Grade:  9-12 Prerequisite: None Length of Course: Semester

Description:  This elective course prepares students for the future by focusing on topics such as economics,

consumer behavior, resource management and decision making skills.  Units of study include choosing a place to live, income taxes, buying insurance and credit management.  Students will explore various career options, write a personal resume, participate in a mock interview, prepare a 1040 EZ tax form, and balance a checkbook.

Grade:  9-12 Prerequisite: Career and Life Planning is recommended as a prerequisite for this course.

Length of Course: Semester

Description:  Human Growth and Development A provide students with knowledge about the physical, mental, emotional, and social growth and development of humans from conception to old age, with a special emphasis on birth through school age. Course content will provide an overview of life stages, with a strong tie to prenatal and birth processes; fundamentals of children’s emotional and physical development; and the appropriate care of children.

Grade:  10-12 Prerequisite:  It is recommended that students have successfully completed Career and Life

Planning and Human Growth and Development before enrolling in this course. Length of Course: Year

Description:  This course introduces students to teaching as a profession.  Students will explore the process of human growth and development as it applies to today’s learners, and investigate instructional strategies appropriate at all grade levels.  Students will also explore additional influences such as environmental, ethnic, and socio-economic factors that influence student learning.  Areas to be discussed in this class are:  instruction, communication, problem solving and reflecting strategies, professional responsibilities, state standards, and lesson planning and assessment.  Additional topics covered include the history of education in America, education in today’s society, technology and 21^st Century learners, educational law and ethics, career options, planning for educators, and professional organizations.

Grade:  11-12 Prerequisite: Successful completion of Teaching as a Career is required.

Length of Course: Year  ** 2 hours and 2 credit hours

Description:  This course provides students with in-depth, practical instructional experience in the classroom setting.  Students will be placed in an elementary or secondary classroom in the Spring Hill School District under the direct supervision of a certified education professional.  Students will apply appropriate instructional strategies, organizational/time management, reflection and interpersonal communication skills to enhance student learning.  This course provides for direct application of the topics addressed in coursework for Teaching as a Career.  These include:  human growth and development, factors that influence student learning, professional responsibilities, state standards, lesson planning and assessment, education in today’s society, technology and 21^st century learners, educational laws and ethics.