Opelika Career Tech Continues to Grow

Well, it has begun.  The 2017-2018 school year has started.

For many of us it seems that summer never lasts long enough.  However, it is nice to get back into a routine, especially when that routine involves shaping and changing lives.  It is especially exciting this year as the Career and Technical Education (CTE) department at OHS continues to grow.

There are a few new faces that have joined us this year.  Mandy Baker recently moved to Opelika and will be leading the new Education and Training program at OHS.  In previous years we have called this program Child Development.  With this name change we are focusing student attention on the value of a career in education.

Jared Flemming has also joined the CTE Department as a Career Preparedness teacher.  Mr. Flemming will be a great addition to the solid core of teachers we currently have teaching Career Preparedness.

OHS will also be adding Arts, Audio/Video Technology, and Communications as a new program to CTE this year.  Tracy Tidwell, who has been with OHS for a number of years working in the video program, gained a CTE certification over the summer and will now be able to offer OHS students more course options within this field.

In the past five years CTE at Opelika High School has tried to make sure that the courses offered to students match not only the needs of our community, but also the interests of our students.  At the end of last school year we complied data to evaluate our efforts at reaching this goal.

For the 2013-2014 school year, OHS students pre-registered for 1,685 CTE courses.  That number has increased steadily for the past five years and for the 2017-2018 school year, OHS students pre-registered for 2,063 CTE courses.  We feel this information shows that OHS is adding CTE programs that interest a wide variety of students within the school.

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