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| Active listening | the practice of paying close attention to a speaker and asking questions to ensure full comprehension |
| Analogy | a comparison between two things that are similar in some way, often used to help explain something or make it easier to understand |
| AP courses | advanced placement, college courses taken in high school |
| Apprenticeship | One bound by legal agreement to work for another for a specific amount of time in return for instruction in a trade, art, or business |
| ASVAB | Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery |
| ASVAB | A test developed and maintained by the United States Department of Defense |
| Attainment | the action or fact of achieving a goal toward which one has worked |
| Career Cluster | provide students with a context for studying traditional academics and learning the skills specific to a career |
| Certification | an official document that gives proof and details of something such as personal status, educational achievements, ownership, or authenticity |
| Comprehension | the action or capability of understanding something |
| Concise | using as few words as possible to give the necessary information, or compressed in order to be brief |
| Convincing | able to persuade somebody to believe that something is true or to act |
| Cooperative Education | a school program that allows students to receive academic credit for career work in the student's field of interest done outside the school |
| Correlation | a mutual relationship or connection between two or more things |
| CTSO | Career Technical Student Organization |
| CTSO | nonprofit, national organization with state and local chapters that exist to develop leadership skills and good citizenship among members; each organization is composed of vocational students interested in a specific occupational area. |
| Dual enrollment | involves students being enrolled in two separate, academically related institutions. Generally, it refers to high school students taking college courses. |
| Extra-Curricular Activities | fall outside the realm of the normal curriculum of school or university education, performed by students. |
| Formal Learning | highly institutionalized, bureaucratic, curriculum driven, and formally recognized with grades, diplomas, or certificates |
| Internship | a type of work experience for entry-level job-seekers |
| IB Courses | International baccalaureate, offering internationally recognized courses |
| Interpersonal Skills | concerning or involving relationships between people |
| Legible | (of handwriting or print) clear enough to read |
| Post-Secondary | education after high school. |
| Proofread | to read the text and mark corrections to be made |
| SCANS | appointed by the Secretary of Labor to determine the skills our young people need to succeed in the world of work |
| SCANS | Secretary Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills. |
| TEACH Format | Think, Explain, Ask, Clues, Hand write |
| Transcript | an official document showing the educational work of a student in a school or college |
