wheeling High School 900 South Elmhurst RoadNewcomer Center Wheeling, IL 600902121 South Goebbert Road 847-718-7000 | whs.d214.orgArlington Heights, IL 60005847-718-7937 | nc.d214.orgCollege Counselors Contact InformationCollege Counselors Nancy Davis Paul Genovese 847-718-4846 847-718-4441Joanne Amador-Zapata [email protected] [email protected]@d214.org Kara Fisher Anthony Miocic 847-718-5660 847-718-4441Diane Bourn [email protected] [email protected]@d214.orgCareer Pathway Guide 2017 | 2018 5 High School District 214
Introduction and DefinitionsDistrict 214 uses the following nationally recognized terms to help guide studentsthrough the selection of coursework and to support their decision making in preparationfor their post-secondary goals.Career Cluster: Group of occupations and industries that have a set of foundational knowledgeand skills in common. There are 16 nationally recognized career clusters which each containmultiple career pathways.Career Pathway: Multi-year program of academic and technical study that prepares studentsfor a full range of post-secondary options within each career cluster. Career pathways providea context for exploring career options at all levels of education. Career pathways link studentlearning to the knowledge and skills needed for future education and employment.Program of Study: Sequence of courses and experiences which include core academic, careerand technical education content. Programs of study include opportunities to earn college creditand industry-recognized credentials or certificates and gain external career experiences whilein high school. Programs of study also may lead to a student earning a college degree.Within each District 214 Program of Study the following terms are used to describecoursework and opportunities which align with that career area.Pathway Courses: Recommended sequence of courses which provide students opportunitiesto explore and develop skills within a specified career area.Related Electives: Courses which provide students additional opportunities within the specifiedcareer area or opportunities to develop skills and knowledge in a closely related career area.Workplace Learning Experiences: Extended educational opportunities in which students engagein authentic and relevant work aligned with a career pathway. These experiences allow studentsto participate in a professional work environment and assist with career skill development anddecision making. These opportunities may provide varied levels of support, depending uponstudents’ individual needs.Career Related Activities: Opportunities for student career exploration and/or career skilldevelopment which may include the involvement of industry partners. These opportunities aregenerally less formal and/or intensive than Workplace Learning Experiences in the areas of careerexploration and/or career skill development.Certifications: Credentials awarded to students by an independent third party verifying qualificationsor competencies in a career skill area. Industry-recognized certifications are sought or acceptedby employers as a recognized, preferred or required credentials for recruitment, screening, hiring,retention or advancement purposes of their employees.College Majors: College majors are concentrations of educational study focused on a career area.College majors can lead to an associate, bachelor, master, or doctorate degree. In this document,a sample of majors related to each program of study is listed.Careers: Careers are occupations which usually require special training or formal education.In this document, a sample of careers related to each program of study is listed.Career Pathway Guide 2017 | 2018 6 High School District 214
Career Pathway Page Sample Related ElectivesCareer Cluster CertificationsCareer Pathway College MajorsProgram of StudyPathway Courses CareersCareer Related ActivitiesWorkplace LearningExperiencesCertificationsCareer Pathway Guide 2017 | 2018 7 High School District 214
D214 Career Clusters and PathwaysFinding the best way for students to learn and The National Career Clusters® Frameworkachieve success is of utmost importance to the is comprised of 16 Career Clusters and relatedState of Illinois and the nation as a whole. College Career Pathways to help students explore differentand career success is critical to our national and career options and better prepare for collegestate economy and has become a national priority. and career.The Career Clusters and related Career Pathways The Sixteen Career Clustersserve as an organizing tool for schools, smalllearning communities, academies and magnet Agriculture, Food and Natural Resourcesschools to develop more effective programs of Architecture and Constructionstudy and curriculum. Arts, Audio/Video Technology and CommunicationsEssential Knowledge and Skills Business Management and AdministrationThe cluster level knowledge and skills set is built on Education and Traininga common core required for career success in the Financemultiple occupations included in the cluster. Government and Public Administration Health ScienceCareer and Technical Education (CTE) has been Hospitality and Tourismcentral to this call for greater college completion Human Servicesand the credentials that CTE provides to both Information Technologytraditional and nontraditional student populations Law Enforcement Services/and has emerged as one of the most important Corrections Serviceselements in the completion agenda throughoutthe country. Manufacturing MarketingThe Five CTE Areas Science, Technology, Engineering Agricultural Education and Mathematics Business, Marketing and Computer Education Family and Consumer Sciences Transportation, Distribution and Logistics Health Sciences Technology Technology and Engineering Education Essential CTE Areas: Career ProgramsKnowledge Secondary Clusters of Studyand Skills (5) (16) (44)Career Pathway Guide 2017 | 2018 8 High School District 214
Agricultural Education Technology and Engineering EducationAgriculture, Food and Natural Resources Architecture and Construction Environmental Science Systems Construction: Building Trades Food Products and Processing Systems Design/Pre-Construction: Architecture Plant and Animal Systems Power, Structural and Technical Systems Arts, Audio/Video Technology and CommunicationsBusiness, Marketing and Computer Education Audio/Video Technology and Film Communications: Writer/Author/EditorBusiness Management and Administration Journalism and Broadcasting Business Management and Administration Performing Arts: Acting and Technical TheaterFinance Performing Arts: Band Finance Performing Arts: ChoirGovernment and Public Administration Performing Arts: Dance Foreign Service Performing Arts: Orchestra Governance, Public Management Printing Technology/Visual Arts: Graphic Arts and Administration Visual Arts: Art (2-D Painting and Drawing/ 3-D Jewelry and Sculpture)Marketing Marketing Visual Arts: PhotographyFamily and Consumer Sciences Information Technology Network Systems/Information SupportEducation and Training and Services Teaching/Training: Early Childhood Education Teaching/Training: Primary Education Programming and Software Development Teaching/Training: Secondary EducationHospitality and Tourism Law, Public Safety, Corrections and Security Restaurants and Food/Beverage Services: Criminal Justice Culinary Arts Emergency and Fire Management Services Legal ServicesHuman Services Counseling and Mental Health Services Manufacturing Personal Care Services: Cosmetology Production: Fashion Construction Personal Care Services: Personal Training Production: ManufacturingHealth Sciences Technology Science, Technology, Engineering and MathematicsHealth Science Engineering and Technology: Engineering Health Science Science and Mathematics: Science Research and Development Science and Mathematics: Social Science Research and Development Science and Mathematics: Mathematics Transportation, Distribution and Logistics Facility and Mobile Equipment Maintenance: Automotive Service Facility and Mobile Equipment Maintenance: Aviation Facility and Mobile Equipment Maintenance: Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC)Career Pathway Guide 2017 | 2018 9 High School District 214
Preparing the Next Generationof Instructional LeadersEducator Prep is set of sequence of courses and experiences developed in cooperation withcommunity partners across primary, secondary and postsecondary education. High school studentexperiences in Educator Prep start as early as their freshmen year and can span all the way untilcollege graduation and employment as a teacher in a primary or secondary school.Integration with High School Pathways: PROGRAM PARTNERSExploring a Career in EducationEducator Prep begins with a sequence of high school courses High School District 214directed towards providing students with an orientation to High School District 214 developed the Educator Prepthe career of education, opportunities to develop skills and program and provides coordination of all program partnersknowledge required to be an educator, authentic opportunities and opportunities. District 214 delivers the initial educationto observe and teach in a variety of classroom environments, pathway curriculum and coordinates the pre-service internshipsand opportunities to gain up to several hours of early college for all students in grades 9 through 12. The District hascredit in courses related to education. Supporting students from committed to hosting pre-service interns and to providinghigh school through college to career, students continuing ongoing support and professional development opportunitiesin Educator Prep with a post-secondary partner will have the for participants at both the high school and college portionsopportunity to gain a bachelor’s degree and teaching certification of the program. District 214 guarantees student teachingrelated to their career area of interest. Students will also receive placements and employment interviews (if positions exist)continued professional support from and develop relationships for all students who successfully complete the programwith the program’s primary and secondary partners through with teacher certification in secondary education.clinicals, observations, and professional development activitieshosted at the primary and secondary sites in addition to partner District 214 has created documentation related to itsinvolvement within coursework at their postsecondary institution. 44 existing career programs of study across all 16 nationally- recognized coursework, documenting its sequence ofReturning to Our Communities to Teach coursework, career related activities, external experiences,Students continuing the Educator Prep program at the certifications, and post-secondary options for students to pursue.post-secondary level will be guaranteed a student teaching The District currently has programs of study in three areasplacement in District 214 or one of its local elementary related to education: Early Childhood Education, Elementarypartners. Upon successful completion of student teaching, Education, and Secondary Education.students will be guaranteed employment interviews withthe primary and secondary partners if openings exist.Career Pathway Guide 2017 | 2018 10 High School District 214
America’s high schools have a profound responsibility to ensure thatour nation’s students are college ready, career ready and life ready.Standardized test scores – traditionally used as the primary readinessindicator – do not always provide an accurate representation of ourstudents’ potential. Today’s students are driven by ideas and innovations.They should not be reduced down to, or defined by, a single test score. Our students are MORE than a SCORE.Redefining Ready! is a national from research by world-class organizations,campaign launched by AASA – The School more accurately reflect the educationalSuperintendents Association, to introduce landscape of the 21st century. Multiplea new multi-metric, research based metrics include Advanced Placement andapproach to determining what it means to International Baccalaureate courses,be college ready, career ready, and life ready. Algebra II, early college credits, industry credentials, attendance, and communityOur nation’s teachers and school leaders service, among others.provide students with rigorous academicprograms, personalized and career-specific To view the new readiness indicators, thelearning experiences, along with social and research source documents and add youremotional skills that prepare them to be support for the campaign add your supportglobal citizens in an ever-changing world. for the campaign, we encourage you to visit the the Redefining Ready! websiteStudents learn in a variety of ways. www.RedefiningReady.org.Therefore, they should be able todemonstrate readiness in a variety of ways. Share your stories on social media usingThe new readiness indicators, developed the hashtag #RedefiningReady.www.RedefiningReady.org #RedefiningReadyCareer Pathway Guide 2017 | 2018 11 High School District 214
Core CurriculumEnglish MathYear 1 Written and Oral Communication Year 1 Algebra Honors Written and Oral Communication Honors GeometryYear 2 World Literature and Composition Year 2 Geometry Honors World Literature and Composition Honors Advanced AlgebraYear 3 American Literature and Composition Year 3 Advanced Algebra AP English Language and Composition Pre-Calculus Year 4 AP English Literature and Composition Year 4 Calculus AB/BC English 100 College Algebra Additional literature and composition College Mathematical Applications 101 courses Math Electives Pre-CalculusScience Social ScienceYear 1 Biology Year 1 Human Geography Honors Biology AP Human GeographyYear 2 Chemistry Year 2 World History Honors Chemistry AP World HistoryYear 3 Physics Year 3 U.S. History AP Physics I AP U.S. HistoryYear 4 AP Science Elective Year 4 AP Social Science Electives College Physical Science Social Science Electives Science ElectiveCareer Pathway Guide 2017 | 2018 12 High School District 214
Agriculture, Foodand Natural ResourcesThe production, processing, marketing,distribution, financing and developmentof agricultural commodities and resourcesincluding food, fiber, wood products, naturalresources, horticulture and other plant andanimal products/resources.D214 Pathways/Programs of StudyཚཚEnvironmental Science SystemsཚཚFood Products and Processing SystemsཚཚPlant and Animal SystemsཚཚPower, Structural and Technical Systems
