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Come gather knowledge, become empowered with valuable skills, and advance your career and resume with new in-demand expertise. Students have the opportunity to earn certifications to advance their current careers and enhance their trade skills. They can dual enroll in High School Diploma classes or English as a Second Language. Our evening Career Technical Education courses include:

Auto Body Repair

Develop surface preparation, including welding, metal straightening, and finishing to return cars to pre-accident condition. Apprenticeships may be available.

Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning (HVAC)

Students will learn about the maintenance, overhaul, repair, and adjustment of residential and commercial heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration units. Students will use specialized tools of the trade, understand the theory and application of the basic principles of cooling, air, electrical fundamentals, and controls, and diagnose unit malfunction. 

Fashion, Textiles and Apparel 

The course offers a hands-on introduction to the fashion industry and business practices. Students will explore the potential careers they can take part in as up-and-coming designers and entrepreneurs. Exploration of art mediums includes screen-printing, sewing, pattern making, draping, and drawing and developing their apparel.

Fundamentals of Dental Assisting

The course will introduce students to the principles of the dental assisting profession. Topics will include the dental team's roles and functions, ethics, jurisprudence, oral and facial anatomy, tooth morphology, infection control, law, and ethics. 

Google Workplace Essentials

This class will give students an overview and teach students how to use Google Suite’s popular cloud-based apps to create, collaborate, and share different files. Students will learn to store and manage files in Drive, create and format documents in Docs, work with spreadsheets in Sheets, create presentations in Slides, and create surveys in Forms. Students will also learn a few tips on managing email, sending Google Drive attachments with Gmail, and managing events with Calendar. 

Medical Assistant

Learn back office medical procedures, including medical terminology, lab procedures, anatomy, and physiology. Clinical training in hospitals, clinics, and doctors’ offices is available. 

Medical Assistant Back Office

Assist physicians in the back office or clinic, medical lab, and EKG. A 120-160-hour clinical assignment is required at a different site by arrangement. Online assignments outside of class time may be assigned. 

Medical Terminology

Learn and recognize word roots, prefixes, and suffixes used in medical language. Learn how to combine words to create meaningful medical conditions, comprehend their definition, and know the correct spelling. 

Patient Care Services

The Patient Care Services (PCS) program is a hybrid learning system dedicated to ensuring the full continuum of health care, which comprises health promotion, disease prevention, diagnostics, therapeutic and rehabilitative care, recovery, and palliative care.

Pharmacy Technician

The Pharmacy Technician Program prepares students to successfully attain training and qualifications to become a Pharmacy Technician. Students will learn the basic concepts of Pharmacology, practice settings, standards and ethics, State Board of Pharmacy laws and regulations, basic pharmacy calculations, drug dosages, forms, record keeping, labeling, and customer service.

Early Childhood Education (West Valley partnership)

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The careers in Early Childhood Education Classes are a collaboration between West Valley Community College and Silicon Valley Adult Education. Silicon Valley Adult Education offers students a career pathway to quickly enter the workforce. Students will earn permits upon completion of classes.   

These classes are free if students are enrolled in both West Valley Community College and Silicon Valley Adult Education High School Equivalency Class. If a student is not enrolled in a high school equivalency class, they will need to pay West Valley $331.00 for BOTH classes.

Note: Contact West Valley College, Patty Lopez, at 408-741-2156 or patricia.lopez@westvalley.edu for registration.

CHST 001: Principles and Practices of Teaching Young Children 331

This course examines the underlying theoretical principles of developmentally appropriate practices applied to programs and environments. Emphasis is on the key role of relationships, constructive adult-child interactions, and teaching strategies in supporting physical, social, creative, and intellectual development for all young children. This course includes a review of the historical roots of early childhood programs and the evolution of professional practices promoting advocacy, ethics, and professional identity. 

CHST 063: Child, Family, and Community

This course examines the developing child in a societal context, focusing on the interrelationship of family, school, and community and emphasizing historical and sociocultural facts. The processes of socialization and identity development are highlighted, showing the importance of respectful, reciprocal relationships that support and empower families.

IET -Integrated Educational Training Classes are available. See SVAE Counselor Angelica Vila, avila@metroed.net