Career Technical Education in Michigan
This week we talk with Paul C. Bergan, Regional Director for Career/Technical Education at the Berrien County RESA. The topic of our show today is Career Technical Education in Michigan. Mr. Bergan has served as President of the Michigan Council of Vocational Administrators and is a member of the Association of Career and Technical Education.
Mr. Bergan discusses what Career Technical Education has been to education in the past, "Career Technical Education is so much different from your old vocational ed. as you knew it 20, 25 years ago, -- where if a student couldn't make in the academic side, they shift him over to vocational or something, 'where maybe he could get a trade'... Well, that whole system has changed."
Regarding Career Technical Education today and in the future, "It used to be that we could train people to go out into the world and get a good job right out of high school. That is not the case anymore." "The Role of Career Technical Education is: expose students to, number one, is to prepare them for 21st century jobs. We wanted to prepare them with the skills that they'll be able to utilize throughout the next training level of their career."
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