Agriculture, Food and Natural ResourcesEnvironmental Science SystemEnvironmental Science SystemsPathway Courses Related Electives Year 1 Biology ཚཚ AP StatisticsYear 2 Chemistry ཚཚ College EntrepreneurshipYear 3 Physics ཚཚ College Speech CommunicationYear 4 AP Environmental ScienceCareer Related Activities College Majors (examples)ཚཚ Athletics ཚཚ Environmental Control Technologies/Techniciansཚཚ Bass Fishing Club ཚཚ Environmental Engineering Technology/ ཚཚ District Career Days Environmental Technologyཚཚ District Career Nights ཚཚ Hazardous Materials Managementཚཚ District Career Treks ཚཚ Water Quality and Wastewater Treatment ཚཚ Environmental Club Management and Recyclingཚཚ Future Farmers of America Technology/TechnicianWorkplace Learning Experiences Careers (examples)ཚཚ Industry Mentorship ཚཚ Environmental Engineering Technicianཚཚ Internship ཚཚ Hazardous Materials Removal Workerཚཚ Microinternship ཚཚ Occupational Health and Safety Specialist ཚཚ Refrigeration Mechanic and Installer ཚཚ Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant and System OperatorCareer Pathway Guide 2017 | 2018 14 High School District 214
Food Products and Processing SystemsFood Products and Processing SystemsPathway Courses Related Electives Year 1 Foods 1 ཚཚ AP Statistics Foods 2 ཚཚ College EntrepreneurshipYear 2 College Culinary Arts/ProStart 1 ཚཚ College Speech CommunicationYear 3 College Culinary Arts/ProStart 2 ཚཚ Environmental ScienceYear 4 AP Chemistry AP BiologyCareer Related Activities College Majors (examples)ཚཚ Athletics ཚཚ Agricultural and Food Products Processingཚཚ Bass Fishing Club ཚཚ Agricultural Business and Managementཚཚ District Career Days ཚཚ Agricultural Business Technologyཚཚ District Career Nights ཚཚ Agricultural/Farm Supplies Retailingཚཚ District Career Treks and Wholesalingཚཚ Environmental Club ཚཚ Food Scienceཚཚ Future Farmers of America ཚཚ Food Technology and Processingཚཚ Skills USA Careers (examples)Workplace Learning Experiences ཚཚ Agricultural and Food Science Technicianཚཚ Industry Mentorship ཚཚ Agricultural Technicianཚཚ Internship ཚཚ Chemical Technicianཚཚ Microinternship ཚཚ Farm and Ranch Manager ཚཚ Food Science Technicians or TechnologistCertifications: High School ཚཚ Pest Control Workerཚཚ Food Handlerཚཚ National Restaurant Association ProStart Certificate of AchievementCareer Pathway Guide 2017 | 2018 15 High School District 214
Agriculture, Food and Natural ResourcesPlant and Animal Systems Related Electives AP BiologyPlant and Animal Systems AP Chemistry ཚཚ AP StatisticsPathway Courses ཚཚ College EntrepreneurshipYear 1 Biology ཚཚ College Speech CommunicationYear 2 Chemistry ཚཚ ZoologyYear 3 PhysicsYear 4 AP Envirnomental ScienceCareer Related Activities College Majors (examples)ཚཚ Athletics ཚཚ Agricultural and Domestic Animal Servicesཚཚ Bass Fishing Club ཚཚ Agricultural Animal Breedingཚཚ District Career Days ཚཚ Animal Health and Nutritionཚཚ District Career Nights ཚཚ Animal Sciencesཚཚ District Career Treks ཚཚ Animal Trainingཚཚ Environmental Club ཚཚ Dairy Scienceཚཚ Future Farmers of America ཚཚ Dog/Pet/Animal Grooming ཚཚ Equestrian/Equine StudiesWorkplace Learning Experiences ཚཚ Livestock Managementཚཚ Industry Mentorship ཚཚ Poultry Scienceཚཚ Internshipཚཚ Microinternship Careers (examples) ཚཚ Agricultural and Food Science TechnicianCertifications: Harper ཚཚ Agricultural Technicianཚཚ Veterinary Assistant ཚཚ Animal Breeder ཚཚ Animal Caretaker ཚཚ Animal Scientist ཚཚ Animal Trainer ཚཚ Aquacultural Manager ཚཚ Farmworker: Farm, Ranch and Aquacultural Animals ཚཚ Farming, Fishing and Forestry Worker ཚཚ Food Science Technician ཚཚ Veterinarian/Veterinarian TechnicianCareer Pathway Guide 2017 | 2018 16 High School District 214
Power, Structural and Technical SystemsPower, Structural and Technical SystemsPathway Courses Related Electives Year 1 PLTW Introduction to Engineering Design ཚཚ AP CalculusYear 2 PLTW Civil Engineering and Architecture ཚཚ AP StatisticsYear 3 AP Physics ཚཚ College Entrepreneurship AP Chemistry ཚཚ College Speech CommunicationCareer Related Activities College Majors (examples)ཚཚ Athletics ཚཚ Agricultural Mechanics and Equipment/ཚཚ Bass Fishing Club Machine Technologyཚཚ District Career Days ཚཚ Agricultural Mechanizationཚཚ District Career Nights ཚཚ Agricultural Power Machinery Operationཚཚ District Career Treksཚཚ Environmental Club Careers (examples)ཚཚ Future Farmers of America ཚཚ Agricultural Engineerཚཚ Skills USA ཚཚ Agricultural Equipment Operator ཚཚ Farm Equipment Mechanics andWorkplace Learning Experiences Service Technicianཚཚ Industry Mentorship ཚཚ Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanicཚཚ Internship ཚཚ Recycling Technicianཚཚ Microinternship ཚཚ Remote Sensing TechnicianCertifications: Harperཚཚ Alternative Electrical EnergyCareer Pathway Guide 2017 | 2018 17 High School District 214
District Level Career Courses, Programs and OpportunitiesThe following District-level courses are available to students at all schools:College Practical Architectural Construction (PAC)This program is available to students who have committed to pursuing a career in constructionand building trades. Students are provided with on-site work experience as they build a singlefamily residence. Students experience every stage of the home building process and learn toutilize the tools of carpentry and related trades.Program contact: Mr. Marc Sears ([email protected])WildStang FIRST RoboticsThis program is available to students who have committed to pursuing a career related torobotics and engineering. Students work with industry mentors to develop knowledge andskills related to robotics and participate in a variety of robotics competitions throughout theyear. This program meets after normal school hours.Program contact: Mr. Jon Wong ([email protected])Medical Science AcademyThis program is available to students who have committed to pursuing a career in the fieldof medicine. Students participate in in-class activities related to the medical field three daysper week and accompany medical professionals at community healthcare sites two daysper week.Program contact: Ms. Mollie David ([email protected])College Education AcademyThis program is available to students who have committed to a career in education. Studentslearn educational fundamentals in class two days per week and practice curriculum-basedactivities in a classroom setting at local schools three days per week.Program contact: Ms. Linda Thorson ([email protected])Naval Science/NJROTCNavy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (NJROTC) is a course in leadership, teamworkand citizenship, using studies about the Navy as a common core. Students are not membersof the military and there is no military obligation. NJROTC seeks to help develop more informedand responsible citizens, develop young leaders, maximize student opportunities and preparethem for future success.Program contacts:LCDR Jeff Morse ([email protected])CSCS Jermaine Cotillier ([email protected])Career Pathway Guide 2017 | 2018 18 High School District 214
Architectureand ConstructionDesigning, planning, managing, buildingand maintaining the built environment.D214 Pathways/Programs of StudyཚཚConstruction: Building TradesཚཚDesign/Pre-Construction: Architecture
