We learn how to communicate better, what it takes to work with a team, how to learn from other people's ideas. Taking Stock At Madison Park Technical Vocational High School, a few miles away from the Boston BizCamp, Rashawn Facey-Castillo is scanning the stock market on the Internet. It just went up and keeps going up. Mr. Facey-Castillo is among 20 students enrolled in one of NFTE's pilot BizTech camps. Sponsored by Microsoft Corp., the camp focuses on integrating the NFTE curriculum with on-line learning.
Students complete the majority of their work through a computer and server.
NFTE teacher Charlotte McCullough asks the class. You could be the winner here. Ms. McCullough, who regularly teaches computer operations and programming languages at Madison Park, has been using the NFTE curriculum since 1991. Teachers for the program must complete at least 16 hours of training on teaching a fundamental NFTE class and are certified by the foundation for one year. More than 900 teachers currently have such certification.