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Career & Tech Ed Pathways: Tool for Seamless Educational Transition

Career & Tech Ed Pathways: Tool for Seamless Educational Transition Real World Rigor and Relevance With High Skill, High Wage, and Higher Ed Opportunities For ALL Students Career Clusters: Model

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Career & Tech Ed Pathways: Tool for Seamless Educational Transition

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  1. Career & Tech Ed Pathways:Tool for Seamless Educational Transition Real World Rigor and Relevance With High Skill, High Wage, and Higher Ed Opportunities For ALL Students

  2. Career Clusters: Model • Organizes the occupations, within each cluster, into pathways that group the cluster occupations based on commonalities Career Clusters: Definition • Career Clusters represent a grouping of • occupations and broad industries based on • commonalities • Instructional + Guidance Model

  3. Career Clusters: Why? • Career-focused strategy supporting: • Educational reform • Workforce preparation • Economic prosperity

  4. What Career Clusters Do • Provide a framework that current programs slot into • Provide MORE career options for ALL learners • Provide a framework for addressing the entire world of work • Blend rigorous academic/technical preparation • Provide relevance to career planning • Offers options for ALL students to experience all aspects of industry • Facilitate/assists students with transitions • Enhances partnerships with Community/Industry/Higher Ed

  5. What Career Clusters Don’t Do • Take away current programs • Take away occupational areas • Track learners into a single job • Cause D11 to need to create new programs

  6. Career Clusters: Educational Reform • Help develop employability, academic and technical skills • Build a repertoire of skills within the broad context of a career • Enhance career guidance and transitions • Add relevance to the curriculum • Provide smoother transitions between educational levels • Provide for re-tooling, changing careers

  7. Career Clusters: Benefits • Learners are more likely to enroll in rigorous and relevant coursework • Enhanced guidance services through the cluster models’ identification of many careers and their pathways • Aligned linkages from secondary feeder programs to academic and/or technical postsecondary education • Learners better equipped for successful career transitions

  8. Career Clusters:Workforce Preparation • Driven by local business/industry and economic development • Prepare the emerging workforce • Cross-Train/re-tool the workforce • Build a flexible, “Gold Collar” workforce

  9. Career Clusters:Economic Prosperity • The career clusters framework is the educational undergirding of industry clusters. • Career clusters are industry groupings of occupations with common knowledge and skills. • Industry clusters are geographic concentrations of related businesses and industries.

  10. Transition to 21st Century Workplaces From: To: Management Functions Centralized/Separated Decentralized/Shared Professional/Technical Centralized/Specialized Decentralized/Integrated KnowledgeSome Workers All Workers Work Design Jobs Functional/Cross- functional Teams Organizational Structure Vertical Hierarchies Customer-Supplier Networks Employee Responsibility Job Task Performance Work Unit Performance Management Business Process Career Progression Vertical Vertical and Horizontal Limited Range Full Range

  11. Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources Architecture & Construction Arts, Audio/Video Technology & Communications Business, Management & Administration Education & Training Finance Government & Public Administration Health Science Hospitality & Tourism Human Services Information Technology Law, Public Safety & Security Manufacturing Marketing, Sales & Service Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics Transportation, Distribution & Logistics National Career Clusters: Titles

  12. Tips for Getting Started • Use resources to: • Enhance existing programs. • Strengthen/align programs, courses, and skill sets. • Serve as a career theme for career academies, small learning communities, schools within schools, charter schools, home schooling and magnet schools.

  13. Three Basic Implementation Stages

  14. Resources • www.okcareertech.org/iis • www.okcareertech.org/guidance • www.careerclusters.org • Preferred Product/Technical Assistance Providers • Brochures • Career Cluster Resources CD (only place to obtain printed copy of Knowledge & Skills) • Posters • Pathway Models • Plans of Study (see Plan of Study handout) • Interest Inventories/Surveys • Assessments: Workplace Readiness, Cluster Specific • Annual Career Clusters Institute • www.careervoyages.com

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