Architecture and ConstructionConstructionBuilding TradesPathway Courses Related Electives Year 1 Woodworking 1 ཚཚ College Entrepreneurship Woodworking 2 ཚཚ College Speech CommunicationYear 2 Drafting/CAD ཚཚ Introduction to Business PLTW Introduction to Engineering Design ཚཚ Small Business Management Geometry in ConstructionYear 3 College Practical Architectural Construction – PAC Year 1Year 4 College Practical Architectural Construction – PAC Year 2Career Related Activities Certifications: Harperཚཚ Athletics ཚཚ Building Codes and Enforcementཚཚ Architecture Showcase ཚཚ Commercial Maintenanceཚཚ District Career Days ཚཚ Supervisory Maintenanceཚཚ District Career Nightsཚཚ District Career Treks College Majors (examples)ཚཚ Robot Rumble ཚཚ Building/Construction Managementཚཚ Skills USA ཚཚ Construction Engineering Technologyཚཚ WildStang FIRST Robotics ཚཚ Energy Management and Systems Technology ཚཚ Heating, Air Conditioning andWorkplace Learning Experiences Refrigeration Technologyཚཚ Industry Mentorshipཚཚ Internship Careers (examples)ཚཚ Microinternship ཚཚ Architectural Engineering Technicianཚཚ Practical Architectural Construction ཚཚ Building/Construction Finishing, Management and InspectionCertifications: High School ཚཚ Civil Engineering Technology/Technicianཚཚ WCA Machine Operation Level I: Table Saw ཚཚ Construction Engineering Technology/Technicianཚཚ WCA Machine Operation Level I: Band Saw ཚཚ Drafting CAD/CADDཚཚ WCA Machine Operation Level I: Lathe ཚཚ Electricianཚཚ WCA Machine Operation Level I: Jointer ཚཚ Heating, Air Conditioning, Ventilationཚཚ WCA Machine Operation Level I: Radial Arm Saw and Refrigeration Maintenance Technicianཚཚ WCA Machine Operation Level I: Planer ཚཚ Carpenterཚཚ WCA Machine Operation Level I: Drill Press ཚཚ Plumberཚཚ WCA Machine Operation Level I: CNC RouterCareer Pathway Guide 2017 | 2018 20 High School District 214
Design/Pre-Construction Related Electives ཚཚ AP Art HistoryArchitecture ཚཚ Art 1 ཚཚ CalculusPathway Courses ཚཚ College EntrepreneurshipYear 1 PLTW Industrial Engineering Design ཚཚ College Speech CommunicationYear 2 PLTW Civil Engineering ཚཚ Graphic Art Design and Architecture Geometry in ConstructionYear 3 PLTW Principles of Engineering DesignCareer Related Activities College Majors (examples)ཚཚ Athletics ཚཚ Architectural Draftingཚཚ Architecture Showcase ཚཚ Architectural Engineering ཚཚ District Career Days ཚཚ Architectureཚཚ District Career Nights ཚཚ CAD/CADD Drafting Technicianཚཚ District Career Treks ཚཚ Civil Drafting and Civil Engineeringཚཚ Robot Rumble ཚཚ Drafting/Design Engineering Techniciansཚཚ Skills USA ཚཚ Electrical/Electronics Draftingཚཚ WildStang FIRST Robotics ཚཚ Electrical/Electronics CAD/CADD ཚཚ Environmental Design/ArchitectureWorkplace Learning Experiences ཚཚ Mechanical Drafting CAD/CADDཚཚ Industry Mentorshipཚཚ Internship Careers (examples)ཚཚ Microinternship ཚཚ Architectsཚཚ WildStang FIRST Robotics ཚཚ Civil Draftsman ཚཚ Civil Engineering TechnicianCertifications: Harper ཚཚ Electrical and Electronics Draftsmanཚཚ AutoCAD Designer ཚཚ Engineering Technicianཚཚ Revit Architectural Designer ཚཚ Interior Designer ཚཚ Landscape Architect ཚཚ Mechanical Draftsman ཚཚ Operations Research AnalystCareer Pathway Guide 2017 | 2018 21 High School District 214
FACTSC A R E E R PATHWAY 44career pathways students can choose from in District 21495% District 214 students identifya career area of interest by graduationCareer Pathway Guide 2017 | 2018 22 High School District 214
Arts, A/V Technologyand CommunicationsDesigning, producing, exhibiting, performing,writing and publishing multimedia contentincluding visual and performing arts and design,journalism and entertainment services.D214 Pathways/Programs of StudyཚཚAudio/Visual (A/V) Technology and FilmཚཚCommunications: Writer/Author/EditorཚཚJournalism and BroadcastingཚཚPerforming Arts: Acting and Technical TheaterཚཚPerforming Arts: BandཚཚPerforming Arts: ChoirཚཚPerforming Arts: DanceཚཚPerforming Arts: OrchestraཚཚPrinting Technology/Visual Arts: Graphic ArtsཚཚVisual Arts: Art (2-D Painting and Drawing/3-D Jewelry and Sculpture)ཚཚVisual Arts: Photography
Arts, Audio/Video Technology and CommunicationsAudio/Visual (A/V) Technology and FilmAudio/Visual (A/V) Technology and FilmPathway Courses Related Electives Year 1 Media Technology 1 ཚཚ College Speech Communication Media Technology 2 ཚཚ Creative WritingYear 2 Media Technology 3 ཚཚ Graphic Arts Design Media Technology 4 ཚཚ Media AnalysisYear 3 Production and Editing I Production and Editing IICareer Related Activities College Majors (examples)ཚཚ Art Club ཚཚ Art History, Criticism and Conservationཚཚ Art Gallery ཚཚ Audiovisual Communications Technologies/ཚཚ Arts Unlimited Techniciansཚཚ Athletics ཚཚ Computer Graphicsཚཚ District Art Show ཚཚ Design and Visual Communications, Generalཚཚ District Career Days ཚཚ Drawingཚཚ District Career Nights ཚཚ Film/Video and Photographic Artsཚཚ District Career Treks ཚཚ Fine/Studio Arts, Generalཚཚ Harper Art Show ཚཚ Intermedia/Multimediaཚཚ Theater Set Design ཚཚ Museology/Museum Studiesཚཚ Theater Tech Crew ཚཚ Photographyཚཚ Visual Arts Day Careers (examples)Workplace Learning Experiences ཚཚ Archivistཚཚ Industry Mentorship ཚཚ Art, Drama and Music Teacherཚཚ Internship ཚཚ Broadcast Technicianཚཚ Microinternship ཚཚ Camera Operatorཚཚ Studio214 ཚཚ Commercial and Industrial Designer ཚཚ CuratorCertificates: Harper ཚཚ Film and Video Editorཚཚ Sound Recording ཚཚ Media and Communication Equipment Worker ཚཚ Multimedia Artists and Animator ཚཚ Set and Exhibit Designer ཚཚ Technical Director/ManagerCareer Pathway Guide 2017 | 2018 24 High School District 214
Communications Related Electives ཚཚ College Speech CommunicationWriter/Author/Editor ཚཚ Creative Writing ཚཚ Journalistic WritingPathway Courses ཚཚ Media TechnologyYear 1 Written and Oral Communication ཚཚ World LanguageYear 2 World Literature and Composition ཚཚ YearbookYear 3 American Literature and CompositionYear 4 English Literature and Composition College Majors (examples) College Composition ཚཚ English ཚཚ Creative WritingCareer Related Activities ཚཚ Communicationsཚཚ Athletics ཚཚ Professional Writingཚཚ District Career Days ཚཚ Linguisticsཚཚ District Career Nights Careers (examples)ཚཚ District Career Treks ཚཚ Copywriterཚཚ Poetry/Writing Groups ཚཚ Bloggerཚཚ School Newspaper ཚཚ Author/Novelistཚཚ Speech Team ཚཚ Songwriterཚཚ Yearbook ཚཚ PlaywriterWorkplace Learning Experiences ཚཚ Editor/Proofreaderཚཚ Industry Mentorship ཚཚ Technical Writerཚཚ Internship ཚཚ Grant Writerཚཚ Microinternship ཚཚ Speech WriterCertificates: Harper ཚཚ Translatorཚཚ Media Writing and Designཚཚ Online CommunicationsCareer Pathway Guide 2017 | 2018 25 High School District 214
