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Trade and Industrial Education is a secondary career and technology
education program designed to prepare students for initial employment
in trade and industrial occupations. The Trade and Industrial
Education program objectives are:
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To
help students secure employment through experiences that deal
with
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the
performance of skills in an occupational field;
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To
provide the basis for understanding and use of functional technology
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related
to the occupational field selected;
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To
help students deal with personal and group issues; and
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To
help students develop desirable work habits essential to job
success.
Trade and Industrial Education provides instruction that develops
manipulative skills, safety, judgment, technical knowledge,
and related occupational information. These prepare persons
for profitable employment in trade and industrial pursuits.
Trade and Industrial Education trains students for a wide
variety of occupations in industrial areas through contextual
instruction in the layout, design, production, processing, assembling,
testing, diagnosing, and maintenance of industrial, commercial,
and residential goods and services.
Instruction is provided by individuals who have actual wage-earning
experiences in the field they are teaching. Classrooms are laboratories
equipped to emulate industry or are actual work sites through
training arrangements such as cluster, pre-employment laboratory,
cooperative education, internships, or apprenticeships, all
of which are competency based methods of instruction. There
are 33 pre-employment lab and cooperative education program
areas that provide occupationally specific training in a specific
occupation within Trade and Industrial Education offered throughout
the Dallas Independent School District.
The major work-based learning systems are:
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Transportation
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Construction-Maintenance
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Electrical-Electronics
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Metal
Technology
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Industrial
and Manufacturing
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Communication
and Media
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Personal
and Protective Services |
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