What Is CTS? Career and technology studies (CTS) is a provincially authorized curriculum for Alberta secondary schools designed on a pathways model to offer flexible programming using 1-credit courses. 

The CTS program is designed to develop skills that senior high school students can apply in their daily lives when preparing for entry into the workplace or for further learning opportunities. Through the CTS program, students are provided with opportunities to personalize their learning, identify and explore their interests, manage transitions, and build partnerships while developing basic competencies—that is, the attitudes and behaviours that people need to participate and progress in today’s dynamic world of work.

The CTS program is divided into clusters to provide students, teachers, and administrators with opportunities to create pathways in which students can sample courses of interest or use courses to create focused pathways that lead to specialized skills, external credentials, or further education.

A cluster is a group of CTS courses within an occupational area that represents broad industry commonalities. Clusters in CTS are aligned with the National Occupational Classification (NOC) and function as an organizing tool for the CTS program.

EIPS offers a wide variety of CTS courses at each of our sites depending in student interest. Please see your school's website for available courses. 

What is CTF? Career and Technology Foundations (CTF) is an optional program that provides students in grades 5 through 9 with a variety of opportunities to explore their interests and better understand their career options earlier in their education. CTF provides a foundation for students to transition into Career and Technology Studies (CTS) in grades 10 through 12.

EIPS offers a wide variety of CTF courses at each of our sites depending in student interest. Please see your school's website for available courses.