FARMINGTON — Farmington Excessive College’s profession and technical training program gives college students with 25 profession alternatives, both via programs at the highschool, Northwest Arkansas Group Faculty or Northwest Technical Institute.
Starlinda Sanders, profession and technical technical coordinator for Northwest Arkansas Schooling Service Cooperative in Farmington, stated she sees profession and technical training as offering choices and alternatives for college kids.
Whereas Farmington has seven main profession and technical education schemes at the highschool, embedded inside these packages are a number of profession alternatives, Sanders stated.
Farmington Excessive College workers, academics and college students highlighted the varsity’s profession and technical education schemes and programs Feb. 14 throughout a showcase held for the general public.
The varsity’s first showcase opened within the Performing Arts Middle with Superintendent Jon Laffoon and principal Jon Purifoy addressing individuals within the auditorium. These attending had been primarily Farmington college directors; College Board members; some members of the general public, together with Mayor Ernie Penn; and others representing profession and technical training on the regional and state stage.
Sanders famous that Farmington presents 11 profession pathways on web site, together with enterprise administration, tv manufacturing, laptop science, cybersecurity, youngster care and diet, agriculture and advertising and marketing.
The highschool companions with the neighborhood faculty to supply seven extra profession packages, together with certification as a nursing assistant. College students can also take part in lessons at Northwest Technical Institute that embrace certifications in HVAC and welding.
All these lessons, Sanders stated, are giving Farmington college students a leg up and the “best choices and alternatives” as they plan for the longer term.
Sunny Teale, who’s with the Arkansas Division of Schooling Division of Profession and Technical Schooling, stated Farmington is getting ready its college students with life abilities, delicate abilities and content material data.
“Farmington is doing an unbelievable job,” Teale stated. “It’s serving to youngsters to determine if this profession is for them or not for them.”
Laffoon stated Farmington’s profession and technical training lessons present transformative studying experiences for college kids in grades 7-12.
“The curriculum gives an attractive hands-on surroundings and empowers college students to develop data that’s in demand within the workforce and the abilities they should thrive,” Laffoon stated.
Farmington’s present profession and technical education schemes are laptop science, engineering, biomedical science, agriculture, enterprise, AV expertise and communication, and household client science.
Farmington Excessive College additionally has profession pathways via Mission Lead the Means: preengineering, biomedical and laptop science.
Farmington strives, Laffoon stated, to extend commencement charges of profession and technical training college students, present college students with delicate abilities and employable coaching, enhance the variety of college students who maintain business certifications and put together college students for profession and faculty success.
“CTE equips our college students with the boldness to pursue their goals,” Laffoon stated.
Purifoy stated he began what he calls the “7 secrets and techniques of our profitable college” when he got here to Farmington 9 years in the past.
These secrets and techniques embrace constructing robust relationships; excessive expectations for steady progress; a assured, viable written curriculum; goal-setting motion plans with teaching; collaborative planning in groups; monitoring; and data-driven selections and customary assessments.
“That is what we try for,” Purifoy stated. “Our academics know this.”
He listed all of the academics concerned in profession and technical training but in addition highlighted that, together with educating the programs, these academics are also concerned in different methods with the varsity.
For 2021-22, the highschool had 319 college students who obtained certifications in several profession and technical education schemes and 48 college students as “completers,” which implies they completed all of the programs for one pathway over a three-year interval.
“That is a fourth of our college students, a fairly superb accomplishment,” Purifoy stated.
Profession and technical training enrollment declined through the covid years, however he stated it is again on the rise. As well as, programs could change annually as a result of the varsity polls its college students and gives programs they wish to take.
Following the primary a part of the showcase, contributors had been divided into teams and toured the totally different lecture rooms to search out out extra concerning the packages. College students in every of these packages gave shows on what they had been studying and the way it was serving to them for the longer term.
Farmington pupil Kylee Wilbanks talks Feb. 14 concerning the advertising and marketing and style merchandising lessons which are provided as a part of the varsity’s profession and technical training program. (NWA Democrat-Gazette/Lynn Kutter)
Luke Flanagan (left) and Cade Cox, each seniors at Farmington, speak Feb. 14 about programs provided in engineering, robotics and laptop built-in manufacturing. (NWA Democrat-Gazette/Lynn Kutter)
College students in broadcasting work Feb. 14 on the varsity’s every day newscast proven all through the varsity. College students are answerable for the whole manufacturing. (NWA Democrat-Gazette/Lynn Kutter)
Retired Farmington Excessive College instructor Carol Bundsgaard and her husband, Wealthy, had been a part of a gaggle touring the highschool Feb. 14 to search out out extra concerning the college’s profession and technical training program. (NWA Democrat-Gazette/Lynn Kutter)In regards to the educators
Profession and technical training academics at Farmington Excessive College and the lessons they train:
Jed Beall — introduction to engineering, ideas of engineering, robotics, laptop built-in manufacturing.
Leah Bunch — life and health, youngster care, meals and diet, lifespan growth.
Mandi Collyar — administration, retail enterprise, computerized accounting I, computerized enterprise utility.
Brian Dean — fundamentals of TV, digital images, intermediate superior TV, fundamentals of A/V tech.
John Lengthy — laptop science necessities, cybersecurity.
Seth Jones — agriculture buildings, agriculture metals, agriculture mechanics, superior agriculture mechanics.
Clayton Sallee — poultry science, animal science, superior animal science.
Mallory Noggle — medical interventions, environmental science, human physique programs.
Carrie Scates — private finance, advertising and marketing I and II, style merchandising, internship.