Arts, Audio/Video Technology and CommunicationsJournalism and BroadcastingJournalism and BroadcastingPathway Courses Related Electives Year 1 Journalistic Writing 1 / 2 ཚཚ Acting Media Technology 1 ཚཚ College Speech CommunicationYear 2 Journalistic Writing 3 / 4 ཚཚ Creative Writing Media Technology 2 ཚཚ Graphic Arts DesignYear 3 Journalistic Writing 5 / 6 ཚཚ Media Analysis Media Technology 3 ཚཚ PhotographyYear 4 Journalistic Writing 7 / 8 ཚཚ Yearbook Media Technology 4 Production and Editing I Production and Editing IICareer Related Activities Careers (examples)ཚཚ Athletics ཚཚ Audio and Video Equipment Technicianཚཚ District Career Days ཚཚ Broadcast News Analystཚཚ District Career Nights ཚཚ Broadcast Technicianཚཚ District Career Treks ཚཚ Camera Operatorཚཚ Poetry/Writing Groups ཚཚ Film and Video Editorཚཚ School Newspaper ཚཚ Media and Communication Workerཚཚ Speech Team ཚཚ Producer and Directorཚཚ Yearbook ཚཚ Public Relations Specialist ཚཚ Radio and Television AnnouncerWorkplace Learning Experiences ཚཚ Reporters and Correspondentཚཚ Industry Mentorship ཚཚ Sound Engineering Technicianཚཚ Internship ཚཚ Writerཚཚ Microinternshipཚཚ Studio214Certificates: Harperཚཚ Media Writing and Designཚཚ Online CommunicationsCollege Majors (examples)ཚཚ Broadcast Journalismཚཚ Communication Studies/Speech Communication and Rhetoricཚཚ Digital Communication and Media/Multimediaཚཚ Journalismཚཚ Mass Communication/Media Studiesཚཚ Photojournalismཚཚ Radio and Television Broadcasting Technicianཚཚ Recording Arts TechnicianCareer Pathway Guide 2017 | 2018 26 High School District 214
Printing Technology – Visual Arts Related Electives Graphic Arts ཚཚ Advanced 2-D Art Studio ཚཚ Advanced Photo StudioPathway Courses ཚཚ Art 1Year 1 Graphic Art Design ཚཚ Art ImagingYear 2 College Advanced Graphic Arts ཚཚ College EntrepreneurshipYear 3 AP Studio Art 2-D ཚཚ College Introduction to Education ཚཚ College Speech Communication ཚཚ Computer Programming, Mobile App and Networking ཚཚ Journalistic Writing ཚཚ Photography ཚཚ Small Business Management ཚཚ Teacher Internship ཚཚ YearbookCareer Related Activities ཚཚ Web Maintenance and Designཚཚ Art Club ཚཚ Computer Graphic Artsཚཚ Art Gallery ཚཚ Fashion Graphic Artsཚཚ Athletics ཚཚ Web Visual Designཚཚ Graphic Arts Club ཚཚ Web Visual Designཚཚ Harper Graphic Communication Show College Majors (examples)ཚཚ District Graphic Arts Competition ཚཚ Advertising Art Directionཚཚ District Art Show ཚཚ Art Educationཚཚ Harper Art Show ཚཚ Fine Artsཚཚ Visual Arts Day ཚཚ Graphic Communicationཚཚ District Career Nights ཚཚ Graphic Designཚཚ District Career Days ཚཚ Publication Designཚཚ District Career Treks ཚཚ Technical EducationWorkplace Learning Experiences ཚཚ Web Designཚཚ Industry Mentorship Careers (examples)ཚཚ Microinternship ཚཚ Art Directorཚཚ Internship ཚཚ ArtistCertificates: Harper ཚཚ Photographer: Digital, Still, Video, Filmཚཚ Graphic Arts Desktop Publishing ཚཚ Computer Animatorཚཚ Graphic Arts ཚཚ Curator and Gallery Managerཚཚ Graphic Arts Design ཚཚ Desktop Publishing Specialistཚཚ Graphic Arts Web Design ཚཚ Graphic Designerཚཚ Graphic Arts Package Design ཚཚ Graphics Equipment Operatorཚཚ Graphic Arts Interactive Technology ཚཚ Illustratorཚཚ Graphic Arts Variable Data ཚཚ Printing Equipment Operatorཚཚ Graphic Arts Digital Photography ཚཚ Web Page DesignerCareer Pathway Guide 2017 | 2018 27 High School District 214
Arts, Audio/Video Technology and CommunicationsVisual ArtsArt (2-D Painting and Drawing; 3-D Jewelry and Sculpture)Pathway Courses Related Electives Year 1 Art 1 ཚཚ AP Art History Introduction to 3-D Art ཚཚ Art ImagingYear 2 2-D Art Courses or ཚཚ College Advanced Graphic Arts 3-D Art Courses ཚཚ College EntrepreneurshipYear 3 Advanced 2-D Art or ཚཚ College Introduction to Education Advanced 3-D Art ཚཚ College Speech CommunicationYear 4 AP Studio Art 2-D Design or ཚཚ Fashion Design AP Studio Art 3-D Design ཚཚ Fashion Construction ཚཚ Graphic Arts Design ཚཚ Graphic Arts Technology ཚཚ Photography ཚཚ Small Business Management ཚཚ Teacher InternshipCareer Related Activities College Majors (examples)ཚཚ Art Club ཚཚ Advertising Art Directionཚཚ Art Gallery ཚཚ Arts Administrationཚཚ Arts Unlimited ཚཚ Art Educationཚཚ Athletics ཚཚ Art Historyཚཚ District Art Show ཚཚ Fine Artsཚཚ District Career Days ཚཚ Illustrationཚཚ District Career Nights ཚཚ Interior Designཚཚ District Career Treks ཚཚ Visual Artsཚཚ Harper Art Showཚཚ Theater Set Design Careers (examples)ཚཚ Visual Arts Day ཚཚ Art Director ཚཚ Art TeacherWorkplace Learning Experiences ཚཚ Art Therapistཚཚ Industry Mentorship ཚཚ Commercial Artist, Illustrator and Artistཚཚ Internship ཚཚ Photographer: Digital, Still, Video, Filmཚཚ Microinternship ཚཚ Curator and Gallery Manager ཚཚ Fashion Designer ཚཚ Fashion Illustrator ཚཚ Interior Designer: Commercial/Residential ཚཚ Furnishings Coordinator ཚཚ Jewelry Designer ཚཚ Textile DesignerCareer Pathway Guide 2017 | 2018 28 High School District 214
Visual Arts Related Electives ཚཚ Advanced 2-D Art StudioPhotography ཚཚ Advanced ImagingPathway Courses ཚཚ Art 1Year 1 Photography 1 ཚཚ Art Imaging Photography 2 ཚཚ College Advanced Graphic ArtsYear 2 Photography 3 ཚཚ College Entrepreneurship Advanced Photography Studio ཚཚ College Introduction to EducationYear 3 Advanced Photography Studio ཚཚ College Speech CommunicationYear 4 AP Studio Art 2-D Design ཚཚ Graphic Arts Design ཚཚ Graphic Arts TechnologyCareer Related Activities ཚཚ Journalistic Writingཚཚ Art Club ཚཚ Teacher Internshipཚཚ Art Gallery ཚཚ Yearbookཚཚ Arts Unlimitedཚཚ Athletics College Majors (examples)ཚཚ District Art Show ཚཚ Artཚཚ Harper Art Show ཚཚ Art Educationཚཚ Visual Arts Day ཚཚ Film and Photoཚཚ Theater Set Design ཚཚ Fine Artsཚཚ District Career Nights ཚཚ Photographyཚཚ District Career Days Careers (examples)ཚཚ District Career Treks ཚཚ Art DirectorWorkplace Learning Experiences ཚཚ Art Teacherཚཚ Industry Mentorship ཚཚ Artistཚཚ Internship ཚཚ Cinematographerཚཚ Microinternship ཚཚ Commercial and Industrial DesignerCertificates: Harper ཚཚ Photographer: Digital, Still, Video, Filmཚཚ Graphic Arts Digital PhotographyCareer Pathway Guide 2017 | 2018 29 High School District 214
Arts, Audio/Video Technology and CommunicationsPerforming Arts Related Electives ཚཚ Art 1Acting and Technical Theater ཚཚ College Entrepreneurship ཚཚ College Fashion ConstructionPathway Courses ཚཚ College Speech CommunicationYear 1 Acting 1 / 2 or ཚཚ Dance Tech Theater/Woodworking 1 ཚཚ Education AcademyYear 2 Acting 3 / 4 or ཚཚ Fashion Design Tech Theater/Woodworking 2 ཚཚ FIne Arts WorkshopYear 3 Advanced Theater Workshop ཚཚ Teacher InternshipYear 4 Advanced Theater Workshop ཚཚ Vocal MusicCareer Related Activities Workplace Learning Experiencesཚཚ Assistant Directing ཚཚ Industry Mentorshipཚཚ Athletics ཚཚ Internshipཚཚ Costume Crew ཚཚ Microinternshipཚཚ Creative Writing Dayཚཚ District Career Days College Majors (examples)ཚཚ District Career Nights ཚཚ Actingཚཚ District Career Treks ཚཚ Musical Theaterཚཚ District Improv Teams ཚཚ Speech Communicationཚཚ District/School One-Acts ཚཚ Theater (Director, Performer, or Designer) ཚཚ Theater Designཚཚ District Summer Musical ཚཚ Theater Directing (Tech and Performance) ཚཚ Theater Educationཚཚ Drama Day ཚཚ Technical Theaterཚཚ Illinois High School Theater Festivalཚཚ Musical Productions Careers (examples)ཚཚ Play Productions ཚཚ Artistic Directorཚཚ Poetry/Writing Groups ཚཚ Arts Administratorཚཚ Speech Team ཚཚ Costumer/Costume Designerཚཚ Stage Managing Productions ཚཚ Directorཚཚ Tech Building Crew ཚཚ Lighting Designerཚཚ Tech Running Crew ཚཚ Set Designerཚཚ Tech Workshops ཚཚ Sound Engineerཚཚ School Newspaper ཚཚ Stage Managerཚཚ Speech Team ཚཚ Stage Performerཚཚ Variety Show (Performer, Tech, ཚཚ Tech Education or Student Director) ཚཚ Technicianཚཚ Visual Arts Day ཚཚ Theater TeacherCareer Pathway Guide 2017 | 2018 30 High School District 214
