Course Description
Diversified Career Technology Curriculum Frameworks for 2007-2008
What is DCT?
A critical, challenging, discipline of study.
A partnership involving the school, the business community, and the student.
A means of preparing students for career opportunities in selected occupations
using the cooperative method of instruction.
A method of enabling students to develop a variety of workplace competencies and
transferable skills.
A program designed to integrate in-school instruction and On-the-Job Training in
an identifiable occupational career field selected by the student.
History of DCT
Diversified Career Technology (DCT) was created in 1933
in Jacksonville as Cooperative Vocational Education (CVE) by Robert D. Dolley.
As the director of Vocational Education for Duval County, Dolley was interested
in developing a program that balanced vocational guidance, practical work
experience, and general academic class work. Only those students with good
grades, good moral and civic reputations, and who were dependable, honest, and
willing to work were accepted into DCT. In 1937, Dolley became Florida's
supervisor for trade and industrial education and took the program to the state
level, renaming it Diversified Cooperative Training. In 1997 the name was
changed to Diversified Career Technology. Over 74 years later, DCT is still
going strong throughout the state of Florida.
Mission of DCT
A critical, challenging discipline of study.
Provide cooperative environment conducive to developing students as motivated,
self-disciplined individuals.
Deliver a curriculum of academic challenges, skill development, and
career-related learning.
Develop caring, responsible, life-long learners.
Prepare graduates who are flexible and committed to technical competence.
Instill social, leadership, and problem-solving skills.
DCT Curricula
Florida is committed to providing the necessary rigor in the Diversified
Education curricula to ensure students a smooth transition into both their
chosen field and into postsecondary education.
The premises of the Diversified Education curricula include:
1. Solving problems related to the globalization of commerce and industry.
2. Enabling students to understand and use a variety of technologies.
3. Encouraging students to identify, organize, plan, and allocate
resources.
4. Stressing the importance of interpersonal skills in diverse societies.
5. Acquiring, evaluating, organizing, maintaining, interpreting, and
communicating information.
6. Encouraging students to : think creatively and critically, set goals,
make decisions, solve problems, visualize, prioritize, and reasons.
7. Stress the integration of and articulation with academics.
8. Being sequenced so that broad-based understandings and skills provide a
foundation to support advanced studies.
9. Enabling students to acquire broad transferable understandings and
skills.
10.Displalying responsibility, self-esteem, sociability, self-management,
integrity, and honesty.
11.Fostering a realistic understanding of work.
12.Fostering an understanding and appreciation of business ethics.
13.Utilizing a variety of interactions with team members and the business and
industry community.