Calhoun-Gilmer Career Center |
5236 E. Little Kanawha Hwy. - Grantsville, WV 26147
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The Calhoun-Gilmer Career Center, a career and technical education (CTE) institution , is located between Grantsville, West Virginia and Glenville, West Virginia on State Route 5. Our school opened as part of Calhoun and Gilmer Counties' public education systems in August of 1975. For over 30 years, we have been offering a variety of occupational training programs designed to prepare our graduates for the workplace or to continue their training at a college or university. Career Center faculty and staff are highly trained professionals proficient in their areas of expertise. They strive to have their secondary and post-secondary students excel academically and display social skills that are considered acceptable behavior in the workplace. Choosing to become a student at the Calhoun-Gilmer Career Center has proven to be a beneficial one for those that have completed a training program at our facility. Our history indicates that we provide an excellent atmosphere in which to learn, while ensuring that our students work toward the characteristics that will allow them to be caring and contributing members of society. Quality training begins in an up-to-date facility, we constantly gather new information, ideas, equipment advice, and current work practices from our Partners in Education. We make use of various teaching techniques that include current textbooks, written and oral reports, specific program related materials, work-based learning, computer usage skills, and hands-on activities that encourages all students to achieve while focusing on a program of study. We have developed articulation agreements (contracts) with many area colleges and universities which allow our students to earn Advanced College credits or EDGE credits, while completing their training at the Career Center. College credits earned through our programs are free of charge. Students must meet college or university requirements. College credits earned through EDGE (Earn A Degree Graduate Early) are also available in most of our programs and are free of charge. We strive to give the students and adults of Calhoun and Gilmer counties as well as those in surrounding communities the opportunity to master the qualifications necessary to meet the occupational demands of an ever-changing global workplace.
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