Performing Arts Related Electives ཚཚ College EntrepreneurshipBand ཚཚ College Introduction to EducationPathway Courses ཚཚ College Speech CommunicationYear 1 Concert/Symphonic Band ཚཚ FIne Arts Workshop Jazz Band ཚཚ GuitarYear 2 Concert/Symphonic Band ཚཚ Instrumental Ensemble Jazz Band ཚཚ Orchestra Winds and Percussion Harmony and Arranging 1 ཚཚ Teacher InternshipYear 3 Concert/Symphonic Band ཚཚ Vocal Music Jazz Band Harmony and Arranging 2 Workplace Learning ExperiencesYear 4 Concert/Symphonic Band ཚཚ Industry Mentorship Jazz Band ཚཚ Internship AP Music Theory ཚཚ Master Classes ཚཚ MicrointernshipCareer Related Activities College Majors (examples)ཚཚ Athletics ཚཚ Conductingཚཚ Color Guard ཚཚ Instrumental Performanceཚཚ Community Honor Ensembles ཚཚ Jazz (SYSO, CYSO, MYA, etc.) ཚཚ Musicཚཚ Conducting, Directing, Composing ཚཚ Music Compositionཚཚ Contests and Festivals ཚཚ Music Educationཚཚ District Career Days ཚཚ Music Therapyཚཚ District Career Nights ཚཚ Music Theoryཚཚ District Career Treks Careers (examples)ཚཚ District Honors Orchestra ཚཚ Composerཚཚ District 214 Honors Band ཚཚ Conductorཚཚ Illinois Music Educators Association ཚཚ Musician District/State ཚཚ Music Instructorཚཚ Festival Soloist ཚཚ Music Managementཚཚ Future Music Educators ཚཚ Performerཚཚ Jazz Combo ཚཚ Performing Arts Educatorཚཚ Marching Band ཚཚ Sound Designerཚཚ Pep Bandཚཚ Pit Orchestra 31 High School District 214ཚཚ Private Lessonsཚཚ Show Choir Comboཚཚ Small Ensemblesཚཚ Summer Music Campsཚཚ Tri-M, Solo and Ensembleཚཚ Variety ShowCareer Pathway Guide 2017 | 2018
Arts, Audio/Video Technology and CommunicationsPerforming Arts Related Electives ཚཚ ActingChoir ཚཚ College Entrepreneurship ཚཚ College Introduction to EducationPathway Courses ཚཚ College Speech CommunicationYear 1 Beginning Mixed Choir/Treble Choir/ ཚཚ Concert/Symphonic Band Advanced Mixed Choir ཚཚ DanceYear 2 Beginning Mixed Choir/Treble Choir/ ཚཚ FIne Arts Workshop Advanced Mixed Choir ཚཚ Guitar Harmony and Arranging 1 ཚཚ Jazz BandYear 3 Beginning Mixed Choir/Treble Choir/ ཚཚ Orchesis Advanced Mixed Choir ཚཚ Teacher Internship Harmony and Arranging 2 ཚཚ Vocal EnsembleYear 4 Beginning Mixed Choir/Treble Choir/ Advanced Mixed Choir AP Music TheoryCareer Related Activities Workplace Learning Experiencesཚཚ Athletics ཚཚ Industry Mentorshipཚཚ Conducting, Directing, Composing ཚཚ Internshipཚཚ Contests and Festivals ཚཚ Master Classesཚཚ District Career Days ཚཚ Microinternshipཚཚ District Career Nightsཚཚ District Career Treks College Majors (examples)ཚཚ District 214 Honors Choir ཚཚ Conductingཚཚ Extracurricular Choirs ཚཚ Instrumental Performanceཚཚ Illinois Music Educators Association ཚཚ Jazz District/State ཚཚ Musicཚཚ Festival Soloist ཚཚ Music Compositionཚཚ Future Music Educators ཚཚ Music Educationཚཚ Jazz Band Vocalist ཚཚ Music Therapyཚཚ Musical Theater ཚཚ Music Theoryཚཚ Private Lessonsཚཚ Small Ensembles Careers (examples)ཚཚ Summer Music Camps ཚཚ Composerཚཚ Tri-M, Solo and Ensemble ཚཚ Conductorཚཚ Variety Show ཚཚ Musician ཚཚ Music Instructor ཚཚ Music Management ཚཚ Performer ཚཚ Performing Arts Educator ཚཚ Sound DesignerCareer Pathway Guide 2017 | 2018 32 High School District 214
Performing Arts Related Electives ཚཚ ActingDance ཚཚ College Entrepreneurship ཚཚ College Introduction to EducationPathway Courses ཚཚ College Speech CommunicationYear 1 Orchesis or Dance 1 ཚཚ Fashion DesignYear 2 Orchesis or Dance 2 ཚཚ Fashion ConstructionYear 3 Orchesis or Dance 3 ཚཚ FIne Arts WorkshopYear 4 Orchesis ཚཚ Teacher Internship ཚཚ Vocal MusicCareer Related Activities Workplace Learning Experiencesཚཚ Athletics ཚཚ Guest Choreographers and Master Classesཚཚ Children’s Workshop ཚཚ Industry Mentorshipཚཚ District Career Days ཚཚ Internshipཚཚ District Career Nights ཚཚ Microinternshipཚཚ District Career Treksཚཚ District 214 Honors Dance Concert College Majors (examples)ཚཚ District/School Musicals ཚཚ Danceཚཚ Illinois State Theater Festival ཚཚ Dance Educationཚཚ National Honor Society of Dance Artsཚཚ National/State HS Dance Festival Careers (examples)ཚཚ Orchesis ཚཚ Arts Administratorཚཚ Production of Informal and Full Length Concert ཚཚ Choreographerཚཚ Show Choir ཚཚ Company Directorཚཚ Student Choreography ཚཚ Dance Educatorཚཚ Variety Show ཚཚ Dance Performer ཚཚ Dance Therapist ཚཚ Director and Coach ཚཚ Production Manager: Digital, Video and Stage ཚཚ Studio OwnerCareer Pathway Guide 2017 | 2018 33 High School District 214
Arts, Audio/Video Technology and CommunicationsPerforming Arts Related Electives ཚཚ College EntrepreneurshipOrchestra ཚཚ College Introduction to Education ཚཚ College Speech CommunicationPathway Courses ཚཚ Concert/Symphonic Band ཚཚ EntrepreneurshipYear 1 Orchestra/Concert Orchestra ཚཚ Guitar or Beginning Strings ཚཚ Instrumental Ensemble ཚཚ Jazz BandYear 2 Orchestra/Concert Orchestra ཚཚ FIne Arts Workshop or Beginning Strings ཚཚ String Ensemble Harmony and Arranging 1 ཚཚ Teacher InternshipYear 3 Orchestra/Concert Orchestra ཚཚ Vocal Music or Beginning Strings Harmony and Arranging 2Year 4 Orchestra/Concert Orchestra or Beginning Strings AP Music TheoryCareer Related Activities Workplace Learning Experiencesཚཚ Athletics ཚཚ Industry Mentorshipཚཚ Community Honor Ensembles ཚཚ Internship (SYSO, CYSO, MYA, etc) ཚཚ Master Classesཚཚ Conducting, Directing, Composing ཚཚ Microinternshipཚཚ Contests and Festivalsཚཚ District 214 Honors Band College Majors (examples)ཚཚ District Career Days ཚཚ Conductingཚཚ District Career Nights ཚཚ Instrumental Performanceཚཚ District Career Treks ཚཚ Jazzཚཚ District 214 Honors Orchestra ཚཚ Musicཚཚ Illinois Music Educators Association ཚཚ Music Composition District/State ཚཚ Music Educationཚཚ Festival Soloist ཚཚ Music Theoryཚཚ Future Music Educators ཚཚ Music Therapyཚཚ Jazz Comboཚཚ Marching Band Careers (examples)ཚཚ Pep Band ཚཚ Composerཚཚ Pit Orchestra ཚཚ Conductorཚཚ Private Lessons ཚཚ Musicianཚཚ Show Choir Combo ཚཚ Music Instructorཚཚ Small Ensembles ཚཚ Music Managementཚཚ Summer Music Camps ཚཚ Performerཚཚ Tri-M, Solo and Ensemble ཚཚ Performing Arts Educatorཚཚ Variety Show ཚཚ Sound DesignerCareer Pathway Guide 2017 | 2018 34 High School District 214
Business Managementand AdministrationPlanning, organizing, directing and evaluatingbusiness functions essential to efficient andproductive business operations.D214 Pathway/Program of StudyཚཚBusiness Management and Administration
