CNMI Public School System Office of Curriculum Instruction and Assessment

1. CNMI Public School SystemOffice of Curriculum Instruction and Assessment Career and Technical Education Program Presented By: Jessica Taylor

2. To offer equal educational opportunity for all students in preschool through grade twelve by providing optimum curriculum, instruction, community service, and work experience in academic and vocational programs based on the different needs of students, unhampered by preconceived roles or artificial constraints. High Student Performance Highly Qualified Faculty and Staff Effective and Efficient Operations Safe and Orderly Schools Parent and Community Partnerships (+1) PSS and CTE CNMI Public School SystemStrategic Priorities + 1 BOE Policy

3. Career and Technical Education • Formerly known as Vocational Education • Name was changed to Career and Technical Education to combat the perception of Voc Ed being considered as “second class”. • When CTE courses also incorporate more academic rigor, research shows that student achievement significantly increases. • These findings suggest that CTE should be an important aspect of a state’s broader high school redesign strategy. NGA Best Practices

4. The New CTE

5. Role of Career and Technical Education (CTE) Program • High School Reform • 21st Century Learning Themes/Clusters • Rigor and Relevance • Coordination between Core Content and CTE courses • Integrate 21st Century Skills/Rigor and Relevance into curriculum • Economic and Workforce Development • Career Cluster Programs • Collaboration with Schools and Business/Industry Partners • Empowering Learners • Career Cluster Programs designed around student interests/skills and workforce demands • Providing opportunities for students to choose from a wide array of career programs

6. 21st Century Learning Themes • Interdisciplinary themes into core subjects (English, Math, Science, and SS) • Global Awareness • Financial, Economic, Business and Entrepreneurial Literacy • Civic Literacy • Health Literacy

7. 21st Century Learning Clusters • Learning and Innovation Skills • Creativity and Innovation • Critical Thinking and Problem Solving • Communication and Collaboration • Information, Media and Technology Skills • Information Literacy • Media Literacy • ICT (Information, Communications and Technology) Literacy • Life and Career Skills • Flexibility and Adaptability • Initiative and Self-Direction • Social and Cross-Cultural Skills • Productivity and Accountability • Leadership and Responsibility

8. Rigor and Relevance • Rigor: Learning experiences that are appropriately challenging in academic rigor, allowing students to think independently and extend their knowledge. • Relevance: Learning experiences relate to a problem or situation connected to the world beyond school and allow students to focus on a real audience for a real purpose.

10. Career Clusters • Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources • Architecture and Construction • Arts, A/V and Communications • Business, Management, and Administration • *Education and Training (All CNMI PSS High Schools) • Finance • Government and Public Administration • Health Science • Hospitality and Tourism • Human Services • *Information Technology (All CNMI PSS High Schools) • Law, Public Safety, Corrections, and Security • Manufacturing • Marketing, Sales, and Service • Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics • Transportation, Distribution and Logistics

11. Kuder Assessment Tool • All CNMI PSS 9th-12th Grade Students • Junior High and Elementary Schools • Username and Password (Lifetime Use)

12. PSS Overall High School Student Interest Clusters: • Health Science • Finance • Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources PSS Overall High School Student Skill Clusters: • Information Technology • Education and Training • Agriculture, Food and Natural Resource

13. Kagman High School Student Interest Clusters: • Health Science • Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources • Law, Public Safety, Corrections, and Security Kagman High School Student Skill Clusters: • Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources • Education and Training • Hospitality and Tourism

14. Marianas High School Student Interest Clusters: • Finance • Health Science • Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources Marianas High School Skill Clusters: • Information Technology • Education and Training • Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources

15. Rota High School Student Interest Clusters: • Health Science • Finance • Law, Public Safety, Corrections, and Security Rota High School Student Skill Clusters: • Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources • Arts, Audio/Video Technology and Communications • Health Science

16. Tinian High School Student Interest Clusters: • Health Science • Business Administration and Management • Human Services Tinian High School Student Skill Clusters: • Architecture and Construction • Education and Training • Arts, Audio/Video Technology and Communications

18. PSS CTE Standards • Basic Skills • Thinking Skills • Personal Qualities • Resources • Interpersonal • Information • Systems Technology • Health and Safety

19. PSS CTE Standards and Benchmarks • Air Conditioning (9th-12th) • Auto Body (9th-12th) • Auto Mechanics (7th-8th) (9th-12th) • Bookkeeping (9th-12) • Cabinetmaking (9th-12th) • Construction (9th-12th) • Digital Video (9th-12th) • Electricity (7th-8th) (9th-12th) • General Business (7th-8th) (9th-12th) • Home Economics (9th-12th) • Hospitality and Tourism (7th-8th) (9th-12th) • Marketing (9th-12th) • Video Production (9th-12th) • Welding (9th-12th) • Technology (K-12th) • The Arts

20. If students are asked to work hard to achieve high performance goals, their courses must: • Model the concept of quality • Produce independent learners • Develop active rather than passive participants in the learning process • Result in quality products that address real problems in life and the workplace • Confront students’ shortcomings and show them how to improve • Contain challenging assignments that require hard work in and out of the classroom • Actively involve students in productive learning throughout the class period • Require student teamwork, with teachers serving as coaches rather than as a source of all knowledge • Prepare youth for work and further education beyond high school

21. COE Initiatives • 2+2+2 Program (HS, 2 yr, then 4 yr) • Summer Health Career Program • Future Teachers Organization (Jr High Schools) • Junior Senior Seminar • Kuder Software Program • Parent Summit • School to Apprenticeship Program • STEAM Fair (STEM and Arts Fair) • Teacher Academy and Summer Teacher Program • Youth Summit/Youth Advisory Panel

22. CTE Networking Activities • Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) Convention (Nashville TN) • Micronesia Works!: Workforce Investment Summit (Guam) • 12th Micronesian Chief Executives’ Summit (Guam) • Guam Visits: • University of Guam • Guam Community College • Meeting with Saipan college students • Meeting with Mr Peter Cunningham (US Dept of Ed Asst Sec) • Machananao Elem School (MES)/JFK High School visits

23. ACTE Convention

24. Micronesia Works!: Workforce Investment Summit The Power of E3 Education Economic Development Employment

25. 12th Micronesian Chief Executives’ Summit

26. UOG, GCC, MES, and JFK Visits

27. Meeting with Saipan College Students and with Mr Peter Cunningham

28. The Power of CTE As a state, it is imperative that we: • Connect education to economic growth industries. • Include the skills employers demand in state standards, assessment, and accountability systems. • Base CTE curricula around state standards. • Improve the quality of CTE teaching (21st Century Skills/Rigor and Relevance). • Design quality-control measures to promote more rigorous programs (Career Programs). • Require high school students to declare a course of study. • Eliminate duplicated coursework between high school and postsecondary systems (Collaboration with NMC, GCC, UOG, etc).

29. Thank You 