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Active listening: the practice of paying close attention to a speaker and asking questions to ensure full comprehension

Analogy: a comparison between two things that are similar in some way, often used to help explain something or make it easier to understand

AP courses: advanced placement, college courses taken in high school

Apprenticeship: One bound by legal agreement to work for another for a specific amount of time in return for instruction in a trade, art, or business

Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB): is a test developed and maintained by the United States Department of Defense.

Attainment: the action or fact of achieving a goal toward which one has worked

Career cluster: provide students with a context for studying traditional academics and learning the skills specific to a career, and provide U.S. schools with a structure for organizing or restructuring curriculum offerings and focusing class make-up by a common theme su

Certifications: an official document that gives proof and details of something such as personal status, educational achievements, ownership, or authenticity

Clear: easy to understand

Comprehension: the action or capability of understanding something

Concise: using as few words as possible to give the necessary information, or compressed in order to be brief

Convincing: able to persuade somebody to believe that something is true or to act

Cooperative education: a school program that allows students to receive academic credit for career work in the student's field of interest done outside the school

Correlation: a mutual relationship or connection between two or more things

Career Technical Student Organization (CTSO): Vocational student organization; nonprofit, national organization with state and local chapters that exist to develop leadership skills and good citizenship among members; each organization is composed of vocational students interested in a specific occup

Dual enrollment: involves students being enrolled in two separate, academically related institutions. Generally, it refers to high school students taking college courses.

Extra-curricular activities: fall outside the realm of the normal curriculum of school or university education, performed by students. Such activities are generally voluntary, mandatory, non-paying, social, philanthropic as opposed to scholastic, and often involve others of the same

Formal Learning: highly institutionalized, bureaucratic, curriculum driven, and formally recognized with grades, diplomas, or certificates

IB courses: International baccalaureate, offering internationally recognized

Informal Learning: organized learning outside of the formal education system; tend to be short-term, voluntary, and have few if any prerequisites.

Internship: a type of work experience for entry-level job-seekers

Interpersonal skills: concerning or involving relationships between people

Legible: (of handwriting or print) clear enough to read

Post-Secondary: education after high school

Proofread: to read the text and mark corrections to be made

Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS): appointed by the Secretary of Labor to determine the skills our young people need to succeed in the world of work

TEACH format: • Think: What will this chapter be about? What do I need to learn from this chapter?
• Explain: Decide what you already know about the chapter.
• Ask: Who? What? Where? When? Why?
• Clues: Title, Key words, Headings, Illustrations

Transcript: an official document showing the educational work of a student in a school or college