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.

Use technology to collaborate with peers and/or experts to create digital artifacts that can be published online for a target audience.

Formulate new ideas, solve problems, or create products through the design and engineering process by utilizing testing, prototypes, and user feedback.

Identify potential abuses and unethical uses of computers and/or networks.

Research and discuss legal issues and the terms of use related to copyright laws, fair use laws, and ethics pertaining to the downloading and personal use of elements including images, photographs, documents, video, sounds, music, and trademarks.

Describe ethical and legal practices for securing the confidentiality of business-related information.

Create an effective graphical representation of logic using Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams.

Explain the advanced functions of the integrated development environment (IDE).

Explain the higher-order functions of object-oriented programming, including encapsulation, abstraction, inheritance, polymorphism, composition, and instantiation.

Describe a program’s general use and purpose in the program documentation so the end user can execute the product successfully.

Identify all objects that need to be called and their functions in a computer program.

Describe the functions of different objects and their purposes in a program.

Describe the purpose and function of various types of arrays.

Construct and evaluate arithmetic expressions in a program or class.

Explain the purpose and function of a data structure as it relates to object-oriented programming.

Construct and evaluate code that creates, iterates, and manipulates arrays and array lists.

Construct and evaluate code that performs parsing, casting, and conversion.

Create an external file for data storage and manipulation through a program.

Differentiate among types of sorting algorithms.

Construct a program that uses appropriate sorting algorithms.

Write a program using advanced programming features.

Write a program that integrates multiple external applications, including spreadsheets, databases, and word processing documents.

Create an advanced macro for applications software.

Describe the purpose and function of web controls.

Create a web application that includes input validation.

Create an interactive program which gathers input from the user and provides appropriate output and feedback based on the user’s input.

Describe decision structures and how they control the flow of a program.

Describe the conversion to and from ASCII and Unicode using hexadecimal and binary number systems.

Declare, implement, and access data members in classes.

Instantiate and use class objects in programs.

Debug a program for errors.