Standards - Career & Technical Education

Incorporate safety procedures in handling, operating, and maintaining tools and machinery; handling materials; utilizing personal protective equipment; maintaining a safe work area; and handling hazardous materials and forces.

Demonstrate effective workplace and employability skills, including communication, awareness of diversity, positive work ethic, problem-solving, time management, and teamwork.

Explore the range of careers available in the field and investigate their educational requirements, and demonstrate job-seeking skills including resume-writing and interviewing.

Advocate and practice safe, legal, responsible, and ethical use of information and technology tools specific to the industry pathway.

Participate in a Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO) to increase knowledge and skills and to enhance leadership and teamwork.

Discuss and demonstrate ways to value diversity.

Utilize technology functions, including compressing files, converting files, importing files, exporting files, and transferring data among applications.

Compare hardware and software functions in word processing applications.

Save files in various formats including plain text and PDF in word processing applications.

Describe network computer functions including cloud-based applications.

Demonstrate electronic file management skills across local computers, networks, and the cloud.

Diagnose problems relating to technology systems, including network systems, hardware, and software.

Demonstrate basic computer and printer preventative maintenance.

Determine strategies to correct malfunctioning network systems, hardware, and software.

Create, manage, and navigate through a variety of business- and industry-appropriate documents using various data input techniques in word processing applications.

Apply basic editing and formatting tools to text within a document in word processing applications.

Apply document themes and style sets in word processing applications.

Format and edit paragraphs using options in word processing applications.

Create and modify a table within a document and apply table styles.

Create and modify lists using formatting to enhance document style.

Create and manage reference markers including footnotes, endnotes, captions, and citations.

Insert graphic objects within a document and apply formatting to those graphics.

Produce and edit business documents using word processing technology, including business letters, research papers, and reports that include title or cover page, headings, table of contents, page numbers, headers, footers, in-text citations, footnotes, and endnotes.

Create, edit, and share documents using online word processing technologies.

Utilize the desktop publishing process to apply design principles to publications.

Import and manipulate objects, images, shapes, and text in publications.

Generate a variety of business publications, with and without templates, using desktop publishing software.

Prepare publications for printing and sharing.

Create, manage, and navigate through industry-appropriate worksheets in spreadsheet applications.

Identify, manage, and search cell data and apply text and number formatting using spreadsheet applications.

Apply and modify document style to cells and tables using spreadsheet applications.

Apply and manage view options using spreadsheet applications.

Utilize formulas, functions, and fill to perform mathematical processes in spreadsheet applications, including percentages and decimals, order of operations, estimation, and prediction of patterns of data.

Identify relative and absolute cell references in spreadsheet applications.

Create and edit charts and graphs, and customize chart elements.