Business Management and AdministrationBusiness Management and AdministrationBusiness Management and AdministrationPathway Courses Related Electives Year 1 Introduction to Business ཚཚ AP CalculusYear 2 College Entrepreneurship ཚཚ AP StatisticsYear 3 College Business ཚཚ College Speech Communication College Accounting ཚཚ Small Business ManagementYear 4 AP Economics ཚཚ Sports Marketing ཚཚ World LanguageCareer Related Activities ཚཚ Professional Communicationཚཚ Athletics ཚཚ Project Management Specialistཚཚ Community Service Club ཚཚ Small Business Managementཚཚ Debate ཚཚ Social Media for Businessཚཚ Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA) ཚཚ Supervisory and Leadershipཚཚ District Career Nights ཚཚ Supervisory Skills Iཚཚ District Career Days ཚཚ Supervisory Skills IIཚཚ District Career Treksཚཚ Leadership Council College Majors (examples)ཚཚ Startup Showcase ཚཚ Accountingཚཚ Student Council ཚཚ Business Administration and Management ཚཚ Business Management/Economicsཚཚ Workplace Learning Experiences ཚཚ Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operationsཚཚ College Entrepreneurship ཚཚ Human Resources Managementཚཚ Industry Mentorship ཚཚ Logisticsཚཚ Internship ཚཚ Management Information Systemsཚཚ Microinternship ཚཚ Office Management and Supervision ཚཚ Public Relations/Advertising/Certificates: Harper Applied Communicationsཚཚ Administrative Assistant/Business Software Specialist Careers (examples)ཚཚ Advanced Management ཚཚ Accountant and Auditorཚཚ Business Analyst ཚཚ Advertising Managerཚཚ Computers in Business ཚཚ Computer and Information System Managerཚཚ Conversational Spanish ཚཚ Financial Analystཚཚ Electronic Bookkeeping ཚཚ Human Resource Specialistཚཚ Fundraising for Nonprofits ཚཚ Logisticianཚཚ General Management ཚཚ Market Research Analystཚཚ Human Resource Management ཚཚ Market Research Specialistཚཚ International Business ཚཚ Operations Research Analystཚཚ Lean Six Sigma Green Belt ཚཚ Sales Managerཚཚ MCSE: SQL Business Intelligence ཚཚ Tax Preparerཚཚ Meeting and Event Planning ཚཚ Treasurers and Controllerཚཚ Office AdministratorCareer Pathway Guide 2017 | 2018 36 High School District 214
Educationand TrainingPlanning, managing and providing educationand training services and related learningsupport services.D214 Pathways/Programs of StudyཚཚTeaching/Training: Early Childhood EducationཚཚTeaching/Training: Primary EducationཚཚTeaching/Training: Secondary Education
Education and TrainingTeaching/TrainingEarly Childhood EducationPathway Courses Related Electives Year 1 Foundations for Learning ཚཚ AP Psychology and Development ཚཚ College Education Academy Introduction to Teaching Methods ཚཚ College Entrepreneurship ཚཚ College Introduction to EducationYear 2 College Introduction to Early Childhood ཚཚ College Speech Communication Education ཚཚ Introduction to Business Practicum in Early Childhood ཚཚ Small Business Management Education 2 ཚཚ Teacher Internship Program ཚཚ World LanguageYear 3 Practicum in Early Childhood Education 3/4Career Related Activities ཚཚ Early Childhood Education: Assistant Teacherཚཚ Athletics ཚཚ Early Childhood Education: Before/Afterཚཚ District Career Days School Careཚཚ District Career Nights ཚཚ Early Childhood Education: Family Child Careཚཚ District Career Treks ཚཚ Early Childhood Education: Infant/Toddlerཚཚ Educators Rising ཚཚ Early Childhood Education: Special Education ཚཚ Principals Advisory Council Paraprofessionalཚཚ Scholastic Bowl ཚཚ Early Childhood Education: Teacherཚཚ Service Learning ཚཚ Paraprofessional Educatorཚཚ Student Athletic Trainer ཚཚ Substitute Teacherཚཚ Student Councilཚཚ Student Tutor College Majors (examples) ཚཚ Early Childhood EducationWorkplace Learning Experiences ཚཚ Multicultural/ESL Educationཚཚ Industry Mentorship ཚཚ Special Educationཚཚ Internship ཚཚ Sport and Fitness Managementཚཚ Microinternship Careers (examples)Certificates: High School ཚཚ Coachཚཚ American Heart Association – CPR ཚཚ Education Administratorཚཚ American Heart Association – First Aid ཚཚ Elementary School Teacherཚཚ Gateway Level 1 ཚཚ Kindergarten Teacher ཚཚ LibrarianCertificates: Harper ཚཚ Multicultural/ESL Teacherཚཚ Conversational Spanish ཚཚ Pre-School Teacherཚཚ Early Childhood Education: Administrator ཚཚ Special Education teacher Certificate ཚཚ Teacher AssistantCareer Pathway Guide 2017 | 2018 38 High School District 214
Teaching/Training Related Electives ཚཚ AP PsychologyPrimary Education ཚཚ College Speech Communication ཚཚ World LanguagePathway Courses College Majors (examples)Year 1 Foundations for Learning ཚཚ Library Science and Development ཚཚ Multicultural/ESL Education Introduction to Teaching Methods ཚཚ Primary EducationYear 2 College Introduction to Education ཚཚ School Administration Teacher Internship Program ཚཚ School CounselingYear 3 College Education Academy ཚཚ Special Education ཚཚ Sport and Fitness ManagementCareer Related Activities Careers (examples)ཚཚ Athletics ཚཚ Coachཚཚ District Career Days ཚཚ Education Administratorཚཚ District Career Nights ཚཚ Elementary/Junior High Teacherཚཚ District Career Treks ཚཚ Librarianཚཚ Educators Rising ཚཚ Multicultural/ESL Teacherཚཚ Principals Advisory Council ཚཚ School Counselorཚཚ Scholastic Bowl ཚཚ Special Education Teacherཚཚ Service Learning ཚཚ Teacher Assistantཚཚ Student Athletic Trainer ཚཚ Vocational Education Teacherཚཚ Student Councilཚཚ Student TutorWorkplace Learning Experiencesཚཚ Industry Mentorshipཚཚ Internshipཚཚ MicrointernshipCertificates: High Schoolཚཚ AAFCS – Education Fundamentalsཚཚ American Heart Association – CPRཚཚ American Heart Association – First Aidཚཚ Gateway Level 1Certificates: Harperཚཚ Conversational Spanishཚཚ Library Assistantཚཚ Paraprofessional Educatorཚཚ Substitute TeacherCareer Pathway Guide 2017 | 2018 39 High School District 214
Education and Training Related Electives ཚཚ AP Coursework in CurriculumTeaching/Training ཚཚ AP Psychology ཚཚ College Speech CommunicationSecondary Education ཚཚ World LanguagePathway Courses College Majors (examples) ཚཚ Library ScienceYear 1 Foundations for Learning ཚཚ Multicultural/ESL Education and Development ཚཚ School Administration Introduction to Teaching Methods ཚཚ School CounselingYear 2 Teacher Internship Program ཚཚ Secondary Education College Introduction to Education ཚཚ Special EducationYear 3 AP Coursework in curriculum ཚཚ Sport and Fitness Management College Education Academy ཚཚ Teaching Content Area Careers (examples)Career Related Activities ཚཚ Coachཚཚ Athletics ཚཚ Education Administratorཚཚ District Career Days ཚཚ High School/Secondary Teacherཚཚ District Career Nights ཚཚ Librarianཚཚ District Career Treks ཚཚ Multicultural/ESL Teacherཚཚ Educators Rising ཚཚ School Counselorཚཚ Principals Advisory Council ཚཚ Special Education Teacherཚཚ Scholastic Bowl ཚཚ Teacher Assistantཚཚ Service Learning ཚཚ Vocational Education Teacherཚཚ Student Athletic Trainerཚཚ Student Councilཚཚ Student TutorWorkplace Learning Experiencesཚཚ Industry Mentorshipཚཚ Internshipཚཚ MicrointernshipCertificates: High Schoolཚཚ AAFCS – Education Fundamentalsཚཚ American Heart Association – CPRཚཚ American Heart Association – First Aidཚཚ Gateway Level 1Certificates: Harperཚཚ Conversational Spanishཚཚ Library Assistantཚཚ Paraprofessional Educatorཚཚ Substitute TeacherCareer Pathway Guide 2017 | 2018 40 High School District 214
FinancePlanning, services for financial and investmentplanning, banking, insurance and businessfinancial management.D214 Pathway/Program of StudyཚཚFinance
Finance Related Electives ཚཚ AP CalculusFinance ཚཚ AP Computer Science – A ཚཚ AP StatisticsFinance ཚཚ College Business ཚཚ College Speech CommunicationPathway Courses ཚཚ Personal FinanceYear 1 Introduction to Business ཚཚ Small Business ManagementYear 2 College EntrepreneurshipYear 3 College AccountingYear 4 AP EconomicsCareer Related Activities College Majors (examples)ཚཚ Athletics ཚཚ Actuarial Scienceཚཚ Club Treasurer ཚཚ Banking and Financial Support Servicesཚཚ Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA) ཚཚ Business and Personal/Financial Servicesཚཚ District Career Nights ཚཚ Marketing Operationsཚཚ District Career Days ཚཚ Credit Managementཚཚ District Career Treks ཚཚ Financial Planning Servicesཚཚ Math Team ཚཚ Insuranceཚཚ Startup Showcase ཚཚ International Financeཚཚ Student Council ཚཚ Investments and SecuritiesWorkplace Learning Experiences Careers (examples)ཚཚ College Entrepreneurship ཚཚ Actuaryཚཚ Industry Mentorship ཚཚ Budget Analystཚཚ Internship ཚཚ Credit Analystཚཚ Microinternship ཚཚ Financial Service ཚཚ Insurance AppraiserCertificates: Harper ཚཚ Insurance Underwriterཚཚ Electronic Bookkeeping ཚཚ Loan Officerཚཚ Financial Management ཚཚ Sales Agentཚཚ MCSE: SQL Business Intelligence ཚཚ Securities and Commodities ཚཚ Telemarketer ཚཚ Teller ཚཚ Treasurer and ControllerCareer Pathway Guide 2017 | 2018 42 High School District 214
