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Rigorous Programs of Study. Manufacturing RPOS September 27, 2011. HOW DID WISCONSIN GET INVOVLED?. U.S. Department of Education Office of Vocational and Adult Education sent a RFP announcement. Great opportunity to expand Wisconsin’s work in the area of programs of study
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Rigorous Programs of Study Manufacturing RPOS September 27, 2011
HOW DID WISCONSIN GET INVOVLED? U.S. Department of Education Office of Vocational and Adult Education sent a RFP announcement. • Great opportunity to expand Wisconsin’s work in the area of programs of study • Announcement of the award was in October, 2010 • $258,400/year up to a maximum of four years
WHY MANUFACTURING • Wisconsin is home to over 9,000 manufactures • Manufacturing accounts for $47 billion to our state’s economy • The manufacturing industry ranks #2 in Wisconsin gross state product • The manufacturing industry employs 448,000 workers • Six states in total were awarded RPOS grants Arizona – Education Kansas – STEM Maryland – Automotive Montana – Construction Utah – Health Science Wisconsin - Manufacturing
WHO IS INVOLVED • The Northcentral Technical College area and four area local high schools • Wausau West • Wausau East • D.C. Everest • Spencer
WHAT IS A RPOS? • Focuses on the ten components • The ten components are currently embedded into the five areas of our current Carl Perkins application
Spencer High School • Framework element year 2 action steps: • Partnerships with Industry • to develop and communicate industry skill requirements • Teaching and learning • Develop learning communities between core academic and career & technical education • Technical Skills Assessment • Streamline manufacturing TSA document for classroom
Spencer High School Enhancement of RPOS elements • Partnerships: • -NTC - Transcripted-credit-and additional partnerships • Local Manufacturing Businesses • Guidance Counseling and Academic Advisement: • CTE team leader-pathway development • Career counseling 8th and 10th grades with parental involvement through WISCAREERS website • Grant money uses: • Local core and CTE collaboration, tours, curriculum development, consortium in-service of CTE and core
DC EVEREST • Identified areas of growth (pre/post assessments) • Technical Skills Assessments • Partnerships • Teaching and Learning Strategies • Capturing and Sharing Successes • Accuracy of Data and its Importance • Create Partnerships through a TSA or Crosswalk
EVALUATION • We will be using data to evaluate the effectivness of our work. The evaluation will using RPOS concentrators versus non-RPOS concentrators.
WAUSAU SCHOOL DISTRICT • Who has not implemented these ten components?
WAUSAU SCHOOL DISTRICT • School Counseling to RPOS • Technical Skill Attainment • Course Sequencing • Teaching and Learning • Data
ENGINEERING A BETTER FUTURE IN WISCONSIN • HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS SIMULTANEOUSLY TAKE A CHOICE OF UP TO 79 CAREER PATHWAYS. • TRANSCRIPTED CREDIT STUDENT OPPORTUNITIES IN WELDING • AAS – MECHANICAL DESIGN – NTC • BS – ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY – UW-STOUT • 100% FULL TRANSFER OF NTC STUDENT CREDITS INTO UW-STOUT’S PROGRAM. • CURRENTLY EXPLORING MULTI-TRACK CLASS OPPORTUNITIES TO ALIGN INTO RPOS.
WISCONSIN JOB REPORT ACCORDING TO WTCS SEPT ‘10-SEPT’11 • Electro-Mechanical Technology – 483 / 22 • Mechanical Design Technology – 401 / 42 • Welding – **1300 / 15 • **Transcripted Credit Course for NTC
STUDENT SUCCESS STORY • SPRING 2005 MPTC – ENGINE DESIGN ASSOC. DEGREE • FALL 2005 UW FDL –GENERAL STUDIES TOWARD ENGINEERING. • SPRING 2007 – NTC- MECHANICAL DESIGN A. D. • FALL 2009 – UW-STOUT- BS – MECHANICAL ENGINEERING. • ENGINE DESIGN DEGREE- MAINTENANCE JOB AT BRENNER TANK, AND A DEALER SERVICE REP @ MERCURY MARINE. • UW-STOUT B.S. DEGREE – JOB A MANUFACTURING ENGINEER AT G3 INDUSTRIES. – CURRENTLY.