Career Pathways

2025-2026 Academic Year

Career Cluster: Education & Training (EDUC)

Program Area: Family and Consumer Sciences Education (FCS)

Career Pathways connect rigorous CTE coursework with real-world experiences preparing students for careers.
Work-based Learning (WBL) is an integral part of all Career and Technical Education courses in North Carolina to show curricular relevance to industry skills.

Public School Units (PSUs) are encouraged to strategically choose work-based learning strategies in alignment with unique needs, considering factors such as local employment demands, available program offerings, resources, and other pertinent considerations. Contact your local CTE administrator for more information.

WBL Courses with Academic Credit:

  • CTE Advanced Studies
  • CTE Cooperative Education
  • CTE Entrepreneurial Experience
  • CTE Internship
  • CTE Pre-apprenticeship
  • CTE Apprenticeship

WBL Activities without Academic Credit:

  • Guest speaker
  • Career fair
  • Job fair
  • Transition fair
  • Field trip (workplace tour)
  • Job shadowing
  • Mentoring
  • Service learning
  • School-based enterprise
  • Simulated workplace
  • Workplace challenge/Industry-sponsored project

Teaching/Training (TETR)

Middle Grades Exploration
EY10 Exploring Personal Characteristics and Careers
EY11 Exploring Careers and Employment
EY12 Exploring Financial Literacy
EY30 Career Exploration
FY10 Exploring Social and Emotional Skills
FY14 Exploring Childcare
Foundational Prerequisite Option(s)
N/A
Prerequisite Option(s)
FE21 Teaching as a Profession I Honors
Concentrator Option(s)
FE22 Teaching as a Profession II Honors
Career Pathway Major Options
FE23 Teaching as a Profession Field Experience Honors
WA05 CTE Apprenticeship EDUC
WE05 CTE Entrepreneurial Experience EDUC
WI05 CTE Internship EDUC
WO05 CTE Cooperative Education EDUC
WP05 CTE Pre-apprenticeship EDUC
WS05 CTE Advanced Studies EDUC
Supplemental Employability Skills
0I00 IB Personal and Professional Skills
CC10 Microsoft Word and PowerPoint
ED45 Career Management
Supplemental Technical Courses
FC11 Principles of Family and Human Services
FC13 Counseling and Mental Health I
FE11 Early Childhood Education I
FE60 Child Development
Career and College Promise
Approved Career and College Promise Career Technical Education Pathway
Career and Technical Student Organizations
Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA)

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