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Maine CTE. Industry Aligned Credentialing College Articulation and Dual Enrollment * New* Bridge Plan. Programs of Study Standards Assessments Articulation Agreements Dual Credit *Something new*. About Maine CTE. 135 High Schools connecting with 27 CTE centers and regions
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Maine CTE Industry Aligned Credentialing College Articulation and Dual Enrollment * New* Bridge Plan
Programs of Study Standards Assessments Articulation Agreements Dual Credit *Something new*
About Maine CTE • 135 High Schools connecting with 27 CTE centers and regions • Mid-Coast Region • Region 8/ Mid-Coast School of Technology • 7 sending schools including 2 islands
Programs of Study • Educational plan defined for a student career pathway • Describes progression from secondary to postsecondary levels, identifying required courses and sometimes including CTE. • Maine secondary CTE schools are required to document the necessary secondary courses at both the student’s high school and CTE center/region through postsecondary options
Standards Each Maine CTE program has adopted one or more national or state-level standards tied to the needs of business and industry. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEPFA5wRkv0
Why 3rd Party Assessment and Credentialing • Assessments are used by CTE instructors as a program pre-test, as part of a formative assessment plan, and as an end-of-program exam providing students with certification. • Some assessments are industry-specific skills • CTEC Small Engines and Multi Media • Some assess general workplace skills. • CTEC Workplace Readiness Skills Pre- and Post-Test
The Guiding Principles state that each Maine student must leave school as-
Provides detailed analysis- • Consistent measure to document baseline performance and changes in achievement. • Aligned with the skills and knowledge that students acquire in CTE programs.
Dr. James R. Stone III, Ed.D., the Director of the NRCCTE at the University of Louisville • 63% of all jobs will require some college or better by 2018 • What is better…… • Credential, certificate and license • Associate Degree plus credential, certificate and license
Program College Articulation • Articulation links single secondary CTE school program to single postsecondary CTE program at a single college • Simultaneously earn secondary and postsecondary credit • Escrow credit Beal College - Anatomy Maine Community Colleges - Culinary ServSafe
Program Dual Enrollment • http://www.mccs.me.edu/colleges/colleges.html Earn college credit that is transferable, student has a college transcript…..and a college ID Examples of dual enrollment: Residential Construction: First year students CMCC - Intro to Hand & Power Tool Safety= 1 Credit 2nd Year students EMCC - BCT 151 Residential Construction + 7 Credits
*New* Bridge Plan Graduate high school with a “whole bunch of college credits” through the University of Maine Orono • Earn academic college credit while in high school- 30 credit hours!!!!! • Earn CTE college credit • 4 CTE schools piloting - 1 CTE school with 1 high school • Cohort of students will participate in career exploration and job shadowing