Academics

Integrated Academics

Integration is based upon the idea that there are skills, thought processes, and topics taught in both the career-technical related classroom and the academic classroom. Grant offers integrated classes to provide the opportunity for both the academic and the career-technical instructor to teach these lessons simultaneously. This offers our students academics tied to real world learning experiences related to math, science, and language arts academic standards and career-technical competencies.

Favorite integrated projects of our students include:

Pumpkin Run Research Project
Resume and Mock Interviews
All My Sons Business Ethics Project
"Tools of My Field" Presentation Project
Small Business Proposal Project
Employability Project
Celebrity Chef Project
Mouse Trap Cars
Bridge Building Project
Egg Drop Packaging
Product Team Presentations
Plant Specimen Collections
Karyotyping Analysis
Zoo PowerPoint Research Project
Technical Article Introductory Presentations
Nail Driving Science
Concrete-Density, Specific Gravity, and Force Research

Language Arts

The Language Arts Department at Grant Career Center offers two distinct styles of classroom instruction. The instruction of Integrated English III resembles the traditional high school English class with its focus being traditional and contemporary American literature, grammar and usage conventions related to real world professional experiences. The instruction of English IV, on the other hand, uses Grant's unique integrated team teacher format to teach and strengthen English and communication skills as they are used in that particular career field.

Extended Day and Summer School English are two additional classes that are taught through Grant Career Center. These classes provide an opportunity for students who are deficient in credits to meet the requirements for graduation.

Course Offerings:

Integrated English III
Integrated English IV
Extended Day English
Summer School English

Mathematics

The Mathematics Department at Grant Career Center offers real world mathematics to the students enrolled in each career training program. Integrated Mathematics provides students math skills used daily in the labs, on the job-site, and for the rest of their career. Students apply the mathematical equations and formulas to problems encountered in their fields, for college entrance, and for post-secondary success.

Extended Day and Summer School Mathematics are two additional classes that are taught through Grant Career Center. These classes provide an opportunity for students who are deficient in credits to meet the requirements for graduation.

Course Offerings:

Integrated Mathematics
Extended Day Mathematics
Summer School Mathematics

Science

The Science Department at Grant Career Center offers students the opportunity to learn science applications as applied to a particular career program. The integrated approach allows the career-technical and academic instructors to demonstrate and teach scientific principles through the problems and projects of each career field. This real world application also meets the state standards for graduation. Students spend time on classroom learning, laboratory activities and projects that bring science to life.

Extended Day and Summer School Science are two additional classes that are taught through Grant Career Center. These classes provide an opportunity for students who are deficient in credits to meet the requirements for graduation.

Course Offerings:

Integrated Science
Extended Day Science
Summer School Science

Social Studies

It is the goal of the Grant Career Center Social Studies Department to guide and assist students in learning and understanding their relationship to society and to the interdependent world community. We shall aid students in becoming informed citizens, who actively participate in community events, and help determine directions and policy formation for our country. We believe that knowledge gained through the study of history and government are central to the education of citizens in a democracy.

American Government is a course that explores the origins of the United States government and its present status and functions. The exploration of American Government is completed through readings in text and specialized projects.

Included topics:

Foundation, structure and function of government
Comparisons of different forms of government
Rights and responsibilities of a citizen in a democracy
United States Constitution
American legal system

Extended Day and Summer School Social Studies are two additional classes that are taught through Grant Career Center. These classes provide an opportunity for students who are deficient in credits to meet the requirements for graduation.

Course Offerings:

American Government
Extended Day Social Studies
Summer School Social Studies

Employability Grading

In order to better prepare our students for the real world, Grant's staff members have implemented a school wide employability grading system. At least 25% of students' grades are based upon how well they demonstrate the needed qualities of an excellent employee. These qualities include:

Regular Class Attendance
Preparedness for Class
On-task during Class Activities
Class Participation
Professional Behavior

With such a focus, our students are made aware of the importance of these skills and how valuable they are to their success in school and the in the workforce.