St. Mary’s high schools to make changes...

[awpitt]

...to course catalog.

The St. Mary’s school board is accepting comments on a host of proposed changes to high school courses, including deleting five former classes from the official lineup at the Dr. James A. Forrest Career and Technology Center.

SoMdNews.com: St. Mary’s high schools to make changes to course catalog

[kwillia]

Originally Posted by awpitt

...to course catalog.



SoMdNews.com: St. Mary’s high schools to make changes to course catalog

The link won't open for me... what tech classes did they cut?

[Cheeky1]

Originally Posted by kwillia

The link won't open for me... what tech classes did they cut?

Here you go.

The five courses proposed to be deleted starting next school year from the Forrest center’s offerings are: Sculpture through Welding; Landscape Design; Sheet Metal Design and Fabrication; Geographic Information Systems; and Sales, Management, and Entrepreneurship.

[Dakota (Premo)]

Originally Posted by kwillia

The link won't open for me... what tech classes did they cut?

The five courses proposed to be deleted starting next school year from the Forrest center’s offerings are: Sculpture through Welding; Landscape Design; Sheet Metal Design and Fabrication; Geographic Information Systems; and Sales, Management, and Entrepreneurship.

[awpitt]

Some more about the high schools...

Science teacher Robin Solomon, who suggested the bioethics course, said the high-level academic class would look at a variety of issues, including medical, environmental and other ethics-related topics. It would give students who are interested in careers in medicine or science a head start over their college peers, she said.
A host of changes are being made to courses that fall under the Maryland State Department of Education’s web media pathway, including title changes to courses held in the county’s three high schools. Computer Website Development and Web Essentials courses are proposed to be deleted because they no longer align with the Maryland State Department of Education requirements for the pathway.
Two new courses will be added to the high schools’ program of studies — Principals of Arts, Media and Communication and the course Food and Nutrition Science/ProStart Capstone.
The Foundations of Technology course, which all students must take in high school, could be offered as an online course as soon as next school year.

[my-thyme]

The Foundations of Technology course, which all students must take in high school, could be offered as an online course as soon as next school year.

I'm glad to see some courses to be offered on line. This will give college bound students the ability to take even more classes to prepare.

Sad to see trade classes like welding being deleted from the Tech Center.

[awpitt]

Originally Posted by my-thyme

The Foundations of Technology course, which all students must take in high school, could be offered as an online course as soon as next school year.

I'm glad to see some courses to be offered on line. This will give college bound students the ability to take even more classes to prepare.

Sad to see trade classes like welding being deleted from the Tech Center.

Yea, the APEX program has had pretty good results. They're going to start offering it as an option for taking classes for orginal credit in addition to make up credits.