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1.01 Key Terms
Miguel Garcia
Term | Definition |
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Apprentice | A person who works for another in order to learn a trade |
Career cluster | Provide students with a context for studying traditional academics and learning the skills specific to a career |
Career ladder | Is a metaphor for job promotion |
Career pathway | A workforce development strategy used in the United States to support workers' transitions from education into and through the workforce. |
Certificate program | A sequence, pattern, or group of academic credit courses that focus upon an area of specialized knowledge or information and have specifically defined outcomes |
Certification | The act of certifying |
Cooperative education program | A structured method of combining classroom-based education with practical work experience |
Correspondence course | A course of instruction provided by a correspondence school |
Continuing professional education | Is the means by which people maintain their knowledge and skills related to their professional lives. |
Degree | Any of a series of steps or stages, as in a process or course of action; a point in any scale |
Distance learning | Education in which students receive instruction over the Internet, from a video, etc |
Education | The act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life |
Graduate school | A school, usually a division of a university, offering courses leading to degrees more advanced than the bachelor's degree |
Hospitality | The friendly reception and treatment of guests or strangers |
Hospitality industry | A broad category of fields within the service industry that includes lodging, event planning, theme parks, transportation, cruise line, and additional fields within the tourism industry |
Internship | The state or condition of being an intern |
Occupation | A person's usual or principal work or business, especially as a means of earning a living; vocation: |
Postsecondary | Any type of school or training beyond the high school level |
Professional association | A body of persons engaged in the same profession, formed usually to control entry into the profession, maintain standards, and represent the profession in discussions with other bodies |
Tech prep | A nationwide career development system that provides a student with a planned program of study that incorporates academic and career-related courses articulated between the secondary and postsecondary levels |
Tourism | The business or industry of providing information, accommodations, transportation, and other services to tourists |