What are Career Pathways?
Career Pathways are broad groupings of career specialties and/or occupations that have common skills and knowledge. Career Pathways provide a background for exploring career options at all levels of education. It also links learning to the skills and knowledge needed for future success. Hawai‘i is currently in a transitioning stage determining the number of career pathways for the State.
Nine Career Pathways (Projected)
- Agriculture, Food Innovation, and Natural Resources
- Arts, Creative Media, and Communication
- Business, Marketing, and Finance
- Culinary, Hospitality, and Tourism
- Education
- Health Sciences and Services
- Industrial and Engineering Technology
- Information Technology
- Law, Government, and Public Safety
Feed, clothe, and shelter humankind through occupations that cultivate, use, analyze, manage, and sustain natural resources. The Agriculture, Food Innovation, and Natural Resources Pathway offers opportunities to make the best use of earth’s natural resources to meet the basic needs of the world’s population.
Develop an analytical eye for the art and media that inspires the world. The Arts, Creative Media, and Communication Pathway focuses on connecting formal structures of artistic expression to audience perspectives in careers spanning fashion and technology; media arts and technologies; and the visual, performing, and written arts.
Why answer to the chief executive officer, when you can be one? Business is the foundation for all industries. The diversity of skills and concepts such as technology, finance, customer service, marketing, organizational behavior, and management are learned in the Business, Marketing, and Finance Pathway.
Plate an extraodinary meal, host a visitor from the other side of the world and travel for your job. Learn the skills needed to excel in the Culinary, Hospitality and Tourism Pathway.
Continue to learn and pass knowledge to others while the world sleeps. Make a difference through the lives of students who depend on you to teach skills they can use everyday from in the Education Pathway.
Make a difference in people’s lives through diagnostic and clinical health work, biotechnology medical research, and health and nutrition services. Learn medical terminology, the functions of the body systems, and the treatment and prevention of diseases and disorders in the Health Services Pathway.
Interested in designing, engineering, developing, and building solutions to address society’s problems and needs? Solve problems, connect people and places, and make the world run in the diverse career opportunities available in the Industrial and Engineering Technology Pathway.
Do you love technology? You have the opportunity to change the way we live, play, and do business through the Information Technology Pathway.
You ever think about planning, managing, legal aide, public safety, protective services and homeland security? If so, the Law, Government, and Public Safety Pathway may be the right one for you.
Definitions
Statements that describe the levels of performance and acceptable evidence that the content standards have been met. Performance Standards tell what a student product should look like if it meets the standards. Performance Standards must include three elements:
1. Performance indicators (clear description of quality products or performance);
2. Concrete examples such as student work; and
3. Commentary on how well student work demonstrates the achievement of the content—how good is “good enough.