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| 1. Active listening | the practice of paying close attention to a speaker and asking questions to ensure full comprehension |
| 2. Analogy | a comparison between two things that are similar in some way and often used to help explain something or make it easier to understand |
| 3. AP courses | advanced placement or college courses taken in high school |
| 4. Apprenticeship | One bound by legal agreement to work for another for a specific amount of time in return for instruction in a trade or art or business |
| 5. Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery ASVAB | is a test developed and maintained by the United States Department of Defense. |
| 6. Advising Placement and Retention System | an assessment advising program designed to identify the basic skill levels of students as they enter two-year institutions. |
| 7. Associate Degree | Achieved after completion of a curriculum meeting the demands of a 2-year community college program. |
| 8. Attainment | the action or fact of achieving a goal toward which one has worked |
| 9. Bachelor’s degree | Achieved after completion of a curriculum meeting the demands of a 4-year college program. |
| 10. Career cluster | provide students with a context for studying traditional academics and learning the skills specific to a career |
| 11. Career Technical Student Organization (CTSO) | Vocational student organization; 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. |
| 12. Certifications | an official document that gives proof and details of something such as personal status educational achievements ownership or authenticity |
| 13. Clear | easy to understand |
| 14. College/University | A postsecondary school where a student might receive a bachelor’s degree or master’s or or doctoral degree in a specific discipline. |
| 15. Community college | Type of college with up to 2-year programs leading to certificates or diplomas or associate degrees. |
| 16. Comprehension | the action or capability of understanding something |
| 17. Concise | using as few words as possible to give the necessary information or compressed in order to be brief |
| 18. Convincing | able to persuade somebody to believe that something is true or to act |
| 19. 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 |
| 20. Correlation | a mutual relationship or connection between two or more things |
| 21. Dual enrollment | involves students being enrolled in two separate academically related institutions Generally it refers to high school students taking college courses. |
| 22. Extra-curricular activities | fall outside the realm of the normal curriculum of school or university education and performed by students. Such activities are generally voluntary |
| 23. Formal Learning | highly institutionalized bureaucratic curriculum driven and formally recognized with grades and diplomas or certificates |
| 24. IB courses | International baccalaureate offering internationally recognized courses |
| 25. Informal Learning | organized learning outside of the formal education system tend to be short-term and voluntary and have few if any prerequisites. |
| 26. Internship | a type of work experience for entry-level job-seekers |
| 27. Interpersonal skills | concerning or involving relationships between people |
| 28. Job shadowing | A short-term experience that allows the student to follow an experienced worker and see the day-to-day activities of a particular career. |
| 29. Journey Worker | A certified and experienced and skilled craftsperson that has successfully completed an apprenticeship program. |
| 30. Legible | (of handwriting or print) clear enough to read |
| 31. Master’s degree | An advanced 2-year program completed after attainment of a bachelor’s degree. |
| 32. Post-Secondary | education after high school. |
| 33. Proprietary school | A privately owned school that operates for profit for those seeking vocational training. |
| 34. Proofread | to read the text and mark corrections to be made |
| 35. Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) | appointed by the Secretary of Labor to determine the skills our young people need to succeed in the world of work |
| 36. TEACH format | Think and Explain and Ask and Clues and Handwrite |
| 37. Transcript | an official document showing the educational work of a student in a school or college |
| 38. VOCATS | Vocational Competency Achievement Tracking System is a competency-based instructional management system that focuses on the individual student and tracks his/her achievement in relation to a predetermined set of core competencies. |
| 39. Volunteer | A contribution of free labor usually to a non-profit organization. |
| 40. Volunteer experiences | Unpaid experiences where students work to get experience. The experiences are not necessarily career related and not usually supervised by school personnel. |
