Core and Life Programs Core Programs Life Programs ELL Immersion Program

Core and Life Programs Top
The Tech Center offers a number of programs and services designed for students with special needs. Below is some basic information about these programs. If interested, please talk to your home school guidance counselor or to our Admissions counselor for more details.


Core Programs Top
Teachers use student interest in a particular career area to motivate change in behavior that interferes with the learning process and potential employment opportunities. These programs offer the small group instruction, supervision structure and support students need to be successful. Classes include:

Life Programs Top
Life classes are designed to prepare special needs students for the world of work. Students participate in a variety of vocational experiences in preparation for independent or supported employment.

Phase I: Exploratory Rotation
Students rotate as a class through 4 vocational programs each lasting one quarter of the school year. This phase exposes students to a variety of career options. It also provides the career and technical education teachers with the opportunity to observe student performance in a variety of career areas, assess interests and abilities, and make recommendations for further career training. The programs in the rotation are:

Phase II: Full Year Programs
Students receive intensive skill development in one career and technical education program. Programs include:

 

ELL Immersion Program Top
The ELL Immersion Program at the Tech Center at Yorktown is for high school students who have recently arrived from other countries and need to learn English. Listening, speaking, reading, writing and non-verbal communication skills are developed to help students further their education and facilitate career success. Students learn English while either earning high school credit or, for Spanish speaking students,  engaging in spanish GED preparation.

Students my sign up for either a:

            ♦ 2-Hour Program
                    2 Hours English Immersion

            ♦ 4 hour Program
                    2 Hours English Immersion
                    2 Hours Tech Program

            ♦ 6 hour Program
                    2 Hours English Immersion
                    2 Hours Tech Program
                    2 Hours Spanish GED

Spanish Trades

Exciting new classes for Spanish speaking students:
Spanish Business & Computers is a 1 year certificate program.
Spanish Cosmetology is a licensing class.  It is the same curriculum as our English Cosmetology classes only taught in Spanish.  The NYS license exam at the end of this two-year program is given in Spanish.
Other classes to choose from are Spanish Home Health, Spanish Culinary, Spanish Landscaping and Spanish Masonry.