CTE Classes at MHS

Entrepreneurship Class

Photographer: Amy Plackemeier

Entrepreneurship Class

Molly Stricker, Journalism 1 Student

   Each year, students at McPherson High School get the chance to pick their classes,  some of them being CTE (Career Technical Education) classes that are designed to help students learn and prepare for a career that they may be interested in. To learn about different CTE classes, the feature section will be covering different classes each week.

   “I’ve learned some really helpful things that I think would help me in the future to open my own business,” sophomore Alyssa Williams said. Entrepreneurship class is all about business plans, financial skills, and running and managing a business.

   It is one of the many CTE classes students can choose from at MHS. The class is meant for students who want to learn how to own and operate their own business.

   In entrepreneurship class, students will also learn about economics, marketing principles, human relations and psychology, business and labor law, legal rights and responsibilities of ownership, business and financial planning, finance and accounting and communication.

   In this class students are currently learning about business plans. “We are working with partners to create our own business to see what it would really be like to have your own business,” sophomore Taylor Johnson is quoted.

   “I’ve learned that starting a business is a lot more than buying a building and selling things; you really need to have it all planned out and you even need to know what might happen in the future within your business. You also have to have enough money to support you in the present as well as the future,” Johnson said“I would recommend this class to anyone who plans on opening up their own business or wants to learn more about what it takes to run a business.”

 

CTE Pathways Available at MHS

 

Agricultural CTE EXPLORING AGRICULTURE SCIENCE

BIOLOGY OF HORTICULTURE/PLANT & SOIL SCIENCE

BIOLOGY OF VETERINARY ANIMAL SCIENCE

AGRICULTURAL BUSINESS

AV Communication CTE BUSINESS ESSENTIALS

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS HS

MODERN JOURNALISM I AND II

PHOTOGRAPHY

DESIGN

ADVANCED BROADCAST & VIDEO PRODUCTION

ADVANCED JOURNALISM & DIGITAL PRODUCTION

PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND RESOURCE SCHEDULING

Business Finance CTE BUSINESS ESSENTIALS

PERSONAL FINANCE

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

ACCOUNTING I

COMPUTERIZED ACCOUNTING II

ACCOUNTING WORK EXPERIENCE

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS HS

Construction Introduction To Industrial Technology

BUILDING TRADES

CARPENTRY TECHNOLOGY 1

ADVANCED CARPENTRY TECHNOLOGY

Design INTRODUCTION TO INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY

BASIC DRAFTING EXPERIENCES

COMPUTER-AIDED DRAFTING I

COMPUTER-AIDED DRAFTING II

COMPUTER-AIDED DRAFTING III

Family and Community Service PREPARING FOR COLLEGE, WORK AND FAMILY

NUTRITION & WELLNESS I.

NUTRITION & WELLNESS II .

ON MY OWN

PARENTING & CHILD DEVELOPMENT

PERSONAL FINANCE

CAREER & COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS.

OTHER ELECTIVES

HOUSING AND INTERIOR DESIGN

TEXTILE CONSTRUCTION

Government ACCOUNTING

AMERICAN GOVERNMENT

CAREER & COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS

PARENT & CHILD DEVELOPMENT

PREP FOR COLLEGE, WORK & FAMILY

INTRO TO GOVERNMENT

Health BIOLOGY

CHEMISTRY

HEALTH SCIENCE I

HEALTH SCIENCE II

ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY

AP BIOLOGY

NUTRITION & WELLNESS I

NUTRITION & WELLNESS II

HEALTH SCIENCE III

HEALTH SCIENCE IV

 

Mobile Equipment Maintenance BUSINESS ESSENTIALS

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

INTRODUCTION TO INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY

AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY I

AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY II

AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY IIl

Power, Structural, and Technical Systems EXPLORING AGRICULTURE SCIENCE

PRODUCTION WELDING I

PRODUCTION WELDING II

AGRICULTURAL BUSINESS

INTRODUCTION TO INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY

Production INTRODUCTION TO INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY

COMPUTER AIDED DRAFTING I

PRODUCTION WELDING I

PRODUCTION WELDING II

Teaching/Training PREPARING FOR COLLEGE, WORK AND FAMILY .

PARENTING AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT

EXPLORING TEACHING AS A CAREER

ON MY OWN

TEACHING INTERNSHIP

 

Visual Arts COMPUTER APPLICATION

PREP FOR COLLEGE WORK & FAMILY

ART I

DESIGN

PHOTOGRAPHY

PROJECT MANAGEMENT & RESOURCE SCHEDULING