Local Credit Courses
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0800
Office Aide
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Grades 11-12
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½ Credit
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Prerequisite:
Office Approval
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This program is designed to offer
students who are interested in office experience an opportunity to
learn office procedures by on-the-job training. This course, for
local credit only, is available to students one hour per day to assist
in the high school main office.
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0805
Library Aide
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Grades 11-12
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½ Credit
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Prerequisite:
Teacher Approval
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This program is designed to offer
students who are interested in library experience an opportunity to
learn office procedures by on-the-job training. This course, for
local credit only, is available to students one hour per day to assist
in the high school library.
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0810
Departmental Aide
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Grades 11-12
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½
Credit
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Prerequisite:
Teacher Approval
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This program is designed to provide
academic departments with student help for activities relating to that
department. Students requesting this course will report to the
department chairperson for assigned duties which may include
secretarial duties as well as assignment to individual teachers within
that department for any of their needs.
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0815
Journalism Editor
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Grades 11-12
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½ Credit
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Prerequisite:
Journalism
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This course is designed to offer
students who are interested in journalism experience an opportunity to
learn editorial skills through on-the-job training.
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0825-0828
Activities of Daily
Living I, II, III, IV
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Grades 9-12
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Credits as
determined by ARD
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Prerequisite:
ARD Placement
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This course enables the student to
focus on the application of the basic skills necessary to adequately
function as a consumer. Objectives are interdependent and will
focus on comparative shopping for tangible goods, services
computational terms of money, institutions and their applications,
components of budgets, and development of functional budgets for basic
needs and other desired tangible and services. The student will
focus on the use of various manipulative and electronic devices to
perform fundamental operations with whole numbers, fractions, and
decimals.
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0840
Driver Education
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Grades 9-12
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½ Credit
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Prerequisite:
Students must be
15 years of age before completing the
classroom phase.
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This course includes extensive
coverage of the state and national standards for traffic safety.
Students are taught proper attitudes, behavior, and skills necessary
for defensive driving. The classroom phase of this course is
taught during the Spring Semester before school at 7:00 am.
Students begin the driving phase in late March upon completion of the
classroom phase. The oldest students will drive first.
There is a fee for taking this course. The fee is established
each spring
based on average costs determined by YISD.
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0850
Peer Assistance and
Leadership
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PAL limited
enrollment Grades11-12
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½
Credit
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Prerequisite:
Teacher recommendation and
interview
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The PAL/Peer Helping course is a
peer helping program in which selected high school students will be
trained to work as peer facilititators with other students on their own
campus and/or from feeder middle and elementary schools. PAL
students later use these skills by helping to improve the climate of
the school and by helping other students have a more positive and
productive school experience. Issues addressed include at-risk
youth, drop out prevention, substance abuse prevention, teen pregnancy,
suicide, absenteeism, and other areas of special concern and
need.
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