The Education Career Cluster spans careers aimed at fostering learning from early childhood to adulthood, including teaching, instructional design, counseling services, community engagement, learner support, and educator training. This Cluster emphasizes quality education standards and lifelong learning, preparing individuals for success through all life stages by nurturing knowledge, skills, and critical thinking and encouraging personal and societal growth in a constantly evolving world.

The Employability Skills for Career Readiness Standards must be an integrated component of all CTE course sequences.

• Employability Skills for Career Readiness Standards

The Early Childhood Education program addresses child development, childcare, and teaching and learning, to guide the development of young children in an educational setting. Areas of study include planning and implementing developmentally appropriate activities, basic health and safety practices, legal requirements for teaching young children, and the development of a career portfolio.

• Program Standards - Early Childhood Education (pdf)
• Supplemental Program Resources – Early Childhood Education (pdf)

The Family and Consumer Sciences program provides instruction in topics which prepare students for adult roles and responsibilities, as well as workplace readiness. This program of study focuses on developing skills for balancing home, work, and life. Students study life, wealth, and home management, family dynamics, nutrition, wellness, and community leadership. This program also offers students a pathway into occupations related to human and social sciences: such as consumer or financial services, home care assistance, food related industries, counseling, social work, and family and consumer sciences professions.

• Program Standards – Family and Consumer Sciences with Complementary Course Standards (pdf)
• Supplemental Program Resources – Family and Consumer Sciences with Complementary Course Standards (pdf)

The Teaching and Training program provides students with the introduction to the principles of education. This program addresses human development, care, teaching and learning, so that students can guide the development of learners in an educational setting. Areas of study include planning and implementing developmentally appropriate activities, basic health and safety practices, and legal requirements for teaching learners.

• Program Standards – Teaching and Training (pdf)
• Supplemental Program Resources – Teaching and Training (pdf)