Career Readiness
Career Readiness equips students with the knowledge, skills, and behaviors necessary to prepare for success in the workplace. Through relatable concepts, these resources help students make meaningful decisions about their future, and grow professionally.
Alternatives to 4-Year College
Lessons introduce students to a variety of alternatives to pursuing a four-year degree to give them information that can assist in determining the best path forward.
Career Planning
MyCareerTech offers these lessons for students to gain valuable knowledge about the importance of good education and career planning to attain long-term career goals. Lessons are designed to help students understand the process of gaining experience, applying for employment opportunities, and attaining jobs and ultimately careers.
College Preparation
Lessons are intended to introduce students to a variety of topics, terminology, and timelines, surrounding college preparation that are important for obtaining both admission into college as well as financial aid.
Financial Literacy
Lessons assist students in becoming financially literate through a variety of topics and terminology surrounding finances that are important for developing positive money management habits.
Soft Skills
Lessons help students learn how these power skills, or personality-specific traits, are used in the workforce to describe a person’s approach to life, work, and relationships, and how they are sought-after by employers.
Career-tech Education
Career-tech Education equips students with the academic, technical, and employability skills needed for success when entering the workforce.
MyCareerTech offers online lessons organized by Career Clusters. Lessons include videos, student tests, classroom activities, guided notes, and a certificate of completion for students.
Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources
The Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources cluster focuses on the production, processing, marketing, distribution, financing, and development of agricultural commodities and resources including food, fiber, wood products, natural resources, horticulture, and other plant and animal products/resources.
Architecture & Construction
The Architecture & Construction cluster focuses on the designing, planning, managing, building and maintaining the built environment.
Arts, A/V Technology & Communications
The Arts, A/V Technology & Communications cluster focuses on the designing, producing, exhibiting, performing, writing, and publishing multimedia content including visual and performing arts and design, journalism, and entertainment services.
Business Management & Administration
The Business Management & Administration cluster focuses on business management and administration careers encompass planning, organizing, directing and evaluating business functions essential to efficient and productive business operations. Business Management and Administration career opportunities are available in every sector of the economy.
Education & Training
The Education & Training cluster focuses on the planning, managing and providing education and training services, and related learning support services.
Finance
The Finance cluster focuses on careers in the planning, services for financial and investment planning, banking, insurance, and business financial management.
Government & Public Administration
The Government & Public Administration cluster focuses on careers in executing governmental functions to include Governance; National Security; Foreign Service; Planning; Revenue and Taxation; Regulation; and Management and Administration at the local, state, and federal levels.
Health Science
The Health Science cluster focuses on planning, managing, and providing therapeutic services, diagnostic services, health informatics, support services, and biotechnology research and development.
Hospitality & Tourism
The Hospitality & Tourism cluster focuses on careers in hospitality & tourism management, marketing and operations of restaurants and other foodservices, lodging, attractions, recreation events and travel related services.
Human Services
The Human Services cluster focuses on preparing individuals for employment in various roles that relate to families and human needs such as community health workers, cosmetologists and nutritionists.
Information Technology
The Information Technology cluster focuses on building linkages in IT occupations for entry level, technical, and professional careers related to the design, development, support and management of hardware, software, multimedia and systems integration services.
Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
The Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security cluster focuses on the planning, managing, and providing legal, public safety, protective services and homeland security, including professional and technical support services.
Manufacturing
The Manufacturing cluster focuses on careers in planning, managing and performing the processing of materials into intermediate or final products and related professional and technical support activities such as production planning and control, maintenance and manufacturing/process engineering.
Marketing
The Marketing cluster focuses on careers in planning, managing, and performing marketing activities to reach organizational objectives. It includes skills in brand management, professional sales, merchandising, marketing communications and research.
Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
The Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics cluster focuses on the planning, managing, and providing scientific research and professional and technical services (e.g., physical science, social science, engineering) including laboratory and testing services, and research and development services.
Transportation, Distribution & Logistics
The Transportation, Distribution & Logistics cluster focuses on the planning, management, and movement of people, materials, and goods by road, pipeline, air, rail and water and related professional and technical support services such as transportation infrastructure planning and management, logistics services, mobile equipment and facility maintenance.
Career Exploration
Career Clusters are broad groups of related occupations that require similar skills and knowledge. Each Cluster is divided into Career Pathways, which group jobs that share common tasks, training, and work settings. This structure helps students explore occupations and focus their education and job search on areas that align with their interests and goals.
Upon completion of these materials, students will know basic automotive hand tools and their function in the shop.
Access to MyCareerTech materials requires that a teacher login or register; students never log in.
Lesson materials include: