The Career and Technical Education (CTE) Department at the Indiana School for the Deaf is a highly developed, work-based training program for both High School and Transitional students. Sophisticated equipment and industry-standard software training allow our students to learn with hands-on training that give them marketable job-skills.

To prepare for success, students must have opportunities to reinforce, apply and transfer their work experience knowledge and skills to a variety of settings and problems. Knowledge about career opportunities, requirements, and expectations and the development of workplace skills prepare students for success in the work force, training or college. Additionally, we do provide extra CTE courses with JEL.

TRANSITION AND CAREER SERVICES
Transition Services are a planned set of activities that assist students with moving from school to post-school activities. In the Transition and Career Services (TACS) program these services include community experiences, instruction, the development of employment, and other post-school adult living tasks and goals. The TACS staff takes each student's abilities and interests to heart in trying to match students with jobs that will not only interest them, but will also offer enough variety so that students have a clearer understanding of their own individual strengths in order to best plan for their futures.

J. EVERETT LIGHT CENTER
The Indiana School for the Deaf has been working in conjunction with Washington Township Schools’ J. Everett Light Career Center to provide intensive vocational training to students who identify that they would like to leave high school with national board certification in their chosen vocational field. The J. Everett Light program lasts for two years. Some programs have specific prerequisites for enrollment. See your Guidance Counselor for specific grade level requirements.

JEL Career Center classes relate academic subjects to the “real world of work”. Students learn in a classroom specifically designed to resemble the related work atmosphere. The Career Center uses state-of-the-art equipment, computer programs and teaching techniques to give students the “hands on” experiences that students usually don’t experience until they enroll in post-secondary institutions.

Students can earn elective high school credits for JELCC courses. Upon passing a course for the semester, a student can earn three credits for a three-hour course and two credits for a two-hour course. ISD will add these credits to the transcript. Additional information may be found on their website at www.jelcc.com.

ORIOLES ACADEMY
The Transition and Career Services program (TACS) established the Oriole Academy to assist students with work readiness skills. The Oriole Academy follows the Indiana State Department of Education's curriculum for Interdisciplinary Cooperative Education (ICE), in which part of the school day is set aside for work experience, while another works on academic skills that support the student in career education in general and toward his or her specific job placement.