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Technology Instructors as Advisors: Who Better?. Steve Ketchum and Arlene Stauffer Pioneer Technology Center Ponca City, Oklahoma. Think about it:. Who do you consult when making retirement investments? Who do you seek advice from when you have an unexplainable ache or pain?
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Technology Instructors as Advisors: Who Better? Steve Ketchum and Arlene Stauffer Pioneer Technology Center Ponca City, Oklahoma
Think about it: • Who do you consult when making retirement investments? • Who do you seek advice from when you have an unexplainable ache or pain? • Who do you look to for spiritual guidance during life’s trials and tribulations?
Think about it: • Who can our students look to for career insight and employment advice? • Who better than our technology center instructors?
Influencers: • Data collection • ODCTE accreditation • Technology Centers That Work (TCTW)
Influencers: • Technical skills alone aren’t enough. • Employers are asking for more. • CTE cannot afford to ignore academics. • High school diploma is critical to employment and continuing education success.
Influencers: • Meaningful relationships with sending high schools are key to optimal use of resources. • Maximum benefit to employers and students.
Influencers: • Career Tech instructors must develop a common vocabulary linking their training to that of their sending school counterparts. • We don’t have to disguise trigonometry in Machine Tool anymore.
More about TCTW: • Ten Key Practices • High Expectations • Program of Study • Appropriate Academic Studies • Quality Vocational Studies • Work-based Learning • Educators Working Together • Students Actively Engaged • Guidance • Extra Help • Keeping Score
More about TCTW: • Program of Study • Guiding students through a formalized program of study to ensure the course sequence taken aligns with and leads to identified goals.
More about TCTW: • Guidance • Involving each student and his/her parents in a guidance and advisement program that ensures the completion of an accelerated program of study with an in-depth career focus.
Benefits (to students): • Great career insight • Career information from the expert • Regular contact with the expert
Benefits (to instructors): • Improved retention • The student gains a quicker, clearer awareness of career expectations • The teacher has a better understanding of the student’s “motivation” for being in the program
Benefits (to instructors): • Better placement • The student develops a better understanding of job requirements and employer expectations • The employer is more inclined to hire a student who exhibits workplace “common sense”
Benefits (to instructors): • Better product • The student enjoys the best of all support systems • The employer enjoys a better prepared applicant pool and is likely to be a stronger CareerTech advocate
The Process: • Develop a tool • Identify the people who have information to contribute to the student’s career plan • Create a section for each entity • Get administration buy-in • Get staff buy-in
The Tool (Exterior): • Front cover—interview form • Back cover—World-of-Work Map and USDOE Career Clusters • No confidential information on outside cover • Designed to capture important data easily
The Tool (Interior): • The Counselor contributes • Front cover information • Assessment results • Interest inventory information
The Tool (Interior): • The Learning Consultants (Enhancement Center Staff) • Record data regarding academic enhancement and WorkKeys training • Track employability skills activities • Verify competency assessment and mastery • Update the information (with the student as possible) each semester
The Tool (Interior): • The Instructor • Contributes the outlined information using blank lines for specific information • Updates the information with the student at least one time per semester
The Tool (Interior): • The Instructional Director • Provides student advisement (i.e. goals, course requirements, post-completion needs, etc.) • Discusses articulation opportunities with students; updates information with the student every semester • Assists in the collection of appropriate forms and the verification and reporting of grades to the colleges
The Tool (Inserts): • Program-specific Career Plan of Study (available on the ODCTE website) “personalized” by the instructor—(Handout #1) • Articulation tracking form—(Handout #2) • Additional notes sheet
Implementation Plan: • Inservice training • Folders & boxes explained • Personalization of program ODCTE Career Plan of Study
Implementation Plan: • Personalized Career Plan of Study prepared for each program • Labeled folders in boxes delivered to instructors • Continued support from Student Services staff and administration
Expected Outcomes: • CareerTech instructors will become more knowledge about sending school requirements • Students will develop greater value for academic courses when the importance is reinforced by the CareerTech instructor
Expected Outcomes: • Duplicate enrollments in articulated classes avoided • The “checklist” process will keep things from falling through the cracks • Special needs students will be better monitored and accommodated • We will all be working smarter, not harder
Conclusion: • At PTC, we work hard at working smarter • Streamline our processes • Reduce stressors • This record keeping method continues to reinforce the good things our staff is already doing
Contact Information: Steve Ketchum 2101 N. Ash Ponca City, OK 74601 580.718.4281 stevek@pioneertech.org Arlene Stauffer 2101 N. Ash Ponca City, OK 74601 580.718.4243 arlenes@pioneertech.org Pioneer Technology Center Enhancing Lives/Securing Futures