Government andPublic AdministrationPlanning and performing government functionsat the local, state and federal levels, includinggovernance, national security, foreign service,planning, revenue and taxation and regulations.D214 Pathways/Programs of StudyཚཚForeign ServiceཚཚGovernance, Public Management and Administration
Government and Public AdministrationForeign Service Related Electives ཚཚ College Speech CommunicationForeign Service ཚཚ Naval Science (NJROTC) ཚཚ World LanguagePathway CoursesYear 1 AP PsychologyYear 2 AP European HistoryYear 3 AP GovernmentCareer Related Activities College Majors (examples)ཚཚ Athletics ཚཚ Political Communicationཚཚ Debate Team ཚཚ Political Science and Governmentཚཚ District Career Days ཚཚ Public Administrationཚཚ District Career Nights ཚཚ Public Policy Analysisཚཚ District Career Treksཚཚ Leadership Council Careers (examples)ཚཚ Naval Science (NJROTC) ཚཚ Administrative Services Managerཚཚ Speech Team ཚཚ Emergency Management Directorཚཚ Student Council ཚཚ General and Operations Managerཚཚ Student Tutor ཚཚ Legislator ཚཚ Political ScientistWorkplace Learning Experiences ཚཚ Public Relations Specialistཚཚ Industry Mentorship ཚཚ Reporter and Correspondentཚཚ Internshipཚཚ MicrointernshipCertificates: Harperཚཚ Conversational Spanishཚཚ Public Relationsཚཚ Public Relations for the WebCareer Pathway Guide 2017 | 2018 44 High School District 214
Governance and Public Management and AdministrationGovernance and Public Management and AdministrationPathway Courses Related Electives Year 1 Introduction to Business ཚཚ AP StatisticsYear 2 AP Psychology ཚཚ College AccountingYear 3 AP Government ཚཚ College Business ཚཚ College Speech Communication ཚཚ Naval Science (NJROTC) ཚཚ World LanguageCareer Related Activities College Majors (examples)ཚཚ Athletics ཚཚ American Government and Politicsཚཚ Debate Team ཚཚ City/Urban, Community and Regional Planningཚཚ District Career Days ཚཚ Political Communicationཚཚ District Career Nights ཚཚ Political Science and Governmentཚཚ District Career Treks ཚཚ Public Administrationཚཚ Leadership Council ཚཚ Public Policy Analysisཚཚ Naval Science (NJROTC) ཚཚ Urban Studies/Affairsཚཚ Speech Teamཚཚ Student Council Careers (examples)ཚཚ Student Tutor ཚཚ Administrative Services Manager ཚཚ Chief ExecutiveWorkplace Learning Experiences ཚཚ Emergency Management Directorཚཚ Industry Mentorship ཚཚ General and Operations Managerཚཚ Internship ཚཚ Legislatorཚཚ Microinternship ཚཚ Political Scientist ཚཚ Postmaster and Mail SuperintendentCertificates: Harper ཚཚ Public Relations Specialistཚཚ Conversational Spanish ཚཚ Reporters and Correspondentཚཚ Building Codes and Enforcement ཚཚ Social and Community Service Managerཚཚ Emergency and Disaster Managementཚཚ Public Relationsཚཚ Public Relations for the WebCareer Pathway Guide 2017 | 2018 45 High School District 214
FACTSC A R E E R PATHWAY2,700student workplace learning experiences34,565early college credits earned by studentsCareer Pathway Guide 2017 | 2018 46 High School District 214
Health SciencePlanning, managing and providing therapeuticservices, diagnostic services, health informatics,support services and biotechnology researchand development.D214 Pathway/Program of StudyཚཚHealth Science
Health Science Related Electives Health Science ཚཚ AP Biology ཚཚ AP ChemistryHealth Science ཚཚ AP Psychology ཚཚ College Health Occupations Career ObservationPathway Courses ཚཚ College Speech CommunicationYear 1 Introduction to Health Careers ཚཚ Experiential Medical Physiology and BiochemistryYear 2 Medical Terminology ཚཚ Human PhysiologyYear 3 College Nursing Assistant TrainingYear 4 Medical Science Academy College Majors (examples) ཚཚ BiotechnologyCareer Related Activities ཚཚ Community Health and Preventive Medicineཚཚ Athletics ཚཚ Dentistryཚཚ District Career Days ཚཚ Emergency Medical Technology/Technicianཚཚ District Career Nights ཚཚ Health Informatics/Medical Records ཚཚ District Career Treks Administrationཚཚ Health Careers Club ཚཚ Medicineཚཚ Student Athletic Trainers ཚཚ NursingWorkplace Learning Experiences ཚཚ Pharmacyཚཚ Industry Mentorship Careers (examples)ཚཚ Internship ཚཚ Dentist/Dental Technicianཚཚ Microinternship ཚཚ Dietitian and NutritionistCertificates: High School ཚཚ Emergency Medical Technicians and Paramedicཚཚ State of Illinois Certified Nursing Assistant ཚཚ Health Technologists and TechnicianCertificates: Harper ཚཚ Medical Records and Health Information ཚཚ Cardiographic Technician Technicianཚཚ Certified Nursing Assistant ཚཚ Nurse/Nursing Assistantཚཚ Computed Technology (CT) ཚཚ Occupational and Physical Therapistཚཚ Emergency Medical Services: EMT Basic ཚཚ Pharmacist/Pharmacy Technicianཚཚ Health Information Technology ཚཚ Physician Assistantཚཚ Health Care Office Assistant ཚཚ Physician/Doctor/Surgeonཚཚ Health Insurance Specialist ཚཚ Psychiatristཚཚ Mammographyཚཚ Medical Assistantཚཚ Paramedicཚཚ Pharmacy Technicianཚཚ Physical Therapy Aideཚཚ Practical Nursingཚཚ Phlebotomyཚཚ Therapeutic MassageCareer Pathway Guide 2017 | 2018 48 High School District 214
Hospitalityand TourismManagement, marketing and operationsof restaurants and other food services,lodging, attractions, recreation eventsand travel related services.D214 Pathway/Program of StudyཚཚRestaurants and Food/Beverage Services: Culinary Arts
Hospitality and TourismRestaurants and Food/Beverage ServicesCulinary ArtsPathway Courses Related Electives Year 1 Foods 1 / Foods 2 ཚཚ College EntrepreneurshipYear 2 College Culinary Arts / ProStart 1 ཚཚ College Speech CommunicationYear 3 College Culinary Arts / ProStart 2 ཚཚ Introduction to Business College ProStart Internship ཚཚ Small Business ManagementCareer Related Activities College Majors (examples)ཚཚ Athletics ཚཚ Baking and Pastry Arts/Baker/Pastry Chefཚཚ Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA) ཚཚ Cooking and Related Culinary Arts, Generalཚཚ District Career Days ཚཚ Culinary Arts/Chef Trainingཚཚ District Career Nights ཚཚ Hotel Administration/Managementཚཚ District Career Treks ཚཚ Restaurant/Food Services Managementཚཚ Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) Careers (examples)ཚཚ Speech Team ཚཚ Bakerཚཚ World Language Club ཚཚ Chef and Head Cook ཚཚ Food Service ManagerWorkplace Learning Experiences ཚཚ Hotel/Resort Managerཚཚ Industry Mentorship ཚཚ Waiter/Waitressཚཚ Internshipཚཚ MicrointernshipCertificates: High Schoolཚཚ Food Handlerཚཚ National Restaurant Association ProStart Certificate of AchievementCertificates: Harperཚཚ Bread and Pastry Artsཚཚ Conversational Spanishཚཚ Culinary Artsཚཚ Escoffier Online Culinary Artsཚཚ Food Service Managementཚཚ Hotel ManagementCareer Pathway Guide 2017 | 2018 50 High School District 214
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