Unit 9 - Glossary

  1. Career: an occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person's life and with opportunities for progress
  2. Career Cluster: a concept that provides students with a context for studying traditional academics and learning the skills specific to a career and provides U.S. schools with a structure for organizing or restructuring curriculum, offering classes composed around a common theme, such as interest
  3. Certificates: a document serving as evidence or as written testimony, as of status, qualifications, privileges, or the truth of something
  4. Education: information about or training in a particular field or subject
  5. IHL (Institutions of Higher Learning): refers to an institution beyond the high school level, such as academies, universities, colleges, seminaries, institutes of technology, and certain other collegiate-level institutions, such as vocational schools, trade schools, and career colleges, that award academic degrees or professional certifications.
  6. Postsecondary Education: tertiary education, also referred to as third stage, third level, and post-secondary education, is the educational level following the completion of a school providing a secondary education, such as a high school, secondary school, university-preparatory school, or gymnasium.
  7. Salary: a fixed regular payment, typically paid on a monthly or biweekly basis but often expressed as an annual sum, made by an employer to an employee. 
  8. Secondary Education: education beyond the elementary grades; provided by a high school or college preparatory school 
  9. Skills: particular abilities to perform tasks well
  10. Training: the action of teaching a person a particular skill or type of behavior
  11. Wage: A fixed regular payment, typically paid on a daily or weekly basis, made by an employer to an employee, usually a manual or unskilled worker.
  12. Workforce: the people engaged in or available for work, either in a country or area or in a particular company or industry