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What to expect with SHS CTE
Added Sep 07, 2021
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All SHS CTE courses described
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you are interested in a career like if you're interested in the nursing field maybe being a health coach Plant High School some of the classes. The intro it has a lot of psychology the next year we talked about how important it is for our bodies and how it affects up at different points in our life we also learn The gales at work boots separation but always a favorite food labs are black and our last class is nutrition facts in. Beer and you can play do they inhale and how we can still teach her to use food fuel their body hi I'm caramelized and I graduated from Sweetwater High School in 2018 I'm currently at Pellissippi State Community College my sophomore year I am majoring in sociology I took all of his classes in high school for my freshman year to my senior year I'm technically a complete her I never really want knew what I wanted to do and out of high school until I took our classes I just knew that wanted to help people and to make a difference but when she starts sitting with a family and all the family dynamics that go along with that I really found it so interesting and I wanted to continue studying that and learn it in a deeper value within my college career and so okay Milan sociology I also has been a lot of time working on chemistry in her class because it was a real struggle for me academically I did think I was going to pass but within her class we would take 10 to 30 minutes each class. And just to do Khan Academy my work has such a really hard and I really don't think I would have passed without that class her class has made such a deep impact on me that now I go back and see her and work on my service hours and I really wanted to get her on my life and tell her all that I'm doing in college Miss wheeler also thought it was really important for me to take those classes and to see because you knew that I was interested in what I was interested in hi I'm feeling fair-weather Jordan today we're both assistants at the University of Tennessee Knoxville during her time in high school you were both ZTE students with Miss Ledford we study guide therapy and we learn applicable skills which we can use in our Everyday Life lyrics collaborating effectively with Hunter group or how to make a healthy dietary decision valuable public speaking skills that I continue to use ever how come college of business together our time in the TT class has helped us successfully transition from high school to college we appreciate Bedford was a reason why I joined FCCLA she made everything a fun learning experience because of her I got the retired teacher scholarship she never gave up on her students and always push them the person I am today is because of hearts hey my name is Kevin I pay you Wednesday large animal sign this phone and green now and we're now here in the Dreamhouse playing. working on the Greyhound we have a sale in the spring of green out to be holy and they learned men have management skills they can you Forcht Bank near I think I have a Grove prop regarding notification sale I'm down linemen at Niagara Center Dusky dragons grocery stores along with small animals here in the barn we have some of our projects we just finished with the teeth now we're the barnsdale is a really good project for the Wii bookkeeping system will have to maintain records on the the feeding of the animal for sale most of these will be going into somebody's freezer and so we need to be sure they're safe correctly where's the animal top project along with that was what we call supervisors experience program and student has one they're called for sure SAE really really learned about the species that you're feeding and they they take skillathon we had to place third and fourth Premier exhibit because they did so well on their skills on test so it's really in-depth when you actually have a project to the raise yourself from Corrigan take Lexie Credit Union and you bring out here and actually put it into practice my name is arsenic and I graduated Sweetwater High School in 2017 breast augmentation near Sweetwater I hated school I want nothing more than to be homeschooled and get out of a public school as fast as I could I had no job for school until I join the high school FFA was Kevin. As my advisor over the course of my phone does the name of the hospital that that day I finally found my flight mr. McKnight was able to get me involved and so much so that if they truly changed my outlook on the stool and life in general I started out by showing pigs and I moved on the cattle before adulation also showed she became a major factor in why I enjoyed my four years at Sweetwater High School I became very active in the chapter I was at that face. I was in the livestock judging team and I was a member of the sole judging team for one year I was also involved in building the hydroponic systems in in the hospital's Greenhouse I'm currently employed with Thompson Backhoe service and phone well I've been working since graduation 2 years ago as well as helping operate our family farm, Thompson Farm we currently operate a 300-acre beef operation along with two hundred acres used for high production in a of veins and we also run heavy equipment quite often on a family farm we run Cleveland at 300 I could babe operation we have 120 acres for high production we also recently convert 76 Acres of soybean Fields Back in the day field I tried to take every CTE class I could to help me prepare for my career path these classes proved to be very helpful over the years some examples would include Crop Production such as nutrients needed by each crops Max muscle growth and production also learn to figure the different ratios and combinations of fertilizer needed for crops by using soil samples another important aspect online with weed control in which chemicals would work best to minimize the spread of weeds in the crops as you can say that really did help me to have a f i have a better outlook on and laughing Gmail I'm thankful for everything I was able to learn and be a part of through the FSA it truly help me prepare for my career path and also make lifelong for hey my name is Brian Thompson High School on the architectural and design feature a cheats fundamental of construction social systems listen to basically the first class we teach everything from all the hand tools the power tools to the stationary power tools that we have over here at the second year we go into more framing techniques done the best invention and they design their own houses let me transfer him to a 24in bar and grill they have to design the roof design at all other things to do here also is some electrical programs from 20 amp 2 double 30 amp for the water heaters and ovens my name is Joseph Moses and I'm the owner of J M Remodeling and Renovations have a former student of Sweetwater High School I was going to Thompson students from 2010 to 2013 he's honestly thought me everything that I used a today to run my business from his classes I learned geometry algebra reading and comprehension at a properly weighted tape measure and how to figure an estimate and so many more things that I use in my room business and daily daylight Thompson's class was the most important class at the high school because of the amount of people needed in my field without his classes are probably working at a dead-end job 12 hours a day and a half of what I make working 5 to 7 hours building a deck for hanging drywall I did not attend college After High School and most of my teachers probably didn't think I would ever amount to anything but I'm a business owner, I own a house and a new car and I have something to thank for giving me the skills to get here some of my favorite memories from high school far from Thompson's class one time Thompson top my class how to build a wheelchair ramp and then we went and installed in for an elderly couple had a lot of fun and it felt good to give someone something that we had made after that day I start really paying attention to Thompson he was a great teacher I worked on a lot of stuff in his class it was the only class I ever look forward to I start working on little carpentry projects and then work for one of my friend who is older and my dad and eventually started taking on my own jobs and hiring help Brian Thompson inspire me to do better than I was in school and got me to where I am today and his class gave me everything I needed to start my career Ron Thompson provided me with my first tools for this career respect and the true meaning of pride and I did not cost me a dime learn from him everything that you can one day you'll use it for school or High School business administration pathway rehab so different classes that we have with this one of them being secure applications at the beginning course where you learned about this weekend to your as well as just before you spell then we move it into business communication says except there we go to dispatch and finally finish up with Advanced Computer Applications and we do have one other person in our business management Career Cluster medicine interpreter in just a few minutes but we also in this class we get to play with 3D printers as well as learning about businesses being a couple minutes on your printer and we do different things with them so just building up in the hospital to see right now I have to finish that are building their own houses using your 3D printers and we're doing everything to scale and learning not just how to utilize these in my business. Stating but as well as some other areas such as math and science we also have the cord that comes for me as well, what makes learning WBAL career do you want to go into even if that is something from Agriculture and maybe you're working on a car to perhaps working at Domino's or even in the office company the best banks are available to you and you actually do turn cool to have some time to work on those things with that class though it doesn't count toward your Career Cluster but I can smell is the Capstone for 2 past 7 send me a text of individuals of Education computer science foundation's and computer application in the foundations of education class or taught how to be a teacher or librarian anything is education teaching me how to write program to work on the program helps combat that we're getting I'm learning a little bit about that and I have Computer Applications and with that we have been working on Microsoft PowerPoint in Microsoft Word and when we get back we're going to get more into the dude my name is Jared Watkins, graduate of Sweetwater High School class of 2018 and I am currently employed here at the Water Valley Collision Jordan High School advance open around here I think it has to be very rewarding in conclusion I'm very thankful for Pflugerville High School I'll bring this with you to listen to me and I'm not trying to make it the breakfast is from a traumatic but I do love him and he's a very I definitely think that was in his classes I used that I lay here at our office and I definitely am very thankful for him passing it along to his business and everything is going to be very beneficial the family I'd like to think we were high school and Mr Babi for offering these courses to me I'm definitely a proud graduate of Sweetwater High School my name is dining room and I am the health science teacher at Sweetwater High School and at Sweetwater High School obviously as a freshman to Health Science sophomore students are given the opportunity to sit for state board exam and obtain your certification in the nursing assistant program and become a CNA we've been fortunate in Sweetwater High School that Sweetwater Hospital Sweetwater Nursing Center I have a chance for the last five years to come and attend clinical hours much of the equipment that we have in the classroom we have a hospital Walkers and canes and other medical supplies that they have donated to my students to allow them to perform the skills at this time I'd like to take you and show you some of our not map pieces of equipment that we have to educate the students at Sweetwater High School is Alex and allows the students only communicates with the state of Maine allow them to act assessment Alex can be he is operating off of a computer either Wi-Fi stores and we can sit Alex to be an agent a patient employment a patient is having lung problems a heart attack or just are for regular physical exam so the students will select we're going to say that guy in class assessment they will take this device with a stethoscope and listen to the heart and the lungs they can also check abdominal sounds of a sound they can check all the call Sis on Alex throughout the body so that they can learn to talk. And he actually interact with him and and communicate and he respond which gives them some kind of understanding of what the real world is like when you approach a patient that made angry at you at all in any career in healthcare whether it be a doctor or a nurse someone that wants to do Radiology maybe even work with animals for example as far as the medical side of that this past Saturday is really where you need to be one thing that I want you to know is everything you're it decide to take the certified nursing assistant exam and you passed you will be able to get a job at Sweetwater hospital at that time or any Hospital UT hospital in Knoxville Tennessee children's Beetle immoral for example and all the surrounding local hospitals will hire certified nursing assistant that hits your foot in the door it gets you to be able to visualize opportunities in the hospital and maybe gain interest in something you never really thought you had interesting before at this moment I'd like to introduce you to Elizabeth urgent she is one of my previous student and she was one of the first classes she is working at Sweetwater on the way cans and going to I graduate in May of this coming year at Tennessee Western University with her Bachelors of Science in nursing my name is Alyssa Burgess and I graduated in 2017 my horses studies was General Health and I found all those courses to be very beneficial my senior year I was able to be a part of the first class of students certified nursing assistant program a week after I graduated I was able to get my first job as a certified nursing assistant at Sweetwater Hospital which I'm currently still employed at I'm now in the BSN program at Tennessee Wesleyan University can I have found that the classes at Pitkin high school and a half hospital has helped make sale in nursing school and none of this would have been possible without nipping Gramps has helped me in so many ways and I couldn't have done any of this without her within the health science path of study have iCloud called Hosea and hope to stay in school for Health occupation students of America when you are a member of this club you can take what you've learned in the classroom materials and information that you've learned and we do compete with other students across different counties of East Tennessee at a regional competition and if we're fortunate enough we can go to the Sea again just left you all across the whole state of Tennessee my first years here I'm at the hilltop feature we actually were fortunate enough to continue at least eight landlord I must the other students across the state of Tennessee let me know if in fourth place and one of our competition which was really really really out saying it but if we've been surgery went to the National level but unfortunately we failed to work so I won't take her to you that if you decide that the health science halfway is something you would like to get involved in at Sweetwater High School please consider Baytown how's the club member and competing
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