Career and Technology Spotlight
With so much happening, Career & Technology Education is the place to be!
Ag teachers, Adam Westbrook and Layne Sheets, are keeping the Ag and FFA students busy competing in leadership contests. Their district LDE contest is next week and Jayton Rainey finished second at the National FFA AgriScience Fair competition in Indianapolis last week. FFA students have also begun their Meat fundraiser.
Business & Computer Science teachers, Jack Rex and Alicia Gonzales, are preparing their BCIS and Accounting students for district contests in the spring. Many of Mr. Rex’s students have been working on events for multiple years and he is expecting good things from them. Ms. Gonzales has her new video technology class out videoing different angles and types of shots. Her new digital graphics class has been creating special projects using Photoshop.
New Family & Consumer Science teacher, Jesse Thomas, has been instructing his Preparation for Parenting class in types of family structures and options couples have in forming families. He’s learning to sew in order to help Personal & Family Dev. students with an apparel project. Mr. Thomas is also pitching in to help Ms. Melton supervise FCCLA.
FCCLA members (Family, Career, & Community Leaders of America) are busy planning a fall harvest dance to be held after the last football game. They participated in DECA’s Treat or Trunk, are preparing for regional STAR Event contests and have several preparing to run for Regional Offices. They will also sponsor a toy drive in December for the Slaton Housing Authority.
Gayla Carlton has returned to the Marketing/Career Preparation class. She has always been very involved with DECA and once again has her DECA students working on many projects. Halloween weekend they sponsored Treat or Trunk for community children. Their annual fruit and candle fundraiser will begin in November. She is also helping her students get ready for marketing contests in the spring. All of her students are currently working at job sites in and around Slaton.
Pat Moses has her cosmetology students busy learning all the basic and new haircuts and taking appointments. Appointments times are M-F 1:30-3:45 and Thursdays from 4:00-7:00. They do a great job and offer most salon services for extremely reasonable prices.
Lynn Melton’s Ready, Set, Teach students are now interning at JH and CTE. Apparel Design students have been working on original design sketches and preparing to sew an individual project. Food Science & Nutrition classes have passed safety & sanitation testing and are preparing for their first foods lab.
Career & Technology courses and TEKS will change for 2010-2011. All C&T teachers will be very busy this spring attending trainings to prepare them for all the upcoming changes.
