July 16, 2021
Humble ISD is providing new, leading-edge opportunities to enhance learning for sixth grade students through a new Career and Technical Education (CTE) Middle School Exploration Wheel. The goal is to provide students across the district with hands-on opportunities to discover their personal strengths while exploring multiple educational paths before reaching high school.
The wheel, new for the 2021-2022 school year, introduces sixth graders to eight exciting career modules that students rotate every four to five weeks into one of the following modules: Health Science; STEM Coding and Innovation; Animal Science, Wildlife, and Nature; Automotive and Architecture; Audio/Visual and Graphic Editing; Computer Technology and Accounting/ Finance; Culinary and Service Industry; and JROTC and Criminal Justice. By the end of the school year, the sixth graders will have studied all eight modules.
“We strongly believe that, by introducing students to career pathways at an earlier age, this will increase their confidence in choosing their preferred course of study in high school,” Larkin Le Sueur, Humble ISD Director of Career and Technical Education, said.
Students learn about criminal investigations and the fundamentals of law in the JROTC/Criminal Justice module of the Middle School Career and Technical Education Exploration Wheel.
The CTE Middle School Exploration Wheel was developed through suggestions from the Superintendent’s Student Advisory Committee. Students advocated for new opportunities to experience all that Humble ISD’s CTE programs had to offer at an earlier age, while giving them greater knowledge of their interests.
“The concept will also give students a chance to explore and counselors will be able to use that information in their individual meetings with students to help design each student’s personalized class schedule and post-high school plans,” Dr. Melissa Leigh, Humble ISD Senior Director of Personalized Student Success, said.
The Audio/Visual and Graphic Editing module of the Career and Technical Education Exploration Wheel teaches students about studio production both in front and behind the camera.
With a program already in place at West Lake Middle School, the district is expanding this concept to give access to students at all middle schools across the district. Eight new instructors have been hired as content-specific experts who will rotate through the district. Parents who would like more information are invited to contact their middle school feeder campus regarding class schedules or Humble ISD Career and Technical Education at 281-641-8310 to inquire more about career modules.
The Animal Science, Wildlife, and Nature module gives students the opportunity to learn about animal health and how animals adapt in wild and domesticated settings.