General Knowledge
The course sequences that prepare students with the knowledge and skills necessary for success in their chosen career.
What is a program of study?
The definition of career.
What is an occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person's life with opportunities for promotion?
A collection of programs and services intended to develop student's core academic, technical and employability skills, and provide them with education.
What is a career pathway?
The term that describes a group of careers that share common features.
What is career cluster?
The arrangement in which someone learns an art, trade, or job from another.
What is an apprenticeship?
A term used to describe a course or program that teaches a specific job skill.
What is vocational?
The number of times the average person changes careers in their lifetime.
What is 3-7?
The career cluster an Interior Designer be grouped with.
What is Architecture and Construction?
The number of career clusters.
An occupation that requires a particular skill set, knowledge, or ability. It is usually a hands-on job, but these jobs are found in every career cluster.
What is a skilled trade?
What is post secondary?
A person who organizes and runs their own business.
What is an entrepreneur?
The difference between a job and a career.
What is jobs focus on short-term goals while careers are centered around your long-term goals?
The Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources is made up of these career clusters.
What is Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources?
A certificate of completion awarded to a person after completing a program of study (usually lasting 2 years).
What is an associate's degree?
A course that is required before another course can be taken.
A course that is required before another course can be taken.What is a prerequisite?
The rules of behavior that govern a group or society.
What are ethics?
True or false: When in school, you can study multiple pathways.
What is true?
One of the following is NOT a career cluster.
- Marketing
- Hospitality and Tourism
- Science, Technology, Engineering and Manufacturing
- Education and Training
What is Science, Technology, Engineering and Manufacturing?
The term used to describe a wage that is below minimum wage that an employer can pay for the first 90 days of a new hire’s employment.
What is an initial employment wage” of $6.35 per hour?
The order, from broadest to most focused, in which clusters, careers, pathways are in.
Clusters, Pathways, Careers
The minimum wage in Iowa.
What is $7.25 / Hour?
This action can provide direction and focus for your goals and aspirations.
What is identifying a career pathway?
The Iowa Service Area that has the most career clusters.
What is Human Services?
The youngest age you can begin employment in Iowa.
What is 14?
Note: Children may work in the street trades (like newspaper delivery and candy sales) at age 10 and in migratory labor (like harvesting) at age 12.