Creating A Career-Infused Adult education program

1. Creating A Career-Infused Adult education program

2. Today’s Purpose TOOLS RESOURCES KNOWLEDGE

3. Creating a career-infused Adult education program resource handbook As today’s lucky • you’ll receive: • A career infusion framework • Lots of templates, curricula, helpful URLs, and forms • Sample career-infused and IET delivery models

4. OUR GOAL Not to overwhelm you!

5. Important thing to remember ADULT EDUCATION CANNOT DO CAREER INFUSION OR INTEGRATED EDUCATION AND TRAINING ALONE. YOU NEED WORKFORCE PARTNERS!

6. THIS MORNING’S QUESTIONS • Is there a career infusion framework that can help providers organize their programs? • Are there resources already developed for framework components that local programs can use or adapt?

7. THIS AFTERNOON’S QUESTIONS • What are some delivery models to facilitate career-infused teaching and learning and IET? • How do I fund career infusion? • What is the role of the PRDE AE office in supporting career infusion?

8. Examining a career infusion framework Contextualized Instruction Career Exploration Workforce Preparation Activities Workforce Training Work-based Learning Supported by Advisors and Partnerships

9. Examining a career infusion framework Contextualized Instruction Career Exploration Page 10 Workforce Preparation Activities Workforce Training Work-based Learning Supported by Advisors and Partnerships

10. Career Awareness Where are the jobs? What training is required to get them?

11. Know your labor MARKET information http://www.mercadolaboral.pr.gov/Tablas_Estadisticas.aspx

12. Fastest growing occupations in Puerto rico

13. Required Education Career Ladder Physical Therapy Assistant Doctoral Degree Physical Therapist Requires three-year Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) degree Median Salary: $49,070 Bachelor’s Degree Requires four-year degree with specific educational prerequisites, such as classes in anatomy, physiology, biology, chemistry, and physics – to enroll in DPT. Physical Therapy Assistant Requires two-year degree from accredited program; licensure required Median Salary: $21,050 Associates Degree Physical Therapy Aide Can be trained on the job Salary: slightly above minimum wage High School

14. What do the other fastest growing jobs require?

15. https://www.careeronestop.org/default.aspx?lang=es https://www.miproximopaso.org/ https://www.onetonline.org/

16. https://www.careeronestop.org/ExploreCareers/explore-careers.aspx?&lang=eshttps://www.careeronestop.org/ExploreCareers/explore-careers.aspx?&lang=es

17. Career OnestopPhysical therapy assistant https://www.careeronestop.org/toolkit/careers/occupations/Occupation-profile.aspx?keyword=Physical%20Therapist%20Assistants&onetcode=31202100&location=PUERTO%20RICO&lang=es

18. Career awareness https://www.collegetransition.org/career-pathways/publications/ica-curriculum-guide/ GREAT RESOURCE • A curriculum guide to help adult education teachers and counselors guide adult learners through a comprehensive career planning process

19. Examining a career infusion framework Page 13 Contextualized Instruction Career Exploration Workforce Preparation Activities Workforce Training Work-based Learning Supported by Advisors and Partnerships

20. Contextualizing instruction • Use Career OneStop’s Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and/or Activities • Google “what math skills do ______ need?” • Download free occupation-specific contextualized curriculum (examples in your handbook-13) • Use occupation-specific textbooks and online materials

21. contextualizing instruction FOR iet • Confer with occupational teacher • What topics give students’ the most difficulty in your class? • Understand how students are assessed • Analyze occupational textbooks being used • Audit/observe occupational training course Contextualize math and reading skills needed in the occupational training course

22. PAGE 4 Let’s practice contextualizing! With your table partners, read the list of activities of a physical therapist assistant and answer the questions. Activity 2 Contextualized Instruction

23. A Few of the Additional Resources in Your Handbook

24. Examining a career infusion framework Contextualized Instruction Career Exploration Page 27 Workforce Preparation Activities Workforce Training Work-based Learning Supported by Advisors and Partnerships

25. It takes two Hard Skills Soft Skills Help you keep a job. Help you get a job.

26. http://cte.ed.gov/employabilityskills

27. How the Heck do I teach “Commitment” How the Heck do I teach Commitment?”

28. Connecting with one stop Are local providers accessing One Stop life skills workshops for their students? How is the connection between One Stop and AE?

29. Preparing Workers Sample lesson Page 30 North Carolina Employability Skills Tool Kit SKILLS TO PAY THE BILLS Sample lesson Page 32 http://www.nc-net.info/employability.php https://www.dol.gov/odep/topics/youth/softskills/softskills.pdf

30. PAGE 7 SITUATION 1: SAYING HELLO OR GOODBYE Friends: ____________________________________________________________________________Family: ____________________________________________________________________________ Professional: ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­____________________________________________________________________________ Activity 3 Code Switching

32. Examining a career infusion framework Contextualized Instruction Career Exploration Workforce Preparation Activities Workforce Training Work-based Learning Supported by Advisors and Partnerships

33. WORKFORCE TRAINING CHOOSE WISELY! • High-demand • Short-term if possible (16 weeks or less) • Co-enroll in AE and job training • Part of a career pathway • Show educational and career ladders • Show income growth • Find supportive occupational deans and faculty

34. Need to visually show our students their career options Example: Advanced Manufacturing Career Paths

35. With your table partners, discuss the following questions: Who are your primary job training providers?Do they offer short-term training ( 16 weeks or less)?Do they understand WIOA and/or career pathways?Do local AE providers have relationships with job training providers in their areas?What role can you play in helping to bridge connections between AE and training providers? PAGE 8 Activity 4 Knowing Your Training Providers

36. Examining a career infusion framework Contextualized Instruction Career Exploration Workforce Preparation Activities Workforce Training Page 38 Work-based Learning Supported by Advisors and Partnerships

37. Work-based Learning Employer Brochure Page 39 Student Application Page 41 Optional component but great impact on student retention! Gives students a chance to practice their soft skills and build their resumes Range from 6 – 20 hours/week Paid or unpaid – mostly unpaid

38. Work-based Learning MOU – Page 42 How can local programs do it? Partner with other agencies Vocational Rehabilitation Community-based organizations Social service agencies Partner with their own agency! Create unpaid internships for AE students Community service projects - AE students like to “give back”

39. https://www.jff.org/resources/page/1/work-based-learning/ GREAT RESOURCE

40. Advisors/ Navigators

41. Advisors/NAVIGATORS • Can make or break your program! • Choose your staffing priorities! • Hire carefully! • Train them well! • CareerOneStop Resource***** • https://www.careeronestop.org/ResourcesFor/CareerAdvisor/career-advisor.aspx?lang=es

42. GREAT RESOURCES http://www.collegetransition.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/NavigatorManual-July2015.pdf https://www.cccs.edu/wp-content/uploads/documents/NavManual.pdf

43. partnerships Whom do you consider your most important partners in a career-infused program?

44. Partnerships – a few examples

45. Partnerships – a few examples

46. Partnership SurveyPage 59

47. Delivery options for career infusion

48. Step #1 Know your student population.

50. What percent of your students are functioning at the… ABE level? ASE level? ESL level? Let’s look at some options for different student levels from very simple to more complex.