(bright music) - Oh, okay, that would actually be a really good idea.

and then we could break it down.

I think I was in second grade, and my teacher, she was talking about jobs and other things like that, and I went, "Wow, this is really cool, like..." - We have a four pathway program here at Greenville, eventually, that you can choose to go to a two-year college, a four-year college, career, or you can go into the military.

And we support students to go there.

But every pathway the skills will stay the same for.

- CTE is career and technical education.

Here at Greenville we actually have four different areas that fall into CTE, we have business, we have FACS, which is family and consumer science, agriculture, and then technology.

- The big thing with CTE classes is the application of skills.

So we learn the skills, and then really being able to apply them in a real world setting.

- Why is collaboration so important and valuable?

I'm not done yet, I see hands up.

- Because you can accomplish more as a team than by yourself.

- Yes.

(bright music) I teach a class that's focused on a food truck.

So essentially what the class does is they go through all the development stages of creating a food truck, a business plan, a marketing plan.

I try to focus on communication, being a leader, professional skills, you know, basically things like handshaking, and you know, direct eye contact when you're talking to somebody.

The pandemic played a big factor into kinda altering some of those skills.

As soon as they can really understand what a career is I think it's a really good time to start introducing them to pretty much everything, and then let them kind of narrow down and choose what they might be interested in.

- I've always thought I would like to be a math or science teacher.

- I find, like, anything underwater interesting, so, like, marine biologist would be good.

- Well, my dream job is to get into the Air Force, and then later president.

- I wanna be a teacher when I grow up, because I think it's amazing to teach other people things, and have them learn.

I'll just think about it and I'll be like, well, what am I gonna do after this?

Will I get to go to my dream job, like, be a teacher, or will I do